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The Night Agent Season 3 Tops Netflix as Basso’s Stunt Push Elevates the Action

Gabriel Basso says his insistence on riskier, tightly rehearsed maneuvers shaped the season’s signature set pieces.

Overview

  • Season 3 heightens the show’s action profile with chases, fights and large-scale set pieces while holding the No. 1 spot on Netflix, according to watson.
  • For an Istanbul car chase, Gabriel Basso proposed a Reverse-180 driving maneuver and tested it with his stunt double in a parking garage before submitting video of the move.
  • Production initially rejected the maneuver over liability concerns, then approved it after Basso’s persistent lobbying, he told The Hollywood Reporter as recounted by watson.
  • A major fight was reimagined from land to a sequence inside a water-filling vehicle, leading Basso and a stunt partner to train nine to ten hours in a water tank.
  • Basso says he performs many of his own stunts and views the preparation as part of the job, comparing his regimen to that of an NFL professional.