Oldenburg Festival Gives Its Flowers to Stunt Legend Zoë Bell

Zoë Bell's getting recognized where it counts—at the Oldenburg Festival, which is throwing a full tribute to the New Zealand stuntwoman and actress who basically helped shape modern action cinema.

Most know Bell from doubling Uma Thurman on those legendary truck roof scenes in Kill Bill—the kind of real-deal stunt work that made Tarantino's vision actually feel dangerous. But she's done way more than hide behind another actor's face. She stepped in front of the camera as herself in Death Proof, playing a character tough enough to match Kurt Russell beat-for-beat, and more recently showed up in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as part of Tarantino's baroque fever dream of '60s Hollywood.

What makes this tribute matter is simple: stunt workers are the invisible backbone of cinema, and Bell's one of the few who broke through to become a legit name. She didn't just take bumps—she pioneered a way for stunt performers to get proper recognition. The festival honoring that legacy says something about how the industry's slowly learning to look back and say thanks.

This is the kind of recognition that should've come sooner, but at least it's coming.

Read the full story at The Hollywood Reporter → https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oldenburg-festival-honors-kill-bill-stunt-legend-zoe-bell-1236672844/