Earlier than turning into a world-famous stunt performer and stunt coordinator, Zoë Bell kickstarted her profession in Xena: Warrior Princess. For 3 seasons, Bell served as physique double for none apart from Lucy Lawless (Spartacus: House of Ashur) herself, which means that a number of us had contact along with her early work with out even realizing it. Throughout an interview with Collider, Bell talked about her expertise on set and revealed the second within the collection during which she felt her life was modified.
At Incredible Fest the place she was celebrating the tenth anniversary of Raze, Bell talked to Collider’s Perri Nemiroff about her evolution in the stunt department and the way she discovered to navigate through Hollywood projects with each exorbitant and tiny budgets — in addition to how this impacts the stunts in a film. However all of that have was solely doable after she noticed herself onscreen in Xena: Warrior Princess and realized one thing vital:
“[T]he first time I noticed an episode, which was most likely a yr after I might been doubling her [Lucy Lawless] as a result of we had been a yr behind. So I used to be watching a few of it, and I bear in mind being like [gasps]. And it wasn’t nearly me. I used to be like, ‘Take a look at that cool shit I am doing and have a look at what everybody else is doing in order that now I’m Xena. It’s not Zoë within the Xena outfit. We’re doing this factor collectively!’ I understood what I used to be providing as a staff member and I actually appreciated it.”
Bell’s Motion Packed Profession
After Xena, Bell went on to take part on some big tasks, most notably Quentin Tarantino tasks. She was the stunt double for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill after which had her breakout performing function in Death Proof. Over the past couple of a long time, Bell has starred and labored within the stunts of a number of tasks, together with Malignant, Lost, and Thor: Ragnarok.
In 2013, Bell added the producer hat to her roster with Raze. Additionally in the course of the interview, she revealed that the movie was a game-changer by way of how she approached a narrative and began to think about components she by no means actually thought of earlier than. She acknowledged “Raze for me was like, ‘I am telling tales. It is vital to me how that is perceived. Not as a result of I would like folks to assume it is good or dangerous, however I would like folks to really feel stuff, and I’ve an opinion, and I now have a voice for the primary time,’ and I beloved it.”
You may stream Xena: Warrior Princess on Prime Video. Keep tuned at Collider for the remainder of Nemiroff’s dialog with Bell.
