[ti:Help Wanted: Stunt Women for Hollywood] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]The success of action movies like Wonder Woman [00:03.92]and television shows like Wandavision [00:07.76]show that viewers like seeing women fighting, flying and jumping. [00:15.12]Stunt performers often take the place of famous male and female actors [00:21.52]in these action films so the big stars do not get hurt. [00:27.24]At one point, movie producers would commonly use stuntmen [00:33.16]wearing hairpieces, or wigs, to perform these actions for female actors. [00:41.84]The practice began to change in 2017 when an American stuntwoman, [00:48.28]Deven MacNair, started a discrimination complaint. [00:53.44]She said a producer had used a stuntman to perform a stunt [00:57.80]for a female actor on a set she was working on. [01:03.44]Lucas Dollfus is the director of Campus Univers Cascade, [01:08.96]or CUC, in northeastern France. [01:13.56]He told the Reuters news agency, [01:16.52]"We don't need wigs anymore. The women are badass in any case." [01:22.52]CUC calls itself the world's biggest stunt school. [01:29.12]About a third of the students at the school are women like Valeriane Michelini. [01:35.40]Once trained as a dancer, Michelini is now training to fight, [01:41.48]crash through glass windows and jump out of helicopters at CUC. [01:48.28]She said fighting has a different kind of movement than dancing. [01:54.24]"I'm used to thriving in a graceful and feminine world," [01:58.72]the 29-year-old said. "And now, I'm in quite the opposite." [02:05.12]April Wright makes films that tell stories about real life, [02:10.04]called documentaries. [02:12.32]Her film Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story came out in 2020. [02:20.36]She spent many hours talking with women who do stunts in Hollywood, [02:25.60]including those who started in the 1960s and 1970s. [02:31.36]"Generally, women are holding their own, [02:34.12]and getting most of these opportunities," Wright said. [02:38.64]Wright said stuntwomen do not usually go to a stunt school. [02:43.04]They often find work by learning from or meeting people in the industry. [02:48.56]Some make videos on YouTube or TikTok to show their skills. [02:54.64]"Sometimes stunts run in families," Wright said. [02:58.52]"Not every stunt woman had that, [03:01.20]but a lot of them had fathers that helped them develop the skills." [03:05.48]Malik Diouf is a trainer at the CUC stunt school in France. [03:12.48]He said CUC cannot keep the students in school, [03:17.12]as more women are needed for stunts [03:19.68]with the growth of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. [03:25.68]"As soon as they have the slightest skills, [03:28.80]they leave directly to work with the Americans, [03:31.76]the English or the rest of the world," he said. [03:35.76]Wright agrees that this is a good time [03:39.48]for women to get jobs as stuntwomen. [03:43.00]"There is a lot more television and movies [03:47.16]being made right now that have women doing action, [03:51.60]and so there's a lot more opportunity now [03:55.84]for women to get into this profession." [03:59.52]There is also more work for stuntwomen [04:01.96]because the actors in movies and television are more diverse. [04:06.28]That means there are more opportunities [04:09.08]for women from different racial backgrounds. [04:12.12]Once they get started, Wright said [04:15.20]it is a good idea for stuntwomen to keep learning new skills. [04:19.56]Perhaps they might go to a driving school [04:23.00]to learn how to control a car in a chase or a race. [04:28.72]"Stunt people have to keep their skills up to par," Wright said. [04:33.60]While the opportunities may be growing, it is still not an easy business. [04:39.40]Stunt people may know how to fight or fall out of cars, [04:43.76]but they still get hurt. [04:46.72]Wright said stunt people are very careful in the way they prepare [04:51.12]for their work because they know it is dangerous. [04:54.76]Sometimes it may be just a broken bone. [04:58.76]But in 2017, stuntwoman Joi Harris, [05:02.80]who had been a professional motorcycle racer, [05:05.64]died in a chase during the filming of Deadpool 2. [05:10.60]"I knew some stunt women, but I did not know [05:13.24]this much about it before I started the film. [05:16.92]And it was really exciting to meet them, [05:19.44]you know, because they're very inspiring people." [05:22.36]I'm Dan Friedell. [05:24.32]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM