Green Lantern Stuntman Describes His Work On The Movie!

Green Lantern Stuntman Describes His Work On The Movie!

John Bernecker, who doubles for Peter Sarsgaard's Hector Hammond in Green Lantern, discusses the work he did on the movie as well as his experiences with prosthetics and Martin Campbell...

By JoshWilding - Jan 10, 2011 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Green Lantern
Source: Comicus

Here are some of the main highlights from the stuntmans interview with Comicus. Be sure to follow the link at the bottom of this page to read the whole thing, including which other movies you can see his work in after the highly anticipated release of Warner Bros' Green Lantern.

How's been working with director Martin Campbell?

"Working with Martin Campbell was definitely an experience. He was so fun to watch work. He would say the funniest craziest things and everyone just loved to watch him work."

I suppose you had to train yourself before the shooting begun: did you took a particular training even in view of your work on Green Lantern? If it's so, what kind of training did you have?

"I did not have to do any specific target training for this film. We train 5-6 days a week already in almost every aspect of the job possible so we are ready whenever anything comes up."

How would you describe the level of action of the movie?

"I cant say about how much action there will be, but from the scenes I was in it looks like the action will be a lot of fun and interesting."

Did you directly work with cast's actor such as Peter Sarsgaard? Could you talk about that?

"There were a few scenes I got to work on where Ryan Reynolds was present. I did not get to meet Peter Sarsgaard as I was not his "Main" stunt double. His main stunt double could not be there for a certain stunt that day and I fit the criteria so I just helped fill in."

In the movie Sarsgaard's character goes through a transformation. Did you have to shoot any sequence wearing his same prosthetics? How would you describe this experience?

"I did have to go through the prosthetics which was long to put on. It took the artist 5 hours to apply everything to my face and the transformation looked amazing. These people really are incredible at what they do."

Could you describe the atmosphere on the set? Could you tell us some funny anecdote that happened during the shooting?

"The atmosphere on set while I was there was always serious during filming and right before but in between everyone was super nice and got along, just great people to be around. There were numerous funny moments. While filming a big scenes with hundred of extras Martin would always take the time to get on the loud speaker and start talking and playing around with the extras which was really funny and kept everyone in a uplifting mood."


Green Lantern is set to be released in 3D on June 17, later this year. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds in the title role with Mark Strong, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard among others.




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dahamma
dahamma - 1/10/2011, 1:15 PM
dang....he woulda made a good Hal...
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 1/10/2011, 1:23 PM
DAHAMMA @ But he's a stuntman LOL???

Cool stuff @ JOSH! ; )
dahamma
dahamma - 1/10/2011, 1:27 PM
yeah i kno i kno lol
canadianturd
canadianturd - 1/10/2011, 2:23 PM
I'm wondering if his publicity photo is supposed to be 'blue steel' or 'magnum'.
Angelus
Angelus - 1/10/2011, 2:59 PM
@ Canadianturd - I believe its called the "Crouching Tiger"! Its very rare.. Very rare indeed sir!

Anyway, great article!

BMP!
birchy6
birchy6 - 1/18/2011, 3:56 PM
Hardly sounds like a 'troubled production' does it?

Judging by his experiences on set anyway.
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