STUNTSTRUCK! Ordinary people doing extraordinary things‪.‬ Augie Davis

Sala  Baker is a Stuntman and Actor best known for playing Sauron in The Lord Of The Rings  movies. We discuss  his move to Hollywood twenty years ago during and while still in his early days in the Industry and the challenges he faced navigating a new life. We talk about values and habits that get us through the grind of finding success.

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Steve grew up on a King Country sheep & beef farm using horses for  stock work.  Pony Club & Polo Cross.  Whilein Melbourne during the mid 90’s Steve helped a  friend organise a week long charity horse ride & decided this could  work in NZ.  Introduced the Great NZ Trail Ride 1996 with 483 riders  around Coromandel for a week raising $40,000 for Multiple Sclerosis. Set up as annual  event building Potable showers from a container. Offered to LOTR  producers for use for free at Hobbiton while building the sets.  Conversation with  UPM lead to the role as Horse Coordinator/HOD  for the LOTR trilogy.

Three years later Steve was the Horse Coordinator for The Last Samurai leading to more features overseas as a Coordinator & Performer. Enough said the rest is history.

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Stuntman Carl Van Roon is an 11 x ITF World Champion and Sport Scientist (MSc) with a  passion for sharing the benefits of Martial Arts with people of all  backgrounds, experience levels and styles. Taekwon-Do Hall of Fame 2020, Best Overall Competitor of the ITF World Championships 2009 & 2011, ISKA Sport Karate World Champion 2010 & 2016, All Japan Seishinkan Karate Champion 2007, Former Captain of the NZ National WAKO Kickboxing team.

Three stunt performers Tori Marsh who has worked on The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), Adrift (2018) and The Meg (2018), Ashlee Fidow is known for her work on Mulan (2020), Alien: Covenant (2017) and The Meg (2018) and Sateki Finau-Baas is known for his work on The Legend of Baron To'a (2020), The New Legends of Monkey (2018),The Shannara Chronicle meet up and talk with Augie Davis while away on shoot in the middle of New Zealand. 

Stuntman and Horsemaster Rory McTavish has trained stunt horses for Film TV  and advertising to a very high standard and performed the  action himself in front of camera. A stuntman with a strong martial arts background and developing a love for horses in his twenties Rory is on the verge of becoming one of the industries action horse coordinators. Rory is one to watch.

A member of the Stunt Guild of New Zealand Rory  has worked with some of the worlds most experienced performers and  coordinators and is now putting his money and time where it needs to be, HORSES.

"Horses  have become my life, they have fed my family and put a roof over our  heads, they have taught me the value of perseverance and will forever  keep me humble."

Update from me on the Podcast.