There was only one problem: puberty.
The athlete discussed his brief tenure as Spade’s skating double on the comedian’s podcastFly on the Wall.
There was just one problem: puberty.
Tony Hawk; David Spade.Paul Harris/Getty Images; Warner Brothers
and so then Stacy [Peralta, second unit director for skateboarding] kept telling me like ‘Stay low.
I was trying, and then they just quietly sent me home.
Basically, I got fired."
Spade played Kyle Rumford, a skating delinquent who joins the COP program as punishment for his crimes.
Though Hawk was dismissed as Spade’s double, he still made a brief appearance in the movie.
“I can do five steps seven out of 10 times,” Spade said.
Since Spade whiffed the take, Peralta had Hawk complete the stunt instead.
The skater said the trick was “Not nothing, but it was doable.”
Hawk also explained that the movie taught him a valuable lesson about stunt work.
“And we didn’t know anything about that.
So if we pretended like something was really hard, they would give us extra money.”
Hawk still ended up with a credit in the movie as “Skateboarder.”
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