One of the big reasons film productions are able to have such intense and dangerous stunts is because they buy large insurance policies from specialty insurers. Some of these insurers include Movie Insure, CSI Coverage, EQ Group and Zeboray. According to the Insurance Information Network of California (IINC) the four basic film insurance products are “cast insurance, errors and Omissions policies, general production insurance and completion bonding.”
Church was asked about how he went about building his character and he spoke about a stunt he had to do. The stunt involved him being on a tether and trying to avoid getting hit by a “de-ionizer” or “molecular accelerator” that “was built off of this Bell helicopter turbo engine.” I’m not sure exactly what the stunt entailed but he apparently rehearsed for six hours and was only allowed one shot at it by the insurance company.
“Like I said, the insurance company – believe me there was a phalanx of representatives there that day – would only allow me to do it one time.”
When it comes to the actual actors doing stunts on a movie set the insurance companies are rightfully freaked out about injuries or worse. Guys like Jackie Chan must drive insurers crazy. According to IINC the average daily budget of a film set is $300,000, therefore leaving producers little room for mishaps to stall production.
Does anyone know the stunt Church is talking about?
