Shadowing Practice: Behind Tom Holland's Dangerous Stunts In Uncharted - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Tom Holland goes wild with those stunts.
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And please understand, he's not as invincible as his spidey counterpart for those dangerous scenes in Uncharted.
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Want to know more?
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Let's look at some of the most dangerous stunts that Tom endured.
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For our enjoyment, of course.
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Number 1.
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This scene was just too complex for us to take on in one segment.
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So we'll just go ahead and start off with those crates.
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Of course, they wouldn't have a world famous actor jump out of a plane,
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so VFX coordinators utilized a robotic arm and some blue screen to really place him in the safest harm they could.
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The final look certainly fooled us, and have no fear, because even the crates were fake.
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Yes, that's right, it looks to us they opted for a softer material than wood, and good thing too, because jumping onto a wooden crate screams splinters to us.
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Number 2.
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Part 2 of Tom's Most Dangerous Stunt is actually the start of it.
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It all begins with an unsecured car ramming Nathan Drake off a plane.
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This time, it pretty much felt like Tom was actually getting hit by one for real.
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It didn't take just one time to get the scene right.
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It took a whopping 17 takes over a series of weeks to finally sell the hit.
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Poor Tom really had to work out with this one
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so my parents were always like why are you
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so tired all the time
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but wait it gets worse holland's own mother was unlucky enough to visit the set
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and witness her boy amidst the chaos we can only imagine
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how many times she screamed at tom to look both ways
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number three there are worse things than being hit by blue
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car how about being injured during a sword fight fortunately not the sword accident you were thinking about
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but tom did get some pretty bad tendinitis while sword fighting alongside Mark Wahlberg.
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He assures everyone that any swordplay is not in his future, saying he will never do it again.
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And even worse, he had to jump on a flight while recovering to film Spider -Man No Way Home.
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Seriously, his break from acting couldn't have come sooner.
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He needs an ice bath.
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Number 4 Tom took a nasty fall on some rooftop tiles during a pretty chaotic rooftop scene.
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Who knew falling on a bunch of hard roof tiles could do so much damage?
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And the damage to his body was pretty severe, describing his injured hips being black and blue after the incident.
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But like all of his stunts gone wrong, Tom always walked away with his body and mind intact, saying, I walked away from every stunt,
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but I definitely limped from a few.
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Number 5.
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How does one convincingly skydive in front of a blue screen?
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Well, it takes a whole lot of wires.
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They hooked Tom up with a ton of them, spinning him around in every direction.
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They even subjected him to hanging upside down and flailing about.
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Good thing he's used to this kind of thing, because this would have made us sick within the first two seconds.
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Number 6.
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One word for this one, ouch.
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Holland's heavy stunt work wasn't always protected by harnesses, as it is apparent in this painful looking scene.
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Instead of using a stunt double, he just really wanted to be slammed in the side of a table we guess.
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Our question is, how do you just walk away from that one?
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Number 7.
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Tom Holland doesn't have a huge fancy for wires and harnesses, and that chandelier leap really needed a whole lot of them.
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He really trusted those stunt coordinators to keep those strings strong, and luckily he walked away unscathed.
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But even with all those strings, if just one of them broke, things could have ended badly for our Spidey actor.
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Number 8.
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An A -lister's teeth are kind of their forte, So any risk to those shiny chompers has got to go.
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Holland always had to wear a ring around his neck.
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And this ring kept bouncing up and hitting his teeth.
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But as he expressed his concerns to the prop master, they were able to make a simple fix with a rubber alternative.
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Number 9.
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Like we've hinted at throughout this video, Tom really doesn't like wires.
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It seems like he got injured more often than not on them.
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Doing all those high kicks probably did a number on his hamstrings things.
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We guess he'll be taking a long hard look at future roles, because the way he describes it, they did more harm than good.
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Number 10.
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Holland went from amateur to stunt professional in a very short amount of time.
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All of the training he had received prior to Uncharted really made the preparation for the film more, you could say, simple.
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His Peter Tingle really came in handy and worked well with Mark.
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Although, Tom reportedly worked hard to impress his co -star.
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Little did he know that Wahlberg was just acting old to get away from the heavy stunts.
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We're so glad to see Tom Holland make it out of this one intact.
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Not to say he may be angry with himself a few years down the road, but knowing he did this for his own satisfaction, it seems like everything worked out just fine in the end.
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Do you think we'll see Tom get a little more dangerous with his stunts in the future?
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Let us know in the comments.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Behind Tom Holland's Dangerous Stunts In Uncharted”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: tom, stunt, Holland, scene, dangerous. This video has 71 sentences and 916 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:09. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| stunt noun | /stʌnt/ | A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. |
| injure verb | /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. |
| spidey noun | A spider. | |
| rooftop noun | /ˈɹufˌtɑp/ | The area atop a roof. |
| harness verb | /ˈhɑɹ.nəs/ | To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain. |
| tile noun | /ˈtaɪ.əl/ | A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc. |
| coordinator noun | An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense. | |
| intact adjective | /ɪnˈtækt/ | Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied, or otherwise damaged. |
| scream verb | /skɹiːm/ | To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek. |
| chandelier noun | /ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪɚ/ | A branched, often ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling. |
| chomper noun | /ˈt͡ʃɑmpɚ/ | A tooth. |
| convincingly adverb | /kənˈvɪn.sɪŋ.li/ | In a convincing manner. |
| hamstring noun | /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ | One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. |
| invincible adjective | /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/ | Impossible to defeat, destroy, or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome. |
| skydive noun | /ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/ | An instance of skydiving. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| walk away from verb | To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| ring around verb | To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something. | |
| take over verb | To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force. | |
| walk away verb | To withdraw from a problematic situation. | |
| walk away with verb | To win (a competition or contest) handily or by a large margin. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 11 contractions and reduced forms, such as doesn't, we'll, couldn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chandelier /ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪɚ/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: convincingly /kənˈvɪn.sɪŋ.li/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, tendinitis /ˌtɛn.dəˈnaɪ.tɪs/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/, reportedly /ɹɪˈpɔːtɪdli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like stunt, injure, spidey.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.