


He and his team of cars must drive in synchronized formation like ground-level Blue Angels, capturing all of the complicated, costly effects without getting into a fiery wreck.

If a stunt driver pulls off the craziest maneuver in movie history and there wasn’t a camera to catch it, did it actually happen? No offense to the bulging biceps of Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson, but all that adrenaline-soaked action is the real star of The Fast & Furious 6-and it would never make it to the big screen without camera car driver Allan Padelford.Ī veteran of the last three Fast & Furious films, Padelford’s job sounds simple: drive alongside (or behind, or in front) of the action and catch it on film as actors hang from cars and tanks crush highway dividers.
