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Interview: Jaime Jones - Stunt Coordinator

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  Stunts

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As the stunt coordinator for season 1 of Breakout Kings, Jaime Jones was responsible for making sure our cops and cons stayed safe even if it meant stunt doubling as one of the prison guards. From busting vehicles through brick walls to falling out 80-foot windows, Jaime’s vision for choreographing and planning stunt sequences throughout the season was mind blowing.

What does your job entail?

As a stunt coordinator on a series like this, I’ll read the script, break down all the stunts, pull out all the stunts, and then figure out in discussion with the director how we would go about doing these, what we would need as far as manpower, doubles, maybe a stunt actor, and then whatever equipment. Then we design and create the stunt to suit them and make adjustments to make it fit the story.

Who have you stunted for over the years?

Well, The Hulk. I was the good hulk--Ed Norton. I also doubled as Don Johnson and Bob Dylan in Old School.

What is the most dangerous stunt you had to perform?

Probably high falls, like something where I go out an 80-foot window backwards because you can’t look at the airbag and in that case I had to be dead already. I got shot, which knocked me out the window. It’s harder to fall backwards or any way without moving, because you can’t look over your shoulder to [see] the airbags. You have to just look at where you left from and try to keep your head up so that you don’t land upside down on your head.

What about the coolest stunt?

We built a pipe ramp, which is a steel bar and a whole bunch of roll cage on the front of my big, old Cadillac. Then I rammed another car from behind and I was going 95 miles an hour and the car in front of me was going about 20 miles an hour and I came up and rammed him from behind with this bar which sent his car 20 feet in the air, spinning and rolling, and I drove under him in a way and kept going.

Wow, that's insane! How about on Breakout Kings?

We did some fire stuff on this episode (“Collected”)…the guy’s going to climb up some pipes through the prison to escape. The next one (“There Are Rules”) is actually pretty cool with lots of gunfire {and} shooting people in a car, which is always good because you’re going to blow out the windows and all that.

Now the only person I can see you possibly doubling up for on the cast is Jimmi Simpson.

Yeah, doubling wise I play the part of a guard who gets shot and crashes the truck and I also double a couple of guest people.

Of the six members of the cast, who is the least willing to do stunts?

You know what? Everybody’s sort of been cool with it-- it’s more like me being more willing to suggest a stunt double before it is them saying that they want one--even when Laz Alonso hurt a calf muscle, it wasn’t even a stunt. He was just running across a catwalk and it was minus 15 or something--we had to get him shot in the next episode (“Steaks” ) and give him a little cane to justify why he was limping, because it took a couple of weeks for it to go away.

Now, is there a stunt you were asked to set up this season that totally blew you away?

The stunt I like the best was in episode 12, (“There Are Rules”) where we broke into prison to get out some guys with a transport truck driving through a brick wall. We had this big rig with a trailer on the back and we literally drove full speed through the brick wall. There were people on the other side of the brick wall who had to jump out of the way and we pulled right up to the bad guy and they all hopped in and the back tailgate of the trailer dropped and the SUV pulled out and took off with all the bad guys in it.

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