'Skyfall' Stuntman Damien Walters Lands Backflip Over Speeding Formula Race Car (Video)

Hollywood stuntman and Daniel Craig‘s “Skyfall” double Damien Walters backflipped over a Formula E car without effort, although the racer was speeding toward him at 60 mph.

Walters dubbed the stunt “Leap of Faith,” saying, “I have done some other crazy things, but this was definitely one of the worst for sure. Had I jumped too early, I would have hit the back of the car with my head, and if I jumped too late, the car would have hit my legs.”

In the video, we can see Walters preparing for the jump several times, performing the flip beside the moving car, until he perfected the jump and landed the dangerous dismount.

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Walters has also performed dangerous stunts before, including leaping from one car to another while his body was on fire. He is Michael Fassbender‘s stunt double in the upcoming “Assassin’s Creed.”

Watch the video.

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Colin Firth's "The Kingsman: Secret Service" masks bloody, violent super-umbrella madness with Saville Row suits and a posh accent.
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"Skyfall" has Daniel Craig boarding a train by using a dig machine to rip the roof off, jumping from the crane and landing with enough room to adjust his cufflink.
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Suction-cup gloves and the largest tower in Dubai? Apparently no problem for Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible: 4."
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While we love Uma Thurman slicing and dicing the Crazy 88 in "Kill Bill," that's a lot of carnage from one person, one sword and one dope track suit.
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Tom Cruise braving the atmosphere clinging to the side of a jet in "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" -- in a tuxedo -- has got to be one of the biggest stretches in history. Well played.
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For Vin Diesel and co., "Furious 7" sees a ton of muscle cars dispense from an aircraft, parachute to the paved road thousands of feet below and switch immediately into gear.
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"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" was a worthy sequel in terms of laughs and ass-kicking, but driving a truck over a bridge to have Cameron Diaz fire up a chopper on the flatbed and save the day? OK.
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Vin Diesel's character in "XXX" outran an avalanche on a snowboard. As one does.
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Call this the most localized super-stunt: in 2009, Jason Statham starred in "Crank 2: High Voltage," wherein his character jump starts his own body with cables and a car battery, then runs for miles at, well, high voltage.
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