Sala  Baker is a Stuntman and Actor best known for playing Sauron in The Lord Of The Rings  movies. We discuss  his move to Hollywood twenty years ago during and while still in his early days in the Industry and the challenges he faced navigating a new life. We talk about values and habits that get us through the grind of finding success.

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Steve grew up on a King Country sheep & beef farm using horses for  stock work.  Pony Club & Polo Cross.  Whilein Melbourne during the mid 90’s Steve helped a  friend organise a week long charity horse ride & decided this could  work in NZ.  Introduced the Great NZ Trail Ride 1996 with 483 riders  around Coromandel for a week raising $40,000 for Multiple Sclerosis. Set up as annual  event building Potable showers from a container. Offered to LOTR  producers for use for free at Hobbiton while building the sets.  Conversation with  UPM lead to the role as Horse Coordinator/HOD  for the LOTR trilogy.

Three years later Steve was the Horse Coordinator for The Last Samurai leading to more features overseas as a Coordinator & Performer. Enough said the rest is history.

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Stuntman Carl Van Roon is an 11 x ITF World Champion and Sport Scientist (MSc) with a  passion for sharing the benefits of Martial Arts with people of all  backgrounds, experience levels and styles. Taekwon-Do Hall of Fame 2020, Best Overall Competitor of the ITF World Championships 2009 & 2011, ISKA Sport Karate World Champion 2010 & 2016, All Japan Seishinkan Karate Champion 2007, Former Captain of the NZ National WAKO Kickboxing team.

Stuntman and Horsemaster Rory McTavish has trained stunt horses for Film TV  and advertising to a very high standard and performed the  action himself in front of camera. A stuntman with a strong martial arts background and developing a love for horses in his twenties Rory is on the verge of becoming one of the industries action horse coordinators. Rory is one to watch.

A member of the Stunt Guild of New Zealand Rory  has worked with some of the worlds most experienced performers and  coordinators and is now putting his money and time where it needs to be, HORSES.

"Horses  have become my life, they have fed my family and put a roof over our  heads, they have taught me the value of perseverance and will forever  keep me humble."

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Stuntman  Tony Marsh is a well respected and known performer, rigger and team player.. He has doubled for many actors including Ryan Gosling, Jason Statham.  He left School at sixteen to continue with a stunt career that paid more then his teachers. Other stunt roles/movies: Spartacus, The Lovely  Bones, The Hurt Locker (stunt double/performer –  Jeremy Renner, 2007), King Kong (stunt double- Adrian Brody, 2004-2005), The Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit, The Meg, The Mechanic, Wrecked, Avatar..

Adventurer and Stunt Woman Lori O'Connells interests and inclinations have taken her all across the map, both figuratively and literally. In her career, she has settled into a few roles that combine her natural inclinations and trained skills. She is a stunt performer working out of Vancouver, Canada. Some of her most recent work including being the stunt double for the lead on the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, the lead mermaid in the TV series Siren. Some of her main proclivities include fighting, water work (free diving, cold water, etc), wire work, and she LOVES doing horror movie performance of all kinds. See Lori's IMDb page. 

Lori has practiced martial arts for 27 years, with her primary discipline being Can-ryu Jiu-jitsu (a Canadian style of Japanese Jiu-jitsu), in which she holds a 5th Degree black belt. She has also taught this art locally and internationally for over twenty years, having run her own dojo and been invited to teach and national and local conferences. 

Lori is also a blogger and author, having published two books, including When the Fight Goes to the Ground with Tuttle Publishing, and Weapons of Opportunity: One Woman's Casual Crusade through the World of Dojos and Low Blows. 

Lori also wrote, produced and stunt doubled on her short film Inner Demon, which was included in several film festivals, received several award nominations, won two awards, the "Angels in Action" award at the Urban Action Film Festival and Best Director at the Artemis Film Festival. She is currently writing her first feature film, a comedy-thriller in which a wannabe actress, stunt performer. 

Lori has a wide range of hobbies that she actively pursues, including outdoor adventure (hiking, backpacking, kayaking, snowshoeing, swimming, freediving/scuba, etc), cooking and baking, and she loves to unwind playing board games, singing karaoke, doing a variety of YouTube dance classes, and watching sci-fi, horror and comedy TV shows and movies. She currently writes on her blog FeedNFlow.com daily, with the main topics being keto lifestyle and recipes, as well as outdoor adventures. 

Part 2: Shane Rangi  is a New Zealand born actor, Stuntman, Creature Suit performer from Ngati Porou. He  has played many characters in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe he played General Otmin, general of the White Witch's army,  In Prince Caspian, he played the werewolf, Asterius the Minotaur, the Wild Bear and the Physical Aslan. In the movie Voyager of the Dawn Treader he plays Tavros the Minotaur.

Shane also appears in the miniseries Spartacus: Gods of the Arena as Dagan – a gladiatorial Syrian recruit. When Not in a creature suit  or acting he is also one of New Zealand most respected stuntman. Shane  discusses his journey from growing up in the country to pursue a carreer  as a performer.

Shane Rangi  is a New Zealand born actor, Stuntman, Creature Suit performer from Ngati Porou. He  has played many characters in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe he played General Otmin, general of the White Witch's army,  In Prince Caspian, he played the werewolf, Asterius the Minotaur, the Wild Bear and the Physical Aslan. In the movie Voyager of the Dawn Treader he plays Tavros the Minotaur.

Shane also appears in the miniseries Spartacus: Gods of the Arena as Dagan – a gladiatorial Syrian recruit. When Not in a creature suit or acting he is also one of New Zealand most respected stuntman. Shane discusses his journey from growing up in the coutry to pursue a carreer as a performer.