THE FALL GUY isn't just this year's most wildly entertaining action movie—it's also director David Leitch's love letter to Hollywood's stunt community, who've long been unsung for their work creating the thrilling scenes that can make or break a blockbuster. Ryan Gosling stars as a stuntman who gets pulled into high-octane hijinks when the movie star he stunts for goes missing, while Emily Blunt stars as the movie-within-a-movie's director. So when Men's Health shot Leitch and Gosling for our May/June cover, we decided to take a page from Leitch's script and celebrate the stunt community too.

For the cover shoot, Leitch and Gosling got part of the Fall Guy band back together: stunt designer Chris O'Hara, stunt driver Logan Holladay, and Gosling's stunt double Ben Jenkins. Jenkins, a parkour expert, subbed in for Gosling in scenes like one where he's hit by a car. "The key," he says, "is to keep your hips high and the weight off your feet, and let the impact throw you." (Still, we won't be trying it any time soon.)

Shot on the Universal lot—just steps away "Courthouse Square," an outdoor set that's hosted everything from Magnum, P.I. to Escape from L.A. to Marty McFly's hometown of Hill Valley—O'Hara took the lead in coordinating set-ups where Holladay did burnouts in a Dodge Charger and later did wheelies on a motorcycle through one of the photos.

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The week before the shoot, Gosling and Blunt presented Holladay with the Guinness World Record for performing the most cannon rolls in a car. He hit eight-and-a-half rolls on a beach in Australia for a scene in The Fall Guy where Gosling's character Colt Seaver does the stunt to much fanfare. (Not only did Holladay pull off the record-breaking stunt, he then made a cameo as the person pulling Colt out of the car.) "My heart rate was close to its max because I know the risks," Holladay, who was hit with 16 g's of force during roll, says as he lays out how he felt during filming. "I focused on my breathing and doing my job and hitting my marks. When the car is rolling, I hold on tightly to the safety harness and try to stay centered."

Elsewhere on set, a pyrotechnics team was also called in to set fire to a mannequin standing in for Gosling in a shot referencing Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album cover, while a VFX makeup artist got Gosling and Leitch a little bruised and bloody. But trust us, no beloved Hollywood actors were harmed in the process of shooting this cover.