Meet the Stunt Coordinator Who Keeps HBO’s ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Rough and Tumble
thewrap.comcomedy entries are here to play, pushing their genre trappings even further, and HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” is no exception.
One wouldn’t expect a comic series concentrating on a huckster family of evangelists to contain unleashed hand grenades, people jumping through glass windows, men running around on fire or the omnipresence of motorcycle ninjas, but welcome to fertile imagination of creator and star Danny McBride.“Danny [and everyone] really love to jump in,” Emmy-nominated John Copeman says. “Adam [DeVine] was incredible with the wire work in his scenes [in the human pyramid sequence].
He must have done it before because when we told him it would take a few hours to set up, he said, ‘If we’re not done in 30 minutes, there’s something wrong with the rigging.’ And he dialed it in in, like, 15 minutes.”Even veteran cast members like John Goodman, who plays the Gemstone patriarch, are down to give their all in this regard, even despite the potential for unexpected outcomes. “It was around 2 a.m., and Mr.
Goodman had already had kind of a long day, and he wasn’t padded in his big fight scene because he was doing most of the beating”, Copeman says. “But he took a head snap, and just reacted so heavily that his feet slipped.
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