"It was just a lot of fun. The whole process was a lot of fun. Working with Zack is always the best, and this was nice because we got back to, like, business as usual."
Richard Cetrone, Be More Super - The Podcast
Richard Cetrone (born July 13, 1961), is an American actor and stunt performer with a long and strong history working with Cruel and Unusual Films and The Stone Quarry. He was a part of every live action feature film from Cruel and Unusual Films, and every live action project from The Stone Quarry until Army of Thieves in 2021. He was a stunt performer for Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, 300: Rise of an Empire, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, Justice League, and Zack Snyder's Justice League. He was also a co-fight choreographer for Watchmen, and portrayed CJ (an asylum orderly) in Sucker Punch, Tor-An (a Kryptonian insurrectionist) in Man of Steel, a fight club spectator and Bat Creature in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the antagonist of Army of the Dead, Zeus. He will appear again in an undisclosed role for Rebel Moon.
Cetrone appeared alongside other cast and crew of Batman v Superman for a charity Q&A panel at Zack Snyder: The Director's Cuts.
Cetrone, Wayne Dalglish, Allen Jo, Steve Brown, and Guillermo Grispo were nominated for the Best Fight award by the Taurus World Stunt Awards. The scene was the warehouse fight, in which Cetrone portrayed Batman as Ben Affleck's double.
Biography[]
Cetrone performed his first stunt work in the 1995 movie 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up, but his first acting gig was in Mission of Justice (1992), as the Gauntlet. He started working with Zack Snyder right from Zack's start in cinema, performing stunts in Dawn of the Dead, then continued working with Snyder as a stunt performer and actor for all Snyder's live-action, directorial films. He has appeared in every installment of the Underworld film series except Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) and often has small acting roles in the projects for which he performs stunts.
Projects[]
As cast[]
Watchmen
As crew[]
Stunts
Stunt double (Astinos)
Stunts
Stunt double (David Thewlis)
Stunt double (Ben Affleck)
Stunt double (Ben Affleck)