Being thrown down a flight of stairs, hit by a car, or beaten up is everyday life for stuntwomen. The scenes with burning cars or collisions are spectacular, but the roles in which they are beaten up are much harder to watch. Usually they play the role of the victim, because few action movies have female heroes. It’s a shocking and fascinating realization: stuntwomen are hired to endure violence, while the task of their male colleagues is to inflict it.