Gabriel Basso Does His Own Stunts on The Night Agent

Gabriel Basso he prefers to do his own stunts whenever possible.

“I think that can be misconstrued into a world like, I’m doing it because I want to say I can do it, and it’s not really about that,” The Night Agent star, 30, during an appearance on Tuesday, January 14, on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. “For me it’s about immersing an audience.”

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

“I don’t want the audiences to watch the show, and then right as I’m about to be hit or kneed or thrown on my back, you know. I feel it’s a lie,” said the actor. “I enjoy acting, I don’t like to lie.”

For Basso, he sees it as a “difference” in executing stunts in order to “immerse the audience” and “for credibility.”

“They like Peter (and) watching him take hits is important, I feel like,” he explained. “And if that requires me to be thrown into a wall, then fine. It’s not the end of the world.”

One stunt which was on the table for Basso skydiving – which he is already doing in his personal life.

“(Netflix) brought it up as an idea and then I was like, ‘Oh, I’m already skydiving. I’ll do it,’” Basso said. “But then he called insurance and was like, ‘Yeah, stop it.'”

Fallon then showed a photo of Basso skydiving.

“I went down to Skydive San Diego,” Basso explained of the photo of him soaring through the air. “I got my Class A re-certified”

The late night host then realized he was holding the photo of Basso in the air upside down. Basso threw the photo of him in the air “looking cooler the other way” as his back was apparently facing the ground.

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

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Last month, Basso made an epic leap from the Netflix blimp during a Christmas Day football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans. Basso parachuted out of the blimp in Houston. After completing the stunt, he then revealed that the season 2 trailer for The Night Agent let go

“It was cool to see Houston from a blimp. Definitely a memory!” Basso said to me Tudum Netflix in December 2024.

The Night Agent season 2 premieres on Netflix on Thursday, January 23.