Jeannie Epper, a stunt double for Lynda Carter in the 1970s Wonder Woman TV series and performed stunts in such movies as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo…
Type keyword(s) to search Our car experts choose every product we feature. We may earn money from the links on this page. MAGDALENA WOSINSKA The Badass Stuntwomen Shaking Up the Hollywood Boys Club For an embarrassing amount of time, Hollywood has used men in wigs to do stunts for female characters. The women of the Association of Women Drivers prove there s no need for that. We figured we d get in trouble after the first one. It’s not like a muscle car spinning tires at redline is subtle. As melted BFGoodrich hung in the air, a couple of guys came out of the plumbing supply place at the end of the road and looked directly at Dee Bryant perched on the fender, Olivia Summers giggling in the driver’s seat, and Angela Meryl doubled over a few feet away, speckled with rubber and laughing like a fiend. Despite the fact that the 1970 Challenger was still sending smoke signals from its wheel wells, the plumbers looked past us, seeking some teenage boys or mustached bank robbers. Grown women don’t do burnouts on public streets like hooligans. The men went back inside. We did more burnouts.