Ryan Gosling credits “an amazing stunt” team for helping get him ready to film “The Gray Man,” a big-budget, action-packed espionage thriller from Netflix in which he stars as highly skilled CIA operative Sierra Six, better known simply as “Six.”
“There was, as you can imagine, a lot of training for the film,” Gosling says during the recent virtual global news conference in advance of the movie’s limited theatrical release last week. “At first, they sort of went through all these different styles of martial arts and sort of tried to curate it for you and the character.”
Gosling also credited Craig “Chili” Palmer, an adviser on the production and a former member of the U.S. military’s Delta Force, for tactical advice — which included ideas such as tying your shoelaces to a doorknob before you go to sleep to ensure you’ll know when someone enters the room.
