8 Amazing Film Stunts You Won’t Believe Didn't Use CGI

4. Zoe Bell Rides The Hood Of A Speeding Car

It's rare for an actor to do all of their own stunts, particularly when those stunts could legitimately kill them. Tom Cruise is one exception to that. Zoe Bell is a different kind of example, though, because she started her career as a stuntwoman, filling in for the likes of Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. When Quentin Tarantino saw how much of a raw bad ass she was, he decided to cast her in 2007's drive-in style slasher flick, Death Proof, giving her the role she was literally born to play: Bell. He cast her with the idea of Bell performing all of her own terrifying stunts, so that he could film them close-up, gleefully showing the audience that this was no camera trickery. That is actually the lead actress getting thrown around on the hood of a muscle car going 50 miles per hour. The only safety precaution was a small harness that Bell hid under her costume. Think about that the next time you feel "unsafe" on a Ferris Wheel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0xthZjW-s