Exclusive: Last November, as veteran stunt driver Olivia Summers was leaving a production meeting, a commercial producer took her aside and said: “I didn’t realize there were female drivers. We just put a guy in a wig for a job.” It’s a practice known as “wigging,” in which stuntmen don wigs and dresses to double for actresses.
SAG-AFTRA said two years ago that “wigging a male stunt performer to double for a female performer is not acceptable and this should not happen again.” And yet, the practice persists. So Summers, who doubled for Kristen Wiig in a memorable stunt driving scene in Bridesmaids (see the scene below), decided then and there to do something about it.
“I left the building and walked to my car,” she recalled. “My insides were burning with mixed emotions of frustration and defeat. I got in my car and the minute I turned the key I thought,...
SAG-AFTRA said two years ago that “wigging a male stunt performer to double for a female performer is not acceptable and this should not happen again.” And yet, the practice persists. So Summers, who doubled for Kristen Wiig in a memorable stunt driving scene in Bridesmaids (see the scene below), decided then and there to do something about it.
“I left the building and walked to my car,” she recalled. “My insides were burning with mixed emotions of frustration and defeat. I got in my car and the minute I turned the key I thought,...
- 7/9/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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