Gabriel Basso does his own stunts in The Night Agent

Gabriel Basso prefers to perform his own stunts whenever possible.

“I think this can be a little bit misinterpreted into the world of, I’m doing it because I want to say I can do it, and that’s really not the point,” The Night Cop star, 30, said during an appearance on Tuesday, January 14 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “For me, it’s about audience immersion.”

Basso stars in the Netflix series as FBI agent Peter Sutherland, who works in the White House as a Night Action telephone operator. He told Fallon, 50, that when the audience is watching The Night Cophe wants them to feel that his performance is believable.

“I don’t want the audience watching the show, and then right at the moment I’m about to get hit, or hip thrown, or thrown on my back, you know. I feel like it’s a lie,” the actor said. “I like acting, I don’t like lying.”

For Basso, he considers it a “difference” when it comes to performing stunts for the sake of audience immersion and “for the sake of credibility.”

‘They like Peter [and] It’s important to see him hitting, I think,” he explained. ‘And if that means being thrown against a wall, fine. It’s not the end of the world.”

One stunt on the table for Basso was skydiving, which he already does in his personal life.

“[Netflix] brought it up as an idea and then I thought, ‘Oh, I already skydive. I’ll do it,'” Basso said. “But then the insurance company called and said, ‘Yes, stop it.'”

Fallon then showed a photo of Basso skydiving.

“I went to Skydive San Diego,” Basso explained of the photo of him floating in the air. “I have recertified my A-Class”

The night host then realized that he was holding Basso’s photo upside down in the air. Basso joked that the photo of him in the air “looked cooler the other way” while his back was apparently facing the ground.

“I like that. That’s hard to do,” Fallon teased before reenacting the pose in his chair. “You really have to arch your back.”

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Last month, Basso made an epic leap from Netflix’s hot air balloon during the Christmas Day football game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texas. Basso parachuted from the hot air balloon in Houston. After completing the stunt, he then revealed that the season 2 trailer was available The Night Cop decreased.

“It was cool to see Houston from a hot air balloon. Definitely a memory!” Basso said Netflix’s Tudum December 2024.

The Night Cop Season 2 premieres on Netflix on Thursday, January 23.