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Article: Stuntwork? It's a piece of cake; Grappling with Judi Dench in the latest Bond film and standing in for Cruella de Vil in 102 Dalmatians is all in a day's work for stuntman Gordon Seed. David Charters meets him.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2002
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Byline: David Charters
DARK hairs tufted through the gap between the white socks and track-suit bottoms of the young father, as he crossed legs muscled in the style of a rugby prop-forward, before talking of his brief spell as a queen of the silver screen.
But he didn't have too much trouble transforming his compact build into the elegant curves of Glenn Close, he said, because at the time she was a cake. And Gordon Seed was her double in the film 102 Dalmatians.
You have to expect such things when you are a stuntman in the hard-riding, crushing and crashing, tumbling and rolling part of the dream factory. You are a celluloid hero whose name ...