With nearly 20 years of experience as a performer, Tara Macken has worked as a stunt performer, fight coordinator, stunt coordinator and action director. Tara is a 5 time SAG Award nominee for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (The Batman, Avengers: Endgame, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Infinity War and Furious 7), a 2 time nominee for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series (Westworld) and an Emmy nominee for Outstanding Stunt Performance in Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Her Emmy nod honored the epic series ending fight in episode 8, The Break-Up, which she also fight coordinated. Mr. & Mrs. Smith won an Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination (Stephen Pope). Our conversation starts with a deep dive into coordinating and performing in The Break-Up.

MENTIONS: 

Tara’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2706388/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk  

The Break-UP: https://youtu.be/9OL8a9uFkVQ?si=1EQJaUACg9nax_rL  

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Rewind short film: https://vimeo.com/353405461  

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UFC standout turned Director, Keith Jardine, and Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian) sit in on Film Fights with Friends to talk time loops, horror, and Jardine’s directorial debut, Kill Me Again. Written and directed by Jardine, Kill Me Again tells the story of Charlie (Brendan Fehr - Roswell, Final Destination), a notorious serial killer known as the Midnight Mangler, who finds himself trapped, reliving the same violent night over and over. Initially embracing his grisly urges, Charlie soon becomes desperate to escape the endless nightmare. Fehr is reunited with his Roswell co-star Majandra Delfino, Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian, Breaking Bad), Raoul Max Trujillo (Dark Winds, Mayans MC, Apocalypto), and Michelle Waterson-Gomez (Havoc). Kill Me Again is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, YouTube TV, and Google Play.

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Kill Me Again trailer: https://youtu.be/c_LadjazkVg

Kill Me Again website: https://www.killmeagainmovie.com/

Kill Me Again on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30332302/

Kill me Again on Instagram: https://instagram.com/kill_me_again.movie

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Michelle Waterson-Gomez is an American former mixed martial artist, actress and stuntwoman who has competed across various organizations including Strikeforce and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the former Invicta FC Atomweight Champion. Between 2013 and 2014, she was ranked the No. 1 women's atomweight fighter in the world. Waterson-Gomez holds a black belt in American freestyle karate and has also trained in wushu, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing and wrestling. Her rise to fame began as a contestant on the Muay Thai-themed Fight Girls reality show on the Oxygen television network. She was subsequently featured as one of the fighters in the MTV/MTV2 reality show Bully Beatdown. Transitioning from ring and cage fighting to screen fighting, her first role was in the film MacGruber (2010). Since then she has appeared in music videos for Megadeth, Thor (2011) The Lone Ranger (2013), The Signal (2014) and Olivia Cooke’s stunt double, Independence Day: Resurgence, and most recently opposite Tom Hardy in Gareth Evans’ Havoc (Netflix).

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Cabin shootout scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe01kfiQJOg

Cabin shootout scene part 2 (Michelle speargun scene): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYlG5mWAm8

Cabin shootout scene Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pldBKNsco

Michelle shotgun scene (at :31): https://youtu.be/HqrJ99X-9Ys?si=pxpt1y9dszy_mCcd

TAMMFF Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TAMMFF

Film Fights With Friends Live Event - Safe Sets Documentary

Screening: https://www.patreon.com/posts/film-fights-with-128874043

Stephen Koepfer – Sambo Expert on John Wick Parabellum: https://www.cautionspoilers.com/interviews/stephen-koepfer-sambo-expert-on-john-wick-parabellum/

Raiders of the Lost Ark patreon poster give away: https://youtu.be/mhEbnLDRyzY?si=Qsd7gc_sHi2VTOpV

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In this episode of Film Fights with Friends Steve and Paul share some of the crazier stories from their stunt careers including getting trolled after an appearance on a notorious Saturday Night Live sketch, improv gone wrong on The Punisher, calling out the leaker of Ray Donovan fight footage, a cautionary tale about working on friends’ passion projects and more!

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SNL Safelite Sketch: https://vimeo.com/247846876

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Joining Film Fights with Friends is Dr. Paul Heinzelmann, a physician, former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and Producer/Director of Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry - a feature length exploration of systemic issues impacting the health and wellbeing of film workers. This critically important documentary weaves together candid interviews with technicians, union representatives, public health experts, and notable performers (Jon Hamm and John Malkovich) with the story of Dr. Paul's effort to conduct research into health and safety in the film industry. The cumulative impacts of sleep deprivation, toxic exposure, stress, long hours, accidents and other issues explored in Safe Sets are not only detrimental and unhealthy, but potentially deadly for film workers. Stunts-gone-wrong and other accidents happen all the time on film sets. Not just the ones that make the news – workers die with such regularity that the life expectancy of film workers is estimated by some to be many years shorter than the national average. Film workers frequently succumb to untreated injuries, illnesses, substance use dependencies and mental health issues because they lack the time and resources to schedule medical appointments or to simply rest and heal.

Safe Sets IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28515733/reference/

Safe Sets Website:  https://www.safesetsmovie.org

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Mark Stanton-Kelly is a London based fight coordinator, stunt performer and lead stunt double with all round onset experience and skills. Mark is experienced and known for his ability to shoot and edit previz for feature films and television. He has a varied background in martial arts, is experienced in actor training and teaching fight choreography. Among the numerous productions Mark has coordinated fights for are Black Mirror, The Agency, Meg 2: The Trench, Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the upcoming Cliffhanger. As a previz shooter Mark has worked on Gangs of London and Treadstone. His very long list of credits as a performer includes Games of Thrones, Rocketman, Wonder Woman, Snatch, Kick-Ass 2, A Good Day to Die Hard and Thor: The Dark World. Any Star Wars fan would be envious of the productions Mark Has been Part of. As a performer, has appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Season 1 of Andor. The starting point for this interview is Mark’s incredible fight coordination and previz work on seasons 1 and 2 of Andor.

Mark’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5356734/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Mark’s Instagram: http://instagram.com/project44action

British Stunt Register Page: https://britishstuntregister.com/member/mark-stanton-kelly/

MENTIONS

Mark’s Viral Video - https://youtu.be/bCXmKbioA8s?si=Vb2EY_nujIwLUWwp

Andor S 1, Ep 6 The Escape Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7bHyVvGdY

Andor behind the scenes (Mark filming Previz at 00:40) -  https://youtu.be/gSW-pARyP-M?si=cHX2HQewD8EV4z1A

Meg 2 container Ship fight scene (viz'd part starts at 2:00)

– https://youtu.be/V7Ug1QA3Ak0?si=3L2Z68hjtHaT74cI

Andor S2 trailer (some of Mark’s action shown after 00:55) - https://youtu.be/duN-KQgOjYs?si=W3KrPd_pTdapnIF4

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Avaah Blackwell is a multilingual actor and versatile stunt performer. Classically trained in Europe, Blackwell began her career as a performer after graduating from Prague Film School's "Acting for Film" program at the top of her class. She has appeared in such productions as The Handmaid’s Tale, What We Do in the Shadows, 12 Monkeys and The Umbrella Academy. Avaah is most noted for her continued presence in the Star Trek universe including 28 episodes of Star Trek Discovery in such roles as Lt. Ina, Osnullus, and many other characters; 14 episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Rebecca Romijn’s stunt double and other roles; and most recently Star Trek: Section 31. Avaah is a longtime martial artist, which she has carried into her career as an actor and stunt performer. We start this interview with a breakdown of the Una vs La’an fight from episode 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. When not working on screen, Avaah can be found supporting her love for film by working for TIFF and Sundance Film Festival. 

Avaah’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4389000/bio/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Avaah’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/avaahblackwell

Avaah’s website: https://www.avaahblackwell.com/

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 3 - Una vs La’an: https://youtu.be/16AqzmpXpWI?si=da5kdR0he2OGupWg

 TAMMFF Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TAMMFF

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Tom Denier Jr. is a five-time IATSE Make Up and Hair Stylist Guild Award and four-time Emmy Award nominee. He has taken home two guild awards for his work on Saturday Night Live. Tom has worked on such noted productions as FX’s Pose, which garnered him a 2021 Emmy nod, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), The Holdovers (2023), Werewolves Within (2021) and You Were Never Really Here (2017). Perhaps some of his most graphic and brutal fight scene make up appeared in season 6 of Showtime’s Ray Donovan and in S. Craig Zahler’s 2017 feature Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn.

Tom’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219105/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Tom’s Instagram: http://instagram.com/tom_denier

MENTIONS

Ray Donovan. Polish Tony Fight (S6Ep4): https://youtu.be/JIpm05yZ_7w?si=hl1ubIU3WSGl3pE1

Brawl in Cell Block 99. Face Stomp: https://youtu.be/gGHjCZE2z3o?si=pdD1qko4SXtIcDf3

Brawl in Cell Block 99. Every On Screen Death and Gore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkshYb4ngI

Tom Denier Gold Derby Interview about Pose makeup: https://www.goldderby.com/feature/thomas-denier-jr-pose-

special-makeup-effects-video-interview-1204378598/

TAMMFF Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TAMMFF

Steve and Paul on CBS Morning’s Mission Impossible spot: https://vimeo.com/844597585

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Paul’s on Instagram: http://Instagram.com/KravMagaChef

Paul’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8062990/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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Tim Gallin began his quest to perform in feature films and TV after attending CW Post College on Long Island, NY. His first professional job came by way of the Gong Show in August of 1978. He was a contestant on an Elvis Presley special because Chuck Barris was a fan of The King. After seeing his old high school football coach, Vic Magnotta performing in Taxi Driver, Tim picked up the phone and gave him a call. Magnotta was a stuntman, retired special forces soldier, and Vietnam veteran who became close friends with Martin Scorsese while attending NYU. That fateful phone call created for Tim an opportunity to play football in the film The Wanderers. Through Magnotta’s continued offers to perform stunts, Tim met many of the people he would collaborate with over the next 45+ years. When asked about a favorite fight scene he performed in, the Marked for Death fight from the classic film F/X (1986) was Tim’s immediate response – and is the starting point of this interview that covers some of Tim’s epic experiences in the industry including stunt doubling Tom hanks on Splash and Steve Martin on Only Murders in the Building.

Tim’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302941/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

MENTIONS

F/X Trailer: https://youtu.be/ihsrN34WkME?si=EtOWzJFZos2zeCsQ

Marked For Death fight scene from F/X:  https://youtu.be/_KzpueROmto?si=70ABXgw4BnPfTqO5

The absurd life of a 61-year-old veteran Hollywood stuntman: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/christopher-maag/2017/12/07/veteran-hollywood-stuntman/762876001/

Vic Magnotta imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536312/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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Steve’s IMDB: http://imdb.me/stephenkoepfer

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Paul’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8062990/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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Riley Stearns is an American Filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His film balance on the edge of real and surreal, often focusing upon darker characteristics of the teacher – student relationship. Riley has written and directed Faults (2014), Dual (2022) and his most noted feature The Art of Self Defense (2019) starring Jesse Eisenberg. Riley is a long-time martial artist himself who holds a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Our interview with Riley begins with a pivotal fight from The Art of Self Defense and continues to explore why artists might gravitate to martial arts, work life balance and similarities between directing and training martial arts.

Riley’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2720681/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Riley’s Instagram: http://instagram.com/rileystearns

MENTIONS

Art of Self Defense Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/7Bms6Hba-3A?si=kLHDP7rwory_g7Lk

Art of Self Defense Anna’s Fight: https://youtu.be/R5agksmV0sQ?si=mYmN7Tfy0fSR3ZWI

Art of Self Defense Elbow Break Scene: https://youtu.be/7Bms6Hba-3A?si=kLHDP7rwory_g7Lk

Art of Self Defense Final Fight Scene: https://youtu.be/Syj6a0Qp420?si=aMgAGKg6jUW0EKs0

Faults Trailer: https://youtu.be/pnnbhJSX75U?si=3ewa2Rghy4dM2S6I

Dual Trailer: https://youtu.be/CpZkNQ0E4YI?si=lhphD_yRbwJMi2u3

The Vince Staples Show: https://www.netflix.com/title/81264943

Bobby Joe Blythe assault on homeless man: https://youtu.be/UDk963JkVkE?si=J8wbLIOoX0b-odcI

TAMMFF Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TAMMFF

Limited Edition Collectables: https://instagram.com/limited_edition_collectables

Train with Hector Santana in Los Angeles: https://www.taojiujitsu.com/

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