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Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’. Image: Supplied

Biting the bullet: ‘Natural-born athlete’ Brad Pitt stuns with ‘Bullet Train’ stunts

Stunt coordinator Greg Rementer says veteran actor Brad Pitt did pretty much all of his own stunts for the upcoming action movie ‘Bullet Train’ with Sandra Bullock.

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Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’. Image: Supplied

The Hollywood actor portrays assassin Ladybug in David Leitch’s hotly awaited star-studded flick, which is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. 

And the movie’s stunt coordinator, Greg Rementer, has revealed he was amazed by “natural-born athlete” Brad’s fighting and said the likes of Michael Shannon also “excelled” in training for the physical side of things.

Brad Pitt did ‘95% of his own physical stunts’

Greg told Vulture: “Brad did 95% of his physical stunts — the fighting. He’s like a natural-born athlete. He really got in there! Never have I ever done so many huge actors in one feature where all of them excelled at the physical movement of our training. So Brad, Brian [Tyree Henry], Michael Shannon, Hiroyuki Sonada, Andrew Koji — who was already a stud in terms of where he comes from with the show ‘Warrior’ — all these actors put out some great action and did a lot of stuff.”‘

Fight Club star Brad, 57, won an Oscar for his portrayal of stunt man Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’last year.

Five assassins on a bullet train…

Deadline sums up the plot of Bullet Train as follows:

“Five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?”

All-star cast and producers

Sandra Bullock, Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz, Hiroyuki Sanada, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bad Bunny, Masi Oka and Andrew Koji also make up the cast.

The script comes from Zak Olkewicz and, as well as helming the motion picture, David – who helmed Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw – is also producing with his wife Kelly McCormick through their company 87North. Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick are also producing, while Brittany Morrissey will executive produce.

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