Jake Gyllenhaal on Improvising Stunts in ‘Ambulance’: ‘You Make a Michael Bay Movie to Hang Out of a Moving Vehicle’
variety.comWilson Chapman editorIn Michael Bay’s new action thriller “Ambulance,” Jake Gyllenhaal plays career criminal Danny Sharp.
One of the highlights of the film is an intense stunt where Gyllenhaal hangs outside the door of the titular vehicle, shooting a gun while helicopters chase him, his adopted brother Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and their hostages — EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González) and a patient — as they speed along the bank of the Los Angeles River.At the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday night, Gyllenhaal revealed that the scene wasn’t in the original script.
Instead, Bay came up with the idea the night of filming.“I had no idea,” Gyllenhaal told Variety on the red carpet outside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. “We were on our way home, Yahya was driving the ambulance.
We were almost finished with our day, and we were driving to get back into our civilian clothes, out of our character’s clothes.
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