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The Canadian actor, known for roles in La La Land and The Notebook, also starred as a stuntman in last year's The Fall Guy.

For the stunt community, the lack of Oscar recognition had become a source of increasingly bitter frustration, starkly highlighted by Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” which finally landed Pitt an Oscar for his turn as a grizzled 1960s stuntman.

“While doing a stunt, Ice Cube punched one of the stuntmen in the face really hard, for real by accident. And the stuntman kind of knocked out for a second. And I was like, ‘Oh that can happen?’”

Actor and stuntman Derek Martin, who joined the soap 15 years later as Charlie Slater, explains he was also up for the role of Den.

Abortion abolitionism then got a major boost in the late 2010s, when some evangelical pastors began preaching about it, including Jeff Durbin, a charismatic former Hollywood stuntman, and Brian Gunter, a Louisiana pastor who helped spearhead the punitive legislation considered in that state.