Reacher Star Alan Ritchson Stole Jason Momoa’s Secret Weapon While Filming Fast X

“Fast X” is one of the worst “Fast & Furious” movies. It commits the cardinal sin of forgetting that this is a franchise about family, dividing the team for most of the runtime, and treating most of the characters like sidekicks. It simultaneously brings back enough characters that death no longer makes sense, while attempting to build emotional tension by leaving most of the team on the brink of death. It’s also convoluted and too long.

And yet, there is something that adds a net positive to the franchise: Jason Momoa’s Dante, one of the best villains in the entire “Fast & Furious” franchise. He’s a stylish, unhinged, and very dangerous villain who feels like the franchise’s answer to Joker. Dante is unlike anything we’ve seen before, but something inevitable. His action scenes are matched only by moments of gleeful chaos – like giving manicures to the corpses of dead henchmen. He’s the secret weapon of “Fast

During an interview with Wired, Ritchson (who plays Agent Aimes) said he stole something crucial to Momoa’s performance: his stunt double, Ryan Tarran.

“I stole it from Momoa in ‘Fast.’ moved on to stunt coordination. So now we design fights together. »

Ryan Tarran has been a secret weapon for “Reacher,” especially in Season 3, which is easily the best the show has ever been — full of intrigue, memorable characters, interesting villains and badass action.

Unfortunately, this was also a season where, due to Ritchson’s insistence on performing his own stunts, the actor was seriously injured on several occasions. The worst happened during Reacher’s big fight with Paulie (Olivier Richters), aka Bigger Reacher. In the climactic fight, we see Paulie smash Reacher through a table onto the floor of a barn. Ritchson decided to do the stunt himself to allow the camera to stay on his face the entire time. Tarran and the stunt team urged him not to do it, fearing he would hurt himself. Ritchson did it anyway, and of course he got hurt.

“I was picked up and we worked on the camera thing a few times and he hit me so hard through the table that I went through him into the seventh circle of hell. And I woke up a day and a half later. When I came back, I had to tell my kids that I felt good, because they were on set, and I didn’t want them to think that Dad died and everything wasn’t going to be okay. They were the worst. minutes of my life. “

So not only did Ritchson steal Momoa’s biggest asset during “Fast X,” he did so only to then contradict his safety suggestions and perform dangerous stunts for our entertainment. Now, this is a very Reacher decision.