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Neil Finnighan

Actor

Aug 2, 2026

ChrisHOST
6:29
[laughs]
6:30
Well, no.
6:30
Well, str- strangely it's, they put it in a way because y- you know, the, you can't just go, "Right, I'm gonna practice setting myself on fire," or, "I'm gonna practice getting hit by a car," you know, or, or practice falling off a building into some boxes and stuff.
6:48
You know, you'll end up getting hurt pretty quickly, you know, if you don't know what you're doing.
6:53
So the Stunt Regi- Register does it where they, they give you a load of physical tests like within, within a certain group, like disciplines that you have to have as a bare minimum to then become a probationary trainee stunt person.
7:11
So these qualifications, and you have to have a minimum of six, so let's just say for example, mine was, uh, skydiving.
7:19
So back in the day then, yeah, you know, that was one of the categories.

29 MINS LATER

ChrisHOST
36:02
Hmm.
ChrisHOST
1:00
I was going to say, what is the one film or TV show that you're kind of most proud of working
1:05
on? It would be that.
1:08
Well, you've got your bit.
1:10
I've worked with Gladiator.
1:12
I worked a whole lot on Gladiator.
1:14
Iconic films like that.
1:16
I could say there's a tick in the box, isn't there? I worked on Gladiator, Fort Russell, Fort Joaquin Phoenix, you know, or Soundfire, The Arrows, all those things.
ChrisHOST
20:55
Is that right?
20:56
No, what happened was, I'll try and be brief here because if we want to get onto the Stanty thing and the racing and all that, which is the thing I'm pushing, obviously, the racing, I've mentioned I've got to be brutal and obviously the book and shit like that.
21:11
But...
21:13
So we did the Falklands, came straight back, and then we were the first unit to go on Northern Ireland training.
21:21
So that had been to the Falklands.
21:22
So we did a quick turnaround.
21:24
By January, we were in Northern Ireland.

15 MINS LATER

ChrisHOST
36:37
So that was the end of the military chapter then?

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