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performer, actor and JMP Productions Vice President Julie Michaels feels are the top qualities it takes to make it: "Ethics, athleticism, integrity, camaraderie, and the ability to continually reinvent yourself. You've got to be an actor. You have to be able to do it all these days," she said. Michaels points out that one of the most important elements of want to consider what stunt 1 What does it take to be a stunt performer? Prospective stunt performers might can do, if you're not really forthright, that's when things go wrong," Michaels said. But above all, stunt performers are professionals. They take their work coordinating and executing a stunt is communication, and it can be just as much a factor before the job even begins: You need to acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses, both to others and yourself. "If you're not honest about what you 2 seriously and do everything they can to ensure that they and their fellow performers go home safely. But, at the same time, no matter their age, there's still a youthful twinkle in their eyes. SAG-AFTRA Stunt & Safety and Indians for a living. Cops and robbers," he said. athleticism,… Ethics, Committee Co-Chair Conrad E. Palmisano puts it all in perspective. "Basically we're still playing cowboys 3 camaraderie,… integrity, 5 reinvent yourself. and the ability to continually 4 1. Matthew Ashford, Melissa Reeves, Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso dodge glass in Days of Our Lives. 2. Southland star Ben McKenzie did this rooftop-to-rooftop jump more than 165 feet in air with the training and coordination of Peewee Piemonte. 3. An explosion rocks a building on an episode of CSI: NY. 4. Stunt performer Trampas Thompson is engulfed in flames on the set of Southland. 5. Alex O'Loughlin hovers in a helicopter in Hawaii Five-0. SAGAFTRA.org | Fall 2012 | SAG-AFTRA 29 1. Chris Haston/NBC; 2.& 4. Doug Hyun/Turner Entertainment Networks Inc.; 3. Sonja Flemming/CBS; 5. Norman Shapiro/CBS