You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun.
Nicolas Cage has said actors need to be able to use a gun as it is “part of the job”, in comments responding to the fatal shooting on the set of Rust in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed.
Every stunt man needs to be a movie star, and every movie star needs to be a stunt man.”
Cage was speaking as part of a wide-ranging roundtable discussion for the Hollywood Reporter with fellow actors including Peter Dinklage, Jonathan Majors and Andrew Garfield.