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Off The Record: Stunt Man Jeremy Marinas (Part 2)

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0:00 did you teach Will Smith this yeah yeah did he use your slap moves if you notice right it it would have sold from any angle notice that was nobody notices that he did a 540 after [Music] that welcome back to another sick ass part two episode of getting to know Jeremy over here with off the Record here's the thing man uh we were so ████ fascinated cuz all of us are little boys who like grew up loving people like Jackie Channon stuff so you being here like I haven't seen the room this excited in a long time where we're just like tell us more ████ what else happened you see the movie right like this is what we you watch the movie this is what you fall in love with but the ████ like depth behind of what it takes like that's your world so it's cool till we get to go like what's behind there so just to give some fans a

0:50 quick catch up you were a stunt coordinator on John Wick I was a fight coordinator a fight coordinator on John Wick he gives like a really quick just spicy little like list of credits of things you've done that you've been proud of let know what it is John Wick for I just did I just got to do um Silent Night with John wo that should be coming out soon what what is that give us the DS give us the Deets technically are we allowed I can't talk about it we're on is that a Christmas movie oh you're on strike yeah oh ████ this is coming out in December oh wait that's right is it I don't know I've just made that no no we don't know if it'll ever come out so I mean for me like the the ones that are proud are not always cuz they're great movies either it's just things like I got to work with John then I did Gemini man with Ang Lee that's cool dope well did it do great but I got to Will Smith yeah yeah yeah um dang did

1:42 you teach Will Smith this yeah yeah did he use your slap moves if you notice right it it would have sold from any angle notice that it was nobody notices that he did a 540 after that's true it was caught on all cameras no my I got to do one of the Avengers so I think I did Civil War that's cool I got to do Venom I got to doam uh Ninja Turtles was my favorite cuz that's cool it was me anise Danny Graham Jackson Fel John Vera JoJo usio like which Ninja Turtles um the the first one of the animated one the the first one with the live action Michael B one yeah the one where they like suddenly look all mature and like ████ the scary Turtles Turtles the weird ones but like for us we were just like in map

2:34 suits with the with a map turtle back and we're just like which Turtle were you so cool I was Michelangelo you mangelo yeah yeah so that was that was one of my favorite cuz you know we just got to be in New York and our best friends doing Turtle ████ yeah it was dream dream come true right that's ████ cool um that's ████ cool man yeah and then I got to fight Scott Atkins on another like really low which one low lowbudget film that he did called close range but then the director was Isaac Florentine who did the original Power Rangers so like a lot of the projects were like just cool to do because of like the people I got to meet and work it's almost like like dream teams and does Almost Doesn't Matter What the project is just the dream te exactly exactly what was your favorite final product that actually that came out probably John MC that's cool that

3:25 ████ was amazing that ████ was so ████ cool to see I actually got to watch wake four with Jeremy at Burbank like got a Premiere or n it was just we went to go to a like a regular show I think they wanted to do some like o thing we end up just watching the movie we're like oh my God Jeremy the whole time Nick Nick Nick this is me this is me no honestly I would be I would Nick the whole time is that you is that you is that you Jeremy is that you did that hurt did that hurt I'm just talking hella loud but there was this one scene where he does this crazy really cool j Jitsu move and I'm like oh I'm like the only one ████ oh because you know what it is and Jeremy's like yeah what you think what you think that was pretty ████ cool or they like we'll see Jeremy on screen we're like oh ████ that's him I'm like babe just Jeremy we were watching it with Jeremy she's like yeah okay I got it and she's like oh my God so many gunshots I think I was like

4:15 drunk on mules too so I was just acting like an idiot but it was so fun though I like the idea of you looking out for Jiu-Jitsu based moves and then being excited but everything else you're like he Incorporated the rear naked choke I was like I've never seen it done like that before but no honestly for sure though it's like it's how do you make a Kimura look dope was that actual question like these moves are like tons of people that specialize in that stuff too well you know Dave Camaro yeah he's the ████ Legend he was in it with us he was helping um train Keanu but he's like the king of he's the arm collector like he does a really cool uh version where if you know a lot of people they sit back and they lean back on their hand when they're fighting open guard and you're if you're standing and he does like a dive roll over the person

5:06 and all almost always people try to like time you going back but you can dive roll over the arm and steal the kamora so by the time your back hits you turn back into them and then you chicken wing them like you mount their head very aesthetically pleasing but it's one of my favorite ones to do and then for camera my f one of my favorite curas to do is like like if they take your back and you do the Cur from in the front and then you turn into them and you get them like you throw them from a cur right like those are fun that's so cool anytime their legs go overhead that's cool oh yeah and they you see the two legs flip in the air what's like a a stunt that you had to get ready for that was the most like ████ thing that you've ever been most nervous about or had to do the most prep for or just the most dangerous okay there's something I did on my first movie your first movie oh ████ all called Expendables right oh

5:58 ████ ████ first movie that was the first movie and what was funny was I was getting ready for Tron with anise and then the director wanted like everybody over 6 foot so Chad looks at me he's sorry and I was like he's like you can come to Expendables with me though it's like all right and Chad was like literally in the airport going there he was like he's like you know you're a stunt man now don't think you're going to be like a famous actor you're going to be I'm going to try to kill you and you try to survive that was like what he said and I was like ████ dude he he threw me in the mix like obviously he just scaring me but he threw me in the mix and there was this one day where I was I had to do a ratchet like a 20 foot ratchet which is like um a Pneumatic like like um like a cable that drags you or something yeah it's it's got like um I can't talk right

6:49 now don't you press a button it you press a button and it's got like you could set the pounds of force like it just jerks you across yeah and it jerks you so you don't have a guy pulling you so it's faster all mechanical yeah and you get a lot more snap off the top so like like a chiropractor yeah it sucks and what sucks is the opposite when you do it like you just okay well where am I supposed to land and I mean you you do a bunch of stuff to to get ready for it and you know where you're going to land but when you go 3 2 1 go like there's no lag you're like you're there and then you're there depending on how fast you go so I had to do that and then there was a scene where I had to do um five deaths in one but we were shooting um like uh infrared like thermal goggles

7:39 and I had to fight Randy Couture was a different scene and then um I remember the the changing room was like A4 mile away so I was like running and halfway through on the walkie they're like Jeremy Chad's looking for you on set I'm like ████ so I I take off my ████ and I run back and I I remember walking in a set and it was like this uh cargo ship for pirates like sman Pirates and the whole thing is like they're infiltrating this this ship and I look up and Chad is like on the set of stairs that kind of it's like those metal graded stairs on a ship yeah and it goes like that and he's like three of three of those up three flights of stairs three flights that like the ones that go up in a square and he's just like standing there like this

8:29 and I'm like like oh ████ so I start walking up and I'm looking around and I'm brand new to the the stunt industry and there's like 60 stunt guys oh sh and I walk up and he goes um he goes I want you to run up these stairs Terry Crew is going to shoot you with a shotgun I want you to do over the railing and the railing was like up to here cuz it was like a cargo ship so it was like that instead of being down here and since I'm running I can't just like put my foot on a platform to prep yeah it's like I want you to take the shot do a Arabian which is like a a half twisting backflip and then I want you to land on that cargo box and I look down the cargo box like 8 feet like okay no problem I look at it and the first thing is when I walk out of the shower I'm don't slip don't slip

9:19 Ser guys walking same arm same leg too ████ chameleon speed so I'm 19 the the it's metal grades right so like one of my older my my uncle Danny Hernandez he's like hey youngster I was like what's up he goes look at this thing he's showing me something so if you go over the railing um the platforms that you walk on have like metal um metal edges oh ████ he go we should pad that up and I was like yeah I didn't even think about it cuz he was like when you go over rails and you topple over everybody thinks you just shoot out but if you put your hip just it's like a judo throw it just becomes a fulro oh so your head just goes like that so in my head I'm like now I could be hitting my head on a metal grate and the big rule in stuns is like wherever

10:09 you put the pads is where you don't land like you know if you do a car hit and you put all your pads on you always injure the one part you don't have pads so I'm like I'm going to ████ this up somehow so I do a couple of these right and it's just 8ft fall so it's not a big deal that's crazy to say and cuz that's already from what like ceiling like this right eight dude that's awful what are you talking about it was like it was to a cargo box like a shipping container I don't care dude able to hide a mat on there right so we put a mat there is it like a nice bed mattress or like no it's like a gymnastics M that's nauy it's like this but that wasn't the hard part though so I was like after the whole day of like doing all these crazy stunts I'm rushed into this part he's like okay do this I tried a couple times

10:59 maybe two or three times and I'm watching all the like the legendary stump people that are there and I'm like don't ████ this up don't ████ this up and then they're okay let's shoot and then I hear Jeremy so I come back behind Monitor and um Hank Amos is like hey youngster Chad doesn't think you can do this but I have $300 betting that you can and I was like what he goes instead of landing on the cargo box I want you to chip off the cargo box which was like it was another 12T from the floor what the ████ and then he was I want you to chip off of it do like a Hong Kong twist and then if you can try to clip that box to slow yourself down and then hit the concrete what the ████ so it was 12 ft from the the container

11:50 to the um to another small like 4 foot cargo box and then they were like and then hit the deck and they were like but if you miss cuz it it was 4T wide by 4T tall they're like if you miss you just land 12T to concrete so try not to miss try just try and I was like I could do it and he was like I thought you could I thought you could and in my head I'm like oh I'm going to get ████ up like oh ████ I was like would you like me to rehearse it and Chad looks at me like you ████ idiot why would you rehearse that you just get up there oh my God but the thing is like a lot of times when you do WI gags or car hits if you can like stand in the spot where it's going to happen then you just like sit there and pray I had to run up the stairs and hit a mark anything happens so they're

12:40 shooting you from the stairs part yeah you have so much pressure on you right now you got 300 bucks on it yeah and Chad was like they're like okay everybody go to one so I'm like at number one and then Chad goes Jeremy and I look over and he was don't ████ it up and it's like the worst thing to hear and he just walks away dude and all of this is happening within like 20 minutes cuz you're on set and everybody's like go go go go go like and I'm 19 first movie just like this is crazy is this a little bit you said there's like 60 other legendary stuntman there but they're pulling like the 19-year-old who's like fresh off into this industry like some hazing sh yeah just a little bit like that like it could have almost used anybody who's sick as ████ or maybe they don't even want to do it well the the older guys yeah I mean the older guys were like

13:31 older and they're like they don't want to get ████ up anymore like let a young guy do it and then you look at the young guys you go who can do it and like this was my my test cuz you know we grew up in the YouTube like genre where everybody's trying to be a stun person to be cool to become an actor but back then they were like don't promote yourself you're a stun person your job is to make the actor look good M so it's not like I could just go around talking about this ████ and like putting it out there and and um this isn't a talk show yeah so so sure enough like 3 2 one action I run up and I just remember looking up and Terry Cruz is like Bove and I go and I go and it happened in slowmo cuz I I'm watching the metal great and I'm going I'm glad we put a pad there and I'm like oh I should probably ditch my gun so I like Dro my gun but

14:22 I'm doing this flip and like this is all happening like that wow I throw my gun I clip and I remember feeling the corner of my back like this and I go that was perfect and like I just start spinning and I'm like where's the Box where's the box I see the box and I just try to like get whatever I could on it oh my God hit the box I slowed myself down hit the concrete and I went that wasn't that bad in the scene everybody's running in my God and one of the old school guys I'm playing dead right and one of the old school guys runs up and he's shooting and he looks down he goes nice one youngster Stomps on my chest that's what hurt the most why did he do that he was Hing me he's like nice one youngster Wham just takes off military and I'm

15:16 like you don't want to like you don't want to have to go again right cuz they're like oh the dead guy was alive so like that's true ████ I didn't think about that cuz at the last one if he goes ow and then they're like cut do it again holy ████ ow why you do that and then that was like one of those like cuz the you know the the the toxic masculinity guys back in the day who were like you know you have to just man up yeah they they you know after that show they were like I think I think this is where you become a man like you're a man now though that's like you place in like yeah yeah it was cooling crazy dude that's earning it though man that's earning it D the extra

16:07 stomp at the end are you now the stomper on set yeah I like to do the thing where if you're doing background fighting like we were in Hawaii last year on a Mamoa project and all the new people are there they're like trying to prove themselves and we'd be like fighting with axes or something and they go 3 two I go hey they're what I take their weapon I lob it across the set and we're on like lava rocks just lob it action I'm like he like but we're in like the Deep background what you just do funny ████ like that it's hell yeah we have a lot of fun man that's so funny are there um cuz looking at my son now since he was a kid I think he was he'd like to get beat up like I have videos of him two or three just like like he's like like

16:59 touch me Papa and I touch him goes throws himself against the couch are there kids stunt programs I don't know if there's stunt programs like I think nobody wants to deal with that liability but there nightmare you should start it start it dude yeah I I mean kid stun kid St get lean get strong get ████ up I just want it's good to learn how to face your fears when you don't have a lot of fears yet right and when you're a kid so you get the you know when you're an adult and you're like I don't want to do that like you can get rid of that really fast and you can confidently right like the most the most dangerous guys to fight are the guys who got their asses kicked and survived right so like the people who are like 30 years old and they're like I grew up in South Central and there were stabbings and shootings all the time like you can't hurt that guy right so in

17:52 this world that we live in where we're all protecting our kids like where do they get to learn how to face that adrenaline and then control it yeah like there's not unless there you know parkour for me I always say like Free Runners are the the best martial arts like artists these days because they don't just stand behind their their their martial arts and go oh yeah I could do this and I could poke your eyes out could poke your eyes out but like I don't want to go to jail so I can't really show you right yeah I want to go to jail I've gotten a bunch of those martial artists who are scared to do stunts cuz they're I'm like I thought you control your body and you control your emotions but then you get a freerunner who like actively looks down and sees like 50 stories and they go I'm going to be fine and then they do the dangerous stunt and then they're alive

18:42 right yeah so when I have them on set they're like everything's easy and you're like oh this is how it should be and nobody's like like freaking out but then you do get some martial artists who are not really that great at stunts we should do more par fights and stunts are two different things yeah very scary yeah like and and like I'm kind of one of the guys that like gets to float and do everything so so it's really it's really fun I don't drive as much I like riding my motorcycle but I don't that's one thing I won't ████ with because not driving motorcycle riding like like like motorcycle stunts like subin like crazy guy yeah like I'm learning I can learn wheelies and stuff like that like I can get it up but I won't I won't I can't even get it up he's talking about his penis yeah I got that out of the stunt

19:33 drivers who's the scariest Asians or non-asians stunt drivers yeah yeah who the scares to work with like you have a St and you see an Asian driver you're like no let uh F Asian Grand swap them out real quick no you know what dude in the states for the most part I know most of the people in the states and they're like they're pretty pretty good it's when you go to a different country and you're like in Bulgaria or some ████ and they're like this is is uh this is whoever he's best drifter in Bulgaria and you're like what and you're when you're meeting locals in places that you never heard of people and they don't have a reputation so you don't know how they're going to at least they don't we don't know them but they might have a reputation in wherever they're from so you just got to be like ████ it I just met you and they're just going to hit me in a car well see I won't do it I won't do that ah yeah those are the things I

20:23 say no to cuz it's like backyard wrestlers like you don't know he might be number one in my country but then their movie film is like everybody died yeah it's Undisputed for everybody died on only two Stu men died he's number one cuz the other last month last month I like the idea of the kid stunt thing though yeah stunt for kid ever since he was a kid he always liked the even in Jiu-Jitsu class you know when they they teach a move right he wants to be on the receiving end always so when they go like most kids they go I want to do the throw he's already like throw me and he just is he like Wim Blow from kungpow yes Wim Wim I'm bleeding that makes me the Victor do you think it's a good idea to to like make an action movie where every time there's fights when it when the guy

21:13 gets hit it cuts to a kid getting hit a stunt kid just for the stuns stunt kid just wow it's jaw Wick just the stuns though bringing the kid bringing the kid baby in a suit bringing the stun kid that actually actually that' be hilarious be so cute just do a YouTube like short like that's that's video bwan just murdering kids it's like it's like uh Anchor Man when he keeps punching the babies yeah or Step Brothers just kidding news careful boys is a brand just kidding news is the man of smart people the people of just kidding news careful boys they are very smart just kiding news the number one forcast in the world

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