The success of action movies like Wonder Woman and television shows like Wandavision show that viewers like seeing women fighting, flying and jumping. Stunt performers often take the place of famous male and female actors in these action films so the big stars do not get hurt. At one point, movie producers would commonly use stuntmen wearing hairpieces, or wigs, to perform these actions for female actors. The practice began to change in 2017 when an American stuntwoman, Deven MacNair, started a discrimination complaint. She said a producer had used a stuntman to perform a stunt for a female actor on a set she was working on. Lucas Dollfus is the director of Campus Univers Cascade, or CUC, in northeastern France. He told the Reuters news agency, “We don’t need wigs anymore. The women are badass in any case.” CUC calls itself the world’s biggest stunt school. About a third of the students at the school are women like Valeriane Michelini. Once trained as a dancer, Michelini is now training to fight, crash through glass windows and jump out of helicopters at CUC. She said fighting has a different kind of movement than dancing. I'm used to thriving in a graceful and feminine world, the 29-year-old said. And now, I'm in quite the opposite. April Wright makes films that tell stories about real life, called documentaries. Her film Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story came out in 2020. She spent many hours talking with women who do stunts in Hollywood, including those who started in the 1960s and 1970s. “Generally, women are holding their own, and getting most of these opportunities,” Wright said. Wright said stuntwomen do not usually go to a stunt school. They often find work by learning from or meeting people in the industry. Some make videos on YouTube or TikTok to show their skills. “Sometimes stunts run in families,” Wright said. “Not every stunt woman had that, but a lot of them had fathers that helped them develop the skills.”
Title: Help Wanted: Stunt Women for Hollywood
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5134/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Help Wanted: Stunt Women for Hollywood' data-article-id='5671'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='14729'>The success of action movies like Wonder Woman and television shows like Wandavision show that viewers like seeing women fighting, flying and jumping.</span> <span data-start-time='14729' data-end-time='26917'>Stunt performers often take the place of famous male and female actors in these action films so the big stars do not get hurt. </span> <span data-start-time='26917' data-end-time='40771'>At one point, movie producers would commonly use stuntmen wearing hairpieces, or wigs, to perform these actions for female actors.</span> <span data-start-time='40771' data-end-time='52667'>The practice began to change in 2017 when an American stuntwoman, Deven MacNair, started a discrimination complaint. </span> <span data-start-time='52667' data-end-time='63188'>She said a producer had used a stuntman to perform a stunt for a female actor on a set she was working on.</span> <span data-start-time='63188' data-end-time='73104'>Lucas Dollfus is the director of Campus Univers Cascade, or CUC, in northeastern France. </span> <span data-start-time='73104' data-end-time='78792'>He told the Reuters news agency, “We don’t need wigs anymore. </span> <span data-start-time='78792' data-end-time='82979'>The women are badass in any case.”</span> <span data-start-time='82979' data-end-time='89125'>CUC calls itself the world’s biggest stunt school. </span> <span data-start-time='89125' data-end-time='95104'>About a third of the students at the school are women like Valeriane Michelini. </span> <span data-start-time='95104' data-end-time='107813'>Once trained as a dancer, Michelini is now training to fight, crash through glass windows and jump out of helicopters at CUC. </span> <span data-start-time='107813' data-end-time='113646'>She said fighting has a different kind of movement than dancing.</span> <span data-start-time='113646' data-end-time='120688'>I'm used to thriving in a graceful and feminine world, the 29-year-old said. </span> <span data-start-time='120688' data-end-time='124354'>And now, I'm in quite the opposite.</span> <span data-start-time='124354' data-end-time='132396'>April Wright makes films that tell stories about real life, called documentaries. </span> <span data-start-time='132396' data-end-time='139958'>Her film Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story came out in 2020.</span> <span data-start-time='139958' data-end-time='150938'>She spent many hours talking with women who do stunts in Hollywood, including those who started in the 1960s and 1970s. </span> <span data-start-time='150938' data-end-time='158250'>“Generally, women are holding their own, and getting most of these opportunities,” Wright said.</span> <span data-start-time='158250' data-end-time='163354'>Wright said stuntwomen do not usually go to a stunt school. </span> <span data-start-time='163354' data-end-time='168500'>They often find work by learning from or meeting people in the industry. </span> <span data-start-time='168500' data-end-time='174563'>Some make videos on YouTube or TikTok to show their skills.</span> <span data-start-time='174563' data-end-time='178646'>“Sometimes stunts run in families,” Wright said. </span> <span data-start-time='178646' data-end-time='185313'>“Not every stunt woman had that, but a lot of them had fathers that helped them develop the skills.”</span> </p></div><div 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