How Happy Valley bosses hired Hollywood movie stuntman for fiery final scene – and made him do it TWICE
thesun.co.ukHAPPY VALLEY bosses hired a Hollywood movie stuntman to set himself alight for the BBC1 show's fiery final scene - and made him do it TWICE.
Leo Woodruff was tasked with being James Norton's body double as his character, villain Tommy Lee Royce, was seen setting himself on fire with petrol and matches in Sunday night's show.
But it was all in a day's work for the expert, who's performed dangerous feats in Marvel and Batman films as well as the most recent James Bond movie, No Time To Die.
A TV insider said: "The Happy Valley producers wanted to deliver as sensational and realistic a final scene as possible and though the first moments when Tommy sets himself alight are done using computer generated imagery, the rest was real. "The moment where he is seen standing up and writhing around in agony as the flames take hold is where Leo really was set alight. "He was wearing specialist protective clothing and gel on any areas of exposed skin.
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