Eliza Dushku said about stunts in a chat session with The Globe in March 1999:
“Day one I did about 2 punches and I’ve learned as I go on, from the “Enemies” episode with Angel, we did most of our own stunts, me and David have a sick love for fighting. We don’t mind coming home with bruises. I love me personally watching the show and my friends knowing it is me. I always want to do my own stunts.”
Jeff Pruitt, the show’s stunt coordinator, says lots of the fighting we see on Buffy has to be done by pros.
“But we let Eliza do some blocking and hitting, because she’s so enthusiastic. Before she started the show, I had her watch Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and some old samurai movies to see their expressions when they slam some guy against the wall. Then we practiced in front of a mirror, with some ducking and yelling. Now she gets a big kick out of it.”
Eliza also says:
“After days of taping, I have black-and-blue marks all over me. Now they can film me more, because I can add together a kick and a duck and a spin and a punch more realistically.”
November 13th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
I love it when the stars do their own stunts it makes it more real. And I would totally do the same, I love kickboxing and streetfighting, butI guess it’s harder than just punch punch..to do stunts. Takes a lot of koordination.
December 28th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
Eliza said pretth much the same thing in a featurette on the DVD for Wrong Turn.
December 28th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
plus, if a stunt goes wrong, and the star gets a black eye or something it would take alot of time to make it go for the next sequence to be filmed, althou i do respect peopld who do their own stunts. good on them!