Director April Wright: “They always say, once a stuntwoman, always a stuntwoman and it’s absolutely true.”
13TH OCTOBER 2020 BY SARAH CARTLAND
“To know [women did these stunts] 100 and something years ago erases the question of ‘can they do it now?’ Well of course they can do it now. Look at what they did back then.” April Wright
Women have been jumping from moving motorbikes onto moving trains for our movie pleasure since the 1910s. April Wright’s new documentary traces the history of stuntwomen in films, and the hand they’ve been dealt by Hollywood, from then to the present day – with stuntwomen working today interviewing some of the extraordinary pioneers from the 1960s and ’70s.
I talked to April over Zoom about silent movie stunts, the stories older women carry with them, and having to fight the same battles over again…