Human Target's Mark Valley
... Human Target is the most action-packed sequence TV series on Fox; what stunt work do you do yourself and what can we expect to see this season as far as fight sequences and explosions?
MV - Well, the explosions are a little bigger. The fight sequences aren’t quite as long as they were last season, but they’re much more intense. My stunt double, Jeff Robinson, seems like he’s improving faster than I am, so it’s really kind of throwing a challenge out there for me. We also have a shorthand working together. For example, we have an array of stunt people that come in under different guises and play bad guys, and we’re all sort of used to working together and working with our camera crew. That allows us to put things together a bit more quickly, so our fights might be a little bit faster and more intense.
That said, we owe an awful lot to Steve Boyum, our producer/director who is with us in Vancouver. There is a great deal of preparation that goes into finding a feasible or a cost effective way of producing these stunts, and it’s just amazing the way he does it. Steve previously worked as a stuntman as well as a cameraman. He’s been around for a while and we’re really profiting from his experience at being able to lay out these scenarios where we can work and play. In some ways we’re saving ourselves an awful lot of time from his experience and benefiting from that. So thanks to those assets, we’re just going to continue to make some pretty interesting stuff...
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