‘The Night Agent's Gabriel Basso drops bombshell about his stunts

Gabriel Basso, who started his career as a child star, recently revealed his surprising reason for doing his own stunts.

Before season 2 of the conspiracy thriller series The Night Agent returns, the 30-year-old talked about playing FBI agent Peter Sutherland on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

He shared, “I think that can kind of get misconstrued into the world of, like, I do it because I want to say I can do it, and it’s really not about that. To me, it’s about audience immersion.”

The Hillbilly Elegy actor added, “I don’t want the audiences watching the show, and then right as I’m about to get hit or hip tossed or thrown on my back, you know. I feel like it’s a lie. I enjoy acting; I don’t like lying. There’s just a difference.”

Basso went on to note that “And for the sake of audience immersion, for the sake of believability, they like Peter [and] to watch him take hits is important, I feel like. And if that requires me to get tossed into a wall, then fine. It’s not the end of the world.”

Notably, the Super 8 star had to renew his skydiving certification after Netflix suggested it.

Shedding light on this, he stated, “They brought it up as an idea, and then I was like, ‘Oh, I already skydive. I’ll do it.’ But then insurance called and was like, ‘Yeah, stop it.’”

For the unversed, The Night Agent, created by Shawn Ryan and based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, depicts Basso’s Agent Sutherland as he gets involved in a conspiracy about a mole in the U.S. government.

In season 2, Peter teams up with cybersecurity expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan) to try to stop a terrorist attack in Manhattan.

It is pertinent to mention that The Night Agent season 2 is set to be released on Netflix on January 23, 2025.