Ryan Gosling Reveals the One Fall Guy Stunt His Daughters ‘Specifically’ Asked Him Not to Do
Ryan Gosling wanted to get in on the action in his new movie, The Fall Guy. His daughters, however, had demands.

“My kids didn't want me to be set on fire,” the actor-producer, 43, tells PEOPLE exclusively. Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 8, who he shares with longtime partner Eva Mendes, 50, “asked specifically” that he avoid any pyrotechnics.

“Even though I said, ‘Well, it's actually, technically the safer thing to do because there's a lot of protective stuff involved,’” recalls Gosling of the trick — which entails fire-resistant clothing and special protection gel — his daughters nevertheless “were like, ‘No. No fire.’ So I didn't do it.”

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Ben Jenkin, one of several doubles who helped Gosling bring the character of stuntman Colt Seavers to life, did the stunt instead. His fire burn, as it’s called, was completed a total of eight times. The Fall Guy (in theaters Friday, May 3), loosely based on Lee Majors’ 1980s TV series of the same name, was conceived as an homage to the filmmaking community, particularly those who make spectacle possible: the stunt professionals who Gosling calls the “unsung heroes” of the biz.At the March 13 SXSW premiere of the David Leitch-directed movie, Gosling told PEOPLE it was “important” that he do “a few” of his own stunts — despite a fear of heights. While the actor "would have been happy to say I did none of my own stunts in this movie," he wanted to get closer to the work his movie was honoring. “It helped me to understand exactly on some small level what [stunt professionals] do every day.”