Recently, posts criticizing Bach Loc using a stuntman in the Chinese movie "Mac Ly" in martial arts and tea scenes have attracted attention and discussion.
According to a post, in "Mac Ly", in a simple scene just sitting watching martial arts competitions and drinking tea, Bach Loc also uses a stuntman.
After the topic climbed to the top of searches, Bach Loc quickly released a behind-the-scenes video to refute it. In the video, she appeared in a complete image, sitting neatly and performing her own tea drinking movements as requested by the director, while expressing a series of emotions such as tension and then relaxation.
However, regarding the use of martial arts stunt actors, Bach Loc's side does not deny it. In just nearly a month, her social media account has lost about 1.17 million followers.
According to the media, in this wave of criticism, Bach Loc was somewhat "wrongfully scolded", because using professional stuntmen for dangerous movements is a normal working process of the film industry.
Each person has their own expertise, not every actor can easily complete action scenes.
Not only actors without martial arts backgrounds like Bach Loc, but even those who know martial arts or often act in action movies still use stunt actors in scenes with high levels of danger.
In Bach Loc's controversial action scene, the difficulty for normal people is already not low; she has to both perform the movement and hang the cable. Therefore, using a stuntman is considered reasonable.
For Bach Loc personally, using stunt actors is a way to protect oneself. From the perspective of the film crew, they will also proactively arrange stunt actors, because protecting the main actor also means ensuring production progress.
If actors perform themselves and then get injured, filming will be delayed, even obvious injuries will affect the continuity of the scenes.
The media also pointed out that on real-life film sets there are many types of stunt actors such as stunt actors in action scenes, nude scenes, hand stunt actors, horse riding scenes, water scenes, stunt actors standing to adjust the light, or stunt actors in dialogue scenes...
In which, the use of stunt actors in normal dialogues or scenes that are not action is a type of "that should not exist", but is now quite common.
Using body doubles in simple dialogues shows the actor's weak ability, even acting and dialogue cannot be filmed on their own.
However, some cases are not entirely because actors are lazy, but due to too tight schedules or special reasons.
Zhao Liying was once discovered using a stuntman in "Lao Jiu Men". Many scenes without revealing her face were actually filmed by others, because she was too busy at that time. The director had to take advantage of filming all of her positive scenes first, then use a stuntman to complete the remaining scenes when she had moved to a new film crew.
Another case is a female actress who became pregnant while filming. When her abdomen began to become visible, the film crew would film in close-up or portraits on the front, and scenes from behind would use stuntmen.
