Tony Hawk was fired asDavid Spadesstunt doublein 1987sPolice Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
Hawk was required to double as Spade in scenes with complicated skate tricks.
There was one hang-up with that.
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And I remember the director saying yknow, hes a pretty good skater but hes a bad stunt double!
and so then Stacy [Peralta, second unit director for skateboarding] kept telling me like Stay low.
I was trying, and then they just quietly sent me home.
Basically, I got fired.
Continuity errors ensued, because Miller skates with the opposite stance as Spade.
I can do five steps seven out of 10 times, Spade said.
Hawk completed the stunt.
Hawk learned about Hollywood stunt work-arounds during his stint.
What we learned in that shoot is we learned about stunt bumps, Hawk said on the podcast.
And we didnt know anything about that.
So if we pretended like something was really hard, they would give us extra money.
Hawk ended up with a credit in the movie as Skateboarder.
