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ALL IN with Bridget Burt – Australia’s Stunt Woman

We dive into the world of Australian Stunt Woman, Bridget Burt, a stuntwoman in your favourite movies, like ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘The Fall Guy,’ and ‘Godzilla x King: The New Empire.’

Bridget Burt is a former world flyboarding champion with a black belt in taekwondo and a passion for driving fast cars.

She has gained a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most daring stuntwomen after dazzling audiences with her antics in a string of recent blockbusters. Her credits include The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla x Kong and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. As part of her day job, she drives jet skis through choppy waters, completes Evel Knievel-style jumps on motorbikes, jumps out of planes and deliberately crashes cars. She is regularly punched, kicked, slammed onto the ground and thrown into walls during fight scenes, and she has even been set on fire.

Bridget Burt dressed in an all black outfit leaning up against a blue car.

A LIFELONG PURSUIT OF HIGH-OCTANE CHALLENGES

After all that hard work, she could be forgiven for taking it easy in her spare time. After all, she has earned the right to put her feet up, drink a cup of cocoa and relax in front of the TV.

But nothing would appeal less to this 5 ft. 5 in. bundle of energy. Instead, Bridget spends her spare time skydiving, wingsuiting, rock climbing, horse riding, shooting, practicing gymnastics or indulging in her passion for Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Occasionally, you’ll find her running marathons or heading to a remote village in South America for an ayahuasca trip. Lately, she has been spending a lot of time in Japan, zooming around the streets of Japan with some of the world’s finest drift car drivers. It seems that she enjoys anything but standing still.

Bridget’s showreel is 1 minute and 41 seconds of pure adrenaline. She drives all sorts of vehicles at outrageous speeds, gets dragged through a river by an angry ape, dives off high boards, jumps off the wings of planes, kicks hulking villains in the head and performs about 9,000 backflips.

The 27-year-old adrenaline seeker has already mastered a huge variety of skills, which she attributes to her unusual childhood in New South Wales.

THE EARLY YEARS

Bridget was born in Manly, the bustling beachside suburb of Sydney, but she moved to Port Macquarie with her parents at the age of seven.

They opened a water sports business, and she began working there when she was just 12 years old. By the time she was 15, she had saved enough money to go on her first solo vacation.

“My parents and I went on a trip overseas when I was 14,” she told On The Mike. “That was our first ever trip, and I fell in love with travelling straight away. I need to see more of the world.

“My mum brought me up to be very independent. She was an orphan from Brazil. She left the orphanage at the age of 12 and was looking after herself, so she brought me up in a similar sense, that you need to be able to look after yourself.”

While most 15-year-olds struggle to get out of bed in the morning, Bridget embarked on a seven-week trip to North America all by herself. That allowed her to indulge in her passion for high-octane pursuits, and she never looked back.

FLYBOARD CHAMPION TURNED STUNTWOMAN

Bridget found her niche in flyboarding, which involves being propelled into the air by jets of water, which are pumped through a hose attached to a jet ski. In 2018, she became a world flyboarding champion, and she was invited to China to perform in front of 80,000-strong crowds, often with highly explosive pyrotechnics strapped to her back.

By 2020, she had visited 28 different countries, and she was already a martial arts expert, so she decided to pursue a full-time career as a stuntwoman, or stunty, as they are known. She appeared in a few notable movies, including the Elvis biopic, but 2024 has been Bridget’s breakthrough year.

Her backflipping, daredevil antics have dazzled audiences watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla x Kong and The Fall Guy. The latter is all about stunt performers, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Bridget served as Blunt’s stunt double, giving her the chance to show off her wide array of skills.

“I was very fortunate to do some stunt doubling for Emily Blunt along with lots of other stunt roles,” she said. “What a film to be a part of with so much going on and so many talented individuals.”

Bridget Burt in a bright green wing suit and helmet skydiving

“I ONLY FEEL MINIMAL FEAR”

Bridget’s profile lists nine specialist skills – boat driver, fire burns (including twirling and wearing pyrotechnics), jet skier, live shows, martial arts, precision car driver, scuba diver, skydiving (340 jumps and counting, plus a wingsuit license), and of course, wire work.

“To be a stunt performer, I see that as being a master at a lot of different skills,” she said. “You can specialise, but you do need a general ability to do a lot of skills.

“The past years have been jam-packed of thrills and pushing really hard to gain skills. Still so much more to work on and achieve.  But I love the progression, I love the challenges, and all the heavy training put into my sports has been so worth it. Let the adventures, hard work and fun continue.”

Her work can be tiring, so she eats a healthy, plant-based, high-protein diet and ensures she gets 8-9 hours of sleep per night. That gives her the energy to wake up the next day and throw herself headfirst into another wild challenge.

“I only feel minimal fear, and I push past it. I think I lack something in that area, as I often push myself and get hurt.

“I get injured all the time. I have a new injury every week, but they’re not serious. My serious injuries have been from flyboarding or other extreme sports. When flyboarding, I broke my ankle, hit my face on the bottom of a pool, hit my head and had a neck injury for six months.

If you get hurt, you know you made an error, but you just need to get back up there as soon as possible.”

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