Sarah France,twenty four,is one of Britain’s sixteen professional stunt women—there are one
hundred and sixty stunt men in the country.We asked Sarah how she came to be a stunt woman.
“From when I was young I’d train to be a dancer,and for seven years after school I was hardly out of work,A dancer’s life is pretty short,though,and my father suggested I should think about doing stunt work after I’d given up dancing.I thought about it for the next two years and decided to
have a go.For six months,I worked really hard every day,all day.I had to learn different skills—swimming,jumping,horse-riding,etc.”
Sarah finished the course in just five months and applied(申请)to the office which decides whether you’re accepted as a professional stunt person or not.Two weeks after she was accepted, Sarah was throwing off the Great Wall of China in Superman IV.
“I was very lucky to get work so quickly.I had a small part,playing a traveler who fell off the Wall after an earthquake.The traveler’s life was saved by Superman,of course! Actually,I fell forty-five feet into a pile of cardboard boxes(纸盒)!You can’t use anything softer than that or you will be brought back into view of the cinema.Instead you just have to learn to fall properly.It’s quite dangerous but I enjoy it.”
66.Quite a number of people want to do dangerous acts in films because
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