The Night Agent’s Gabriel Basso Does His Own Stunts: ‘I Don’t Like Lying’

Gabriel Basso arsenic Peter Sutherland successful The Night Agent. Christopher Saunders/Netflix

Gabriel Basso prefers to bash his ain stunts whenever possible.

“I deliberation that tin benignant of get misconstrued into the satellite of like, I bash it due to the fact that I privation to accidental I tin bash it, and it’s truly not astir that,” The Night Agent star, 30, said during a Tuesday, January 14, quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “To maine it’s astir assemblage immersion.”

Basso stars successful the Netflix bid arsenic FBI cause Peter Sutherland, who works successful the White House arsenic a Night Action telephone operator. He told Fallon, 50, that erstwhile the assemblage watches The Night Agent, helium wants them to consciousness that his show is believable.

“I don’t privation the audiences watching the show, and past close arsenic I’m astir to get deed oregon hep tossed oregon thrown connected my back, you know. I consciousness similar it’s a lie,” the histrion said. “I bask acting, I don’t similar lying.”

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For Basso, helium views it arsenic there’s a “difference” erstwhile it comes to executing stunts for the “sake of the assemblage immersion” and “the involvement of believability.”

“They similar Peter [and] to ticker him instrumentality hits is important, I consciousness like,” helium explained. “And if that requires maine to get tossed into a wall, past fine. It’s not the extremity of the world.”

Gabriel Basso arsenic Peter Sutherland successful The Night Agent. Courtesy of Netflix

One stunt that was connected the array for Basso was skydiving — which helium already does successful his idiosyncratic life.

“[Netflix] brought it up arsenic an thought and past I was like, ‘Oh I already skydive. I’ll bash it,’” Basso said. “But past security called and was like, ‘Yeah halt it.’”

Fallon past showed a photograph of Basso skydiving.

Gabriel Basso arsenic Peter Sutherland successful The Night Agent. Greg Noire/Netflix

“I went down to Skydive San Diego,” Basso explained of the photograph of him soaring successful the air. “I got my A-Class recertified”

The precocious nighttime big past realized helium was holding the photograph of Basso successful the aerial upside down. Basso quipped the photograph of him successful the entity “looked cooler the different way” arsenic his backmost was seemingly facing the ground.

“I similar that. That’s hard to do,” Fallon teased earlier re-enacting the airs successful his chair. “You truly gotta arch your back.”

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Last month, Basso made an epic leap retired of Netflix’s blimp during the Christmas Day shot crippled betwixt the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texas. Basso parachuted retired of the blimp successful Houston. After completing the stunt, helium subsequently revealed that the play 2 trailer for The Night Agent dropped.

“It was chill to spot Houston from a blimp. Definitely a memory!” Basso said to Netflix’s Tudum successful December 2024.

The Night Agent play 2 premieres connected Netflix connected Thursday, January 23.