“They needed someone to specialize on balance beam,” Hancock said. “They’re doing their acting and the minute they’re going to do their gymnastics we jump in and do the skill.”
Hancock said she caught the stunting bug with “Make It or Break It,” and she stayed with the show for 20 episodes.
In an attempt to branch out, Hancock decided to try other stunting skills.
“I learned some fight choreography ... I learned 40-foot-high falls and jumping off a roof and anything I could do to film,” she said.
Hancock was able to try new stunt skills through a free training program in Los Angeles run by stunt legend Bob Yerkes. Her videos and photos were posted online, and then the unexpected happened.
“The stunt coordinator (for “The Hunger Games”) called me and asked if I wanted to be in the movie,” she said. “He said they were giving (the movie) a code name so I knew it was kind of a big deal.”
Hancock was cast in the film last May and filmed over several weeks in June and again in August. She didn’t read “The Hunger Games” trilogy until she was on the plane on the way to Los Angeles.
Hancock worked with seven other stunt people, and initially spent a lot of time in a warehouse training the actors.
Source: Hggirlonfire.com
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