Gabriel Basso Shares Why He Prefers to Do His Own Stunts for 'The Night Agent' - Watch Now!

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Gabriel Basso is dishing on The Night Agent season two! On Tuesday night (January 14), the 30-year-old actor made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where he promoted the upcoming season of the Netflix series, which will be released next week.

During the interview, Gabriel explained why he prefers to do all of his own stunts. Keep reading to find out more…“I think that can kind of get misconstrued into the world of like, I do it because I want to say I can do it, and it’s really not about that,” Gabriel explained. “To me it’s about audience immersion.” Gabriel went on to say that when fans watch The Night Agent, he wants them to feel that his performance as Peter Sutherland is believable. “I don’t want the audiences watching the show, and then right as I’m about to get hit or hip tossed or thrown on my back, you know.

I feel like it’s a lie,” Gabriel said. “I enjoy acting, I don’t like lying.” For him, Gabriel believes there’s a “difference” when it comes to performing stunts for the “sake of the audience immersion” and “the sake of believability.” “They like Peter [and] to watch him take hits is important, I feel like,” he explained. “And if that requires me to get tossed into a wall, then fine.

It’s not the end of the world.” One stunt that was suggested for the new season was skydiving, which Gabriel already does in his personal life. “[Netflix] brought it up as an idea and then I was like, ‘Oh I already skydive.