Faking It: What It's Really Like To Be A Stuntwoman In Hollywood

Johnny Depp is an extremely graceful diver. Or, at least, that’s what I thought when, at the very impressionable age of 13, I saw Pirates of The Caribbean for the first of five times in theaters. Eventually though (okay, after re-watching it obsessively for years after), I realized that while Johnny may or may not be a fan of aquatic sports, he is almost certainly not diving in this scene. Enter the stunt doubles, whose job it is to make the hardest, most intensely physical scenes look...