It had never been done before, but as Monte Perlin gunned the engine of his Harley motorbike and prepared to land it in an open boxcar of a moving train, he was strangely calm.
Rather than fret for his own life, he was thinking about the responsibility he had for the life of the woman sitting on the saddle behind him.
He laughs to tell the story now, but his moving-train stunt for Disney’s 2008 Adam Sandler vehicle “Bedtime Stories” was perhaps the most dangerous Perlin’s attempted in his 25 years in Hollywood.
His career has involved many films, including “Spider-Man,” “Star Trek, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and portraying Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stunt double in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.”
That’s right: Monte Perlin is a stunt man…Â Details