The Absentees: How is the stunt preparation on the HBO Max series?

The Absents now available on HBO Max.

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The series The Absents, the first Brazilian Max Originals, has just debuted in HBO Max. The production portrays the work of the “Ausentes” agency, which specializes in investigating cases of missing persons in the city of São Paulo. Throughout the episodes, we follow characters' stories in search of answers about the disappearance of friends and family.

In Os Absentes the actors Erom Lamb and Mary flower face intense action scenes with the help of a stunt team. the actress plays Maria Julia, a journalist who flees from Buenos Aires after the mysterious disappearance of her father, and will work at this agency alongside Raul Fagnani, played by Erom Cordeiro, a former delegate who decided to open the Ausentes after the disappearance of his daughter Sofia.

With many action scenes in which the actors also have to deal with a great deal of drama, the 10-episode series was coordinated for stunt fight scenes. Gutemberg Lins and Daniel Galvão, gives Action Kung Fu – one of the pioneering companies specializing exclusively in martial arts for the production of series, films, advertising campaigns and music videos.

The word “double” comes from the English “double body”, or double body. The role of a stunt actor in Brazil is becoming more and more professional. Today, for example, there are drama schools and courses aimed at this field. Action Kung Fu offers a scenic fights workshop in which participants experience action scenes in fight choreographies. There is also the Tactical Stunt Training Center and Actors, which offers from recycling to professionals who are already in the market, to complete courses for those who have never had contact with the activity.

It is a differentiated training, because, in addition to special physical preparation, the professional must interpret movements such as falling down a ladder, being run over, jumping into a river. And all, of course, without suffering any physical damage. In addition, the fight choreography is also studied, which is called “action design”, to develop the concept of action for the final product.

To design the action scenes, the production sends a briefing to the stunt team, which usually integrates the entire script of the work to a second document decoupled only with the action images. It is based on this description that the team details how these actions will be. On the scene, there are other precautions: in addition to safety equipment to protect the body of the stuntmen, there are also certain restrictions.

If you happen to have shooting scenes, as in Os Ausentes, you must have prior authorization from the Brazilian Army, informing the number of scenographic shots that will be fired and, later, the return of the cartridges, which are for blanks.

The Absents is a production WarnerMedia Latin America and Panoramic for HBO Max, produced by Silvia Fu Elias, Mara Lobão and Rodrigo Montenegro, and executive produced by Vanessa Jardim. The series has general direction of Caroline Fioratti and direction of Raoni Rodrigues.

The project was created by Maria Carmen Barbosa and Thiago Luciano, with scripts by Thiago Luciano, René Belmonte and Bruno Passeri. All episodes are now available exclusively on HBO Max.

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