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is just another stuntwoman.

Everyone looks so up to her...

and so I've got to follow

in her footsteps.

And sometimes it's hard.

Let me know when you're ready, Eurlyne.

You ready? OK.

All right, Eurlyne. Come on.

Hit your mark.

All righty. How was it?

I'm just out of practice, I think.

She's been too busy having kids.

When she was young

and building her career...

she was working a lot.

And then, you know,

she took time out to have babies...

which is almost like

a cardinal sin in Hollywood.

I don't know,

it just seems to work out.

I've got my Mom. If she's not

working, she can help me out.

She's been great with my kids.

Now do a seat drop. Do a seat drop.

OK, now can you--oops.

Jeannie's relationship

with her grandkids is quite unique.

Go on, Mathew, go! Go!

- Go, Matt! Come on, Mathew, go!

- Go, Matt!

Go, Matt, go! Go, go, go!

It gets difficult with the grandkids...

because she's got four of them,

and there's one on the way...

and she tries to spend as much time

as she can with them.

Jeannie,

are you going to ride, Jeannie?

You have to jump this way.

I'm going to jump that way.

But I think it would work better

the other way.

Tim is my husband, and

he's twenty years younger than me.

Tim may have taken on

more than he bargained for.

It's not the right way, Grandma.

You're not going to get enough speed.

Yeah, you are.

OK. I'm quitting.

I'm not coordinating anymore.

At times, Jeannie

will get a little overwhelmed...

because she tries to do

too much for everybody.

Our personalities clash at that point.

I know a lot of it has to do with--

she wonders...

whether or not she's getting too old

to be in the business.

I know it will be very hard for her

to give it up...

if indeed she has to do it one day.

But if she wants to work,

she can work until she's 105.

It's up to her.

When you're working

on a full-time show...

you're working

twelve, thirteen-hour days...

five, sometimes six days a week.

It looks good, though.

And it's hard because there's only...

a certain limited amount

of free time I have...

and it's hard to sort of share it

between friends and family and stuff.

We've had some great times

taking the videos of some of the stuff...

the rushes of some of the stuff

that she does as Xena...

we give them back

to her parents' house...

and we can fill them in

on the background...

of what was happening on that day.

Just do it and do it and do it.

And they run around and around

in circles.

And the guys just have to get up.

And they do their full "Huhh!"

Then they get--

- And again!

- Shh! Poof! Arg!

- Oh, Zoe, you're my hero.

- I know.

Six guys at once.

Six guys at once. Whoo!

Well, actually, it was six guys,

one at a time.

If they all came at me at once,

I don't know what I'd do.

I remember Zoe

would come home and say...

"Look at this bruise, Dad".

And she's proud of it, you know?

She's always really enjoyed her body

and known how far she can go with it.

She's always been a bit of a tomboy.

I was born and raised

on an island in New Zealand...

called Waiheke Island.

In my memories, it was always summer.

I was always on the beach.

I have the most incredibly cool

memories from Waiheke.

That's so fun!

I think what affected

her career choice, mainly...

was at the sweet age of two years...

Andrew bought her

an enormous trampoline.

She just started to bounce away...

and just bounced on throughout life...

to the sweet little age of twenty-two.

And three, two, one, go!

And go.

OK. Is that it?

Completely sideways. Hey.

I can do flips in a harness

with my eyes closed...

and totally know where I am.

- I'm turning this way.

- Oh, that way.

But when you start getting

any complications...

you have to understand

how the rigs work...

and what the angles mean.

Because it looks easy,

people assume it is easy.

Zoe will sit at the end of a string...

for two weeks if she absolutely has to.

And it's terrible. I know it's terrible.

Originally,

Lucy and Renee just cringed.

They would dread the day that

they had to get in the harnesses...

because they cut so horribly.

They just go up your crotch.

Three, two, one, go!

Go!

Go!

Not bad. That'll work.

- That was better.

- F***!

Quick as we can, please, guys.

Come on, whip it out, big guy.

Full house.

I've got to do probably two,

if not three angles on it...

in order to extend the flight, right?

Two.

I need to do two takes on each.

And three, two, one, go!

- Cutting.

- Heads!

So, there's enough spinning in there

for the front.

Yeah. There's a couple of things

you're going to have to tidy up.

Yeah. We just need it higher.

So, it was lower or the same?

Slightly, but not dramatically.

So, what the f*** does that mean?

It was slightly less powerful.

And three, two, one, go!

Cutting. Cut.

Shoulder?

Matty?

You all right, Zo-Zo?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When things go wrong...

no one wants to be seen to be

holding up the production...

and Zoe's the epitome of that.

- Hey, Zo.

- How do you feel?

Yeah. It's just dead.

OK, the thing is,

what is--that time there...

they feel the timing was out.

- I left early?

- You left early.

- Yeah. You spiraled early.

- Yeah. That--yeah.

We'll work on getting

this travel right, here.

And three, two, one, go!

Cutting.

- You OK?

- Yep.

You know that if you set a rig up,

and Zoe can't do it...

then you know there's

something wrong with your rig.

Jam in the rope?

No. It didn't feel like

it was pumping enough energy.

Good, but you might want to keep

the number of times down...

that she's doing this.

It's just damaging more and more now--

the more damage it's going to be.

Oh, we're just talking about how many

times you guys want to do this.

Well, we've said, "Lots".

Well, we'll have to get those "lots"

down to less.

I think we're running out of time.

Put down the schedule.

They're still going to be discussing it...

right up to the point

where we start to shoot her.

You know what I mean?

- How's your arm?

- It's all right.

It is?

That's a reservation

I wanted to put it away...

because it was only going

to be going like that, I felt.

Yeah.

- OK.

- Yeah.

She'll never lie around on the ground...

and make a big scene

of any injuries that she has.

And she's had a few nasty ones.

The girls do have a tougher job...

just because of the costumes

they've got, you know?

Just bare midriffs,

bare arms, bare legs and that.

And quite often they're doing gags

where they can't pad up.

Whereas, the men can pad up.

They've got baggy pants,

baggy shirts, and jackets.

The first rule of women of film...

is that they have to look good...

apparently.

Apparently, that's the first rule.

They've got the low-cut top,

they've got the sleeveless outfit.

Where do you put your pads?

Where do you put your protection?

You don't.

If you can't put it on the ground,

you got to bite it and go.

When I was doing "Wonder Woman"...

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