{"id":34933,"date":"2021-08-08T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/willing-to-be-set-on-fire-or-jump-off-tall-buildings-new-zealand-needs-more-stunt-people"},"modified":"2021-08-08T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T23:00:05","slug":"willing-to-be-set-on-fire-or-jump-off-tall-buildings-new-zealand-needs-more-stunt-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34933","title":{"rendered":"Willing to be set on fire or jump off tall buildings? New Zealand needs more stunt people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic New Zealand has become a safe haven for international film studios, creating a surge in demand for \u2018stunties\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Burrowed in a beige building block in Auckland\u2019s industrial east, a neat line of stunt hopefuls wait their turn to take their first step on an \u201cair ram\u201d. With enough power to flip a full sized car, the menacing looking metal pedal is designed to vault the \u201cstunties\u201d high into the air, as if tossed from an exploding building.<\/p>\n<p>Standing by and keeping a watchful eye, Dayna Grant points up to the rafters of the converted warehouse at least 10 metres above, fondly remembering a time she was tossed up high enough to touch the ceiling. But today\u2019s NZ Stunt School class of ex-circus performers, working stunt people, and retirees, won\u2019t come close to that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/willing-to-be-set-on-fire-or-jump-off-tall-buildings-new-zealand-needs-more-stunt-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic New Zealand has become a safe haven for international film studios, creating a surge in demand for \u2018stunties\u2019Burrowed in a beige building block in Auckland\u2019s industrial east, a neat line of stunt hopefuls wait their turn to take the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,2274,506,56,521,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-entertainment-tv","category-film-industry","category-new-zealand","category-television-industry","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34934,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933\/revisions\/34934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}