Steve Truglia
Steve Truglia
Steve Trugliais a stunt coordinator, stunt performer and action unit director in the UK. He is also an experienced television presenter and actor, having trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He is a registered full member of the UK Equity Stunt Register as a stunt co-ordinator, and has been on the Stunt Register since 1996. Truglia is a life member of the World Stunt Academy. He was an experienced after dinner and motivational public speaker,, and a television presenter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
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As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
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A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
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I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.
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I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
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Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.