Gemma Arterton's stunt fall
007's Kiwi stunt double is neither shaken nor stirred by suggestions he's stepping out with Bond girl Gemma Arterton.
Ben Cooke, who stands in for Daniel Craig in the hit movies, played down rumours of a romance with the English actor ahead of tonight's World Stunt Awards, where he is in line for a top award.
Speaking from Philadelphia, Cooke said he heard a month ago of his nomination in the best high work category.
The nomination was for a sequence in last year's Quantum of Solace, in which Bond and a villain swung through a gallery on ropes up to 20m off the ground.
"It's more about the sequence and the way it was put together, all the technical rigging," he said.
British-born, New Zealand-raised Cook's "date" for the ceremony, in Los Angeles tomorrow, will be "one of my best mates", fellow Kiwi Zoe Bell...
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