A Marvel Stuntwoman's Entire Routine, from Waking Up to Jumping Off Buildings | Allure

hi my name is carrie vernance and i'm a hollywood stunt woman and this is how it working i'm going to take you through 24 hours of my beauty and wellness routine when i was 2 years old i was jumping out of trees swimming in lakes oceans all of that i didn't know stunts existed until i moved to hollywood and boom i have never looked back i love the action the thrill jumping off buildings doing some crazy fights and you know bringing boom action to the scene i train four to six hours a day on average about 30 hours a week and i work on set minimum five days a week i've been in over a hundred different projects in the entertainment industry 20 different films 30 different tv shows more than 10 different video games lots of music videos i also have one two sag awards lots of action all over the screen i do a variety of stunts from fights to falls to car hits to riding cars doing some motorcycle stuff here there to a lot of wire work i'm like you know tinkerbell on the wires i do some flips acrobatics scuba diving swimming high falls i have my m1 license i can ride motorcycles i'm also scuba certified i also do a lot of horseback riding swords i got my black belt in taekwondo so i can kick some butt i also practice other forms of martial arts like wushu jiujutsu boxing i could do a lot of high kicks i love kicks if you name it i've probably done it i haven't done any fire stuff yet but hey bring them the fire you know what i mean yeah also speak six languages privilege russian holocaust spanish bonjour french swaki lavian nihanyi ming zulu mater in chinese and of course english the hardest challenge sometimes is being able to continue to diversify your skills and maintaining them so you don't lose in one area where you're still gaining in another [Music] good morning when i first wake up in the morning i stretch and say thank you god for waking me up and then the next thing i do is i roll around in my bed what are you doing get up and then i decide to sit and i do a meditation to allow my brain to just live and breathe without like being on my phone now i do hit this news and i also name my snoozes so my snooze actually says wake up queen let's slay the day or let's get this money or whatever the mood it is for the day after a good meditation it's only right to then celebrate summer make my bed celebrate waking up this morning and you know all the great things that i manifested in my meditation let's go and then after that i go and i start you know brushing my teeth because i don't do smelly breaths okay after i brush my teeth i clean my face because usually the night before i have some serum on my face i need to wipe that off and plus you know a little slobber all that so i use neutrogena i also use the organic skin care i love gigantics so today we're going to use organics and it's natural this is the lemon tea tree i then put on a little serum and then i put on some spf i think while doing black panther as well as doing avengers we filmed out in the sun a lot and at the time i did not really wear sunscreen neither did i know it was important for your skin and i realized really quickly that it was people were telling me all these facts about skin cancer if i'm going to set majority of time i don't wear makeup but i just do my eyebrows because eyebrows are important to me i think they make you look cute it is that v-i-t-a-m-i-n-s the vitamin part of the day you need something to boost your immune system and you need something to keep your energy uplifted and protect those strong bones we take cbd drops in the morning also in the evening too i leave it on my tongue for 30 to 60 seconds because that's the recommended usage what cbd does for me is helps release any tension on my muscles and so it doesn't get you high the cbd and it's actually really good for your body never mind so yeah i went into a whole british accident that's fine with you my diet is extremely important i believe that it's extremely important for me to make sure i eat five meals a day i love me a good hearty breakfast if i'm not going out to set i make sure i give me a well-rounded breakfast with eggs turkey bacon orange juice i take my vitamins maybe some yogurt if i'm filling it oh and of course some fruit because it helps with your fiber throughout the day like if i'm on the go if i'm running if i'm in between shots or let's just say that i happen to be in like a swimsuit this day and i'm doing a stunt or i'm doing some action then i want to keep my finger really low what i do is i grab these like herbaland protein gummies that are really good i think they have like 10 to 12 grams of protein in it and i pop a few in my mouth and they make me feel full they don't make me bloat at all i just bought me some herbal and electrolyte vitamins super good great for your day and it's right before i work out i then do my martial arts classes monday wednesday and friday with mike chat and xma which is extreme martial arts i do my morning routine set about yes i can and i go and i do it for about two and a half hours and we go hard he literally when we talk about discipline i mean this is discipline wake up early get it going the whole class usually 50 sleepy 50 not by the time we finish we're motivated we're ready to take on the world after that i have a few meetings that it's usually set up so i do accountability call every monday with my girls it's four of us we've been doing this for the last two and a half years and it was the purpose of like holding each other accountable with our goals and dreams and visions and stuff and i think one of the most essential things that you can do in this industry is to educate one another i also have a non-profit called cbc where i give back to kids in the memphis tennessee and los angeles community we focus on financial literacy reading literacy as well as exposing kids to opportunities outside of their community and i usually check in with our vice president belinda to see if there's anything that i need to do any programs that we have coming up during the summer i stretch consistently throughout the day i mean from the moment i wake up in the morning and i'm rolling in bed i stretch to the moment where i'm taking a meeting and i'm on a zoom call i probably have some weird stretch going on like this you know sometimes i randomly stretch and not even know i'm stretching it's so interesting but it definitely helps with my balance and my mobility as i do stunts and staying very flexible and ready to kick high all right what's up y'all we bout to go to stats so we got our big handy dandy stun bag we got all types of pads in here we are heading to set and the first thing you do by the way when you get to set you go check in with the sun coordinator so we can figure out what we're going to do today because every day is different you know might be one wreck one fall one jump i would also speak with the stock coordinator to see if there's anything in particular that he's looking for that he wants to work on and i take a look at it and i started practicing that routine so i know exactly what is going to happen on the day so i can come extremely prepared i think preparation is everything if you know what's going on i will say majority of the time i do not know what's going on until i make it to set and i make it to a rehearsal or on the day but because i have done this for so long and i'm quickly adapting to situations i can learn on the fly to be a good star woman you need great communication skills you need great listening skills you need to be able to adapt a situation very quickly because when you're on set things change very very quickly you also need to be able to pick up choreography fast a great memory because things do change on the fly and being able to adapt to that change is going to really save the scene save the day safety is everything safety is priority so if you're just going in for the fun of it deciding that you want to just go wild and out and not follow the beats or the choreography we can get somebody hurt and we don't want to do that i like to stay padded up i like to keep everything safe i like to figure out the best choreography and work with the fight coordinator as well as the stunt coordinator i'm making sure that i don't get any injuries and that i avoid having to do 17 shots to make sure that they got what they need fingerstyle woman a lot of injuries come along so i have been injured before on set on a few different sets doing stunts i sprained my ankle and also had a manufacturer in my hip bone that is healing thank god and a couple wide burns i stay powdered up i don't play with that i need my body but you know i also really trust my team they keep me very safe when i'm on set and i play a variety of characters that either a has prosthetics b has a lot of tattoos or c just wears a ton of makeup in addition to their costumes and having helmets on and stuff makeup is a huge deal so of course i get the makeup taken off by the makeup artist at the end of the day when we wrap but sometimes we still have a little sticky stuff that's left on our skin or tattoo residue that's left over so not only do i use like hot towels to really rinse and get everything off but sometimes i said i said a little oil in addition to like mixed with neutrogena or some type of facial skin clear and i just set it on my face and let it be there for a minute i make my towel as hot as i can do it and i let it sit on my face to like melt off everything now let's just say in a rare situation it doesn't come off sometimes then i get some olive oil and then i'll just like really rub it softly to just help get it off for some reason vegetable oil olive oil all that type of stuff really does help with stuff that does not want to get off get off i've shaved my head more than 200 times in the last four years in addition to having my hair dyed at least 15 different colors but when i did avengers end game there was a situation where one day we shaved my head and unfortunately my head had broken into a rash and i was like so afraid and so scared and it was so yucky one of the things that it taught me is that i need to really understand and start taking better care of my skin after a long day of work and doing stunts on set i love to use sony's wellness cbd drops it really helps me alleviate pain because pain is a huge deal and sometimes you don't feel it right away sometimes it takes a couple hours or sometimes you don't feel pain at all but because i put my body through so much wrecking kind of like if you get in a car accident it's like a little hit you don't really feel the effect of it until later so sony's wellness cbd helps me in addition to epsom salt baths are really essential in addition to ernika i love to use it on spots like it's kind of like the cooling hot that you put it on there where you have any paint at to just alleviate the muscles and stuff and i get a lot of massages i think massages are essential because your body needs some relieving of pressure it also needs that circulation and blood flow massages getting your back aligned through a chiropractor is essential to like really anybody is doing a lot of physical work because your body is your your sacred temple and you got gotta take care of it you know all right y'all it's been a long day so we're gonna get ready to go to the chiropractor appointment and of course a massage therapist because these legs and these bodies need to be worked out i tried my best to get chiropractic alignment at least once a week sometimes you don't know that something is off or out of whack until you go to the chiropractor and they like help you pop that bone into place and you're like oh geez how long has that been there once a month i'll go get some acupuncture done i really love chinese medicine because i lived in china for a year and i realized the essential use of acupuncture done in the right places to help with blood circulation and flow this is my nighttime routine i already had got my makeup taken off on set so my face is pretty bare but i take me some neutrogena fresh foam cleanser as i mentioned before sometimes we have a lot of prosthetics extra makeup a lot of stuff that goes on our face right and i'm gonna protect this this is a money maker right after a long day of work i do like one or two things i think i hop in the shower at first and i like just feel like a little relieved of like taking the work off of me and just kind of really setting up a different mood and just enjoying my night also because hair is a huge gel on set and my hair is multiple ways i wear lots of wigs and my hair is just always being shaved colored this that and the next i like to do deep conditioners in my hair i love using curls as well as shea moisture and i leave it in my hair deep conditioned sometimes i sleep with it overnight sometimes i put a bag over it to just make sure that my hair is okay because it's been dyed so many times or shaved so many times and i don't want my hair to fall out because i like my hair my favorite role being stopwoman so far was definitely marvel's black panther because i had a chance not only to do stunts but portray a character having to shave my head bald was quite a transformational experience i used to have 16 inches of hair like all the way down here like super long and honestly when i got the call for that job i was so excited so emotional it was like 6am in the morning of course i said yes it took a little minute actually i have to think about you know shaving my head because hair is a big deal but it made me reimagine what beauty really means and it's not just the outward appearance being a stump woman you're in a male dominated industry confidence is everything if you can focus on just like really loving yourself and being confident with who you are and what you have to offer the better you will be so my face actually has nothing on it is pretty dry and what i want to do because i really care about my face and i care about like breakouts and stuff like that i go ahead and i still set my face with a toner so i'm going to use the organics actually it's 100 rose water toner and daily refresher spice for your love egg i'm gonna use this vitamin c plus because vitamin c is really good for your skin and this also has anti-aging cream this is uh called the advanced snails 96 mucin power essence serum and what this does is it helps block in more moisture it also helps just less moisture in your skin it helps keep it smooth and healthy if it was a crazy hard day of work and i did a lot of like stunts and actions and falls i might grab myself an adult drink and then i stretch and i just stretch and i stretch and i stretch to watching like a favorite tv show or i put some music on or i listen to a podcast and then i usually call my mom or friends and stuff like that then i kind of go about my day just get other stuff organized and take care of of this thing called adulting which is sometimes very interesting but also really cool so right now what i'm gonna actually put the pain relief is on my hands because my hands are a little sore i've been doing a lot of motocross and motorbike stuff my hand is a little bit cramped up and in some pain and i'm going to do some of my feet and you know what we're going to move to you're correct if you guess we're going to journal yay just like write down the things that i'm really grateful for and to just like sometimes i journal my entire day it is extremely important to have a work-life balance i remember a situation where i was running myself in i was doing so much stuff i was on set constantly doing stunts voiceovers i did acting i did this i did that and i had team no sleep four hours a day and then boom i was the craziest sickest person ever and i was in and out the doctor hospital had a iv in me and it slowed down my metabolism like big time and what that taught me was that i had no work life balance i was rarely getting any sleep and i really did not take my health as a priority and getting an essential number of hours of sleep and not just being so work focused 24 7. it could kill you that's the truth sally and i think that the biggest thing i've learned is like hey look guess what tomorrow is going to be another day and you can get the rest of the stuff done and you can pass it on or you become more efficient with the stuff that you do in the time that you set for yourself get some sleep and also have fun enjoy your life don't forget to live i go to bed really just depends on what time i get off set some days on set literally goes anywhere between a 12 hour day to like a 16 17 hour day so if it's a really late day and we started like 5 30 in the morning and we end at like 10 11 midnight the next day i am exhausted so when i get home that means i've usually already ate dinner on set and i love dinners on set because first off set food be good you have a lot of options you got the vegan options vegetarian if you like meat you got steak chicken all that stuff there and you got unlimited snacks i mean i love the snacks let's be real you're just like a car if without gasoline you can't run without food you're not going to function that well and for me i eat a lot and my food unfortunately goes through my body so quickly that's why it's important for me to make sure i eat breakfast lunch snacks in between dinner a snack after and then when i get home from set sometimes i'll eat another snack or another dinner because i burn so much energy off when i do my stunts and when i do my fighting the most rewarding part of my job is when i see an actor i double their face looking at the action sequence that i did for them in addition to seeing like little young girls come up to me and say you did that you played that character how like i want to be a stunt woman too so to just see a girl reimagine the opportunity to see themselves as a go-getter as a bad azz if you can say that you know what i mean and just like go out and kill it so many girls look at this career as like a male-dominated industry and to allow them to see a female going out and taking control and throwing down fights and bringing in the action is really cool so i like seeing the little girl's eyes light up little boys too you know people of color all the people yeah being a black stunt woman was rare back in the day but now it's a growing community it still is a necessity for us to bring up more stunt women because we are challenging the status quo but now there are a lot of opportunities opening up for people of color that are doing stunts such as black stunt women so if you want to be a stunt woman look you can do it baby most evenings i drink hot water with lemon it helps with the ph balancing your body in addition to the vitamin c from potassium and magnesium that it offers to just like get your bloodstream rolling and detoxifying any agents that's left in your body the day before because i'm upset a lot and i do eat a lot of snacks at sunset because sometimes i'm standing around for a while or sometimes i'm doing a whole lot of stuff and i'm just eating a whole lot of things i think it's very important to like really maintain that ph balance in your body and to get rid of like any bad things that may be stuck in there i usually go to bed so about between i would say 11 and 11 30 pm because i usually have very very full long days all right peace out thank you so much oh lord for doing this feature on me i am extremely grateful and i'm so excited that you all stuck along to see my entire journey i hope that you have a beautiful blessed and a wonderful day peace and love carrie vernon and i'm out

Channel: Allure

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Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 03 2021

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A bad azz indeed she is so cool and beautiful and got this thing called adulting under her belt next to her taekwondo belts. I will start drinking hot water with lemon in the evenings as well !