10 Incredible Movie Scenes You Won't Believe Weren't Faked

4. Keanu Reeves Really Made That Jump - Speed

There's a pretty famous story that Speed's big stunt - the slightly silly bus jump over the unfinished highway, which is the enemy of science - was really pulled off, aside for the gap being digitally added after filming. That's all well and good, but no actors were put in direct harm for it.

The same can't be said of the scene that saw Keanu Reeves jumping from a moving car to the bomb-laden bus while driving at 60mph to tell the passengers about the explosives.

The initial plan was to have a stuntman do the jump, but Reeves had other ideas and rehearsed the jump in secret before rocking up on the day of filming and insisting that he do it himself. He pulled it off, incredibly and it gave him such an appetite for stunts that he's insisted on doing as many as he can himself since.