David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: Last November, as veteran stunt driver Olivia Summers was leaving a production meeting, a commercial producer took her aside and said: “I didn’t realize there were female drivers.
We just put a guy in a wig for a job.” It’s a practice known as “wigging,” in which stuntmen don wigs and dresses to double for actresses.SAG-AFTRA said two years ago that “wigging a male stunt performer to double for a female performer is not acceptable and this should not happen again.” And yet, the practice persists.
So Summers, who doubled for Kristen Wiig in a memorable stunt driving scene in Bridesmaids (see the scene below), decided then and there to do something about it. “I left the building and walked to my car,” she.
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