Kevin Hart Says He Stopped Doing His Own Stunts After Ice Cube Knocked Out His Double During ‘Ride Along’ | Video

Kevin Hart‘s return to “Hot Ones” was filled with spice-induced struggles, jokes and a surprising behind-the-scenes revelation thanks to his stunt double’s unfortunate punch to the face

While facing down the Wings of Death (again) on Thursday, Hart told “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans the reason why he stopped trying to do his own stunts. “I got a good [story] about Ice Cube,” Hart began. “We were doing ‘Ride Along.’ While doing the stunt, Ice Cube punched one of the stuntmen in the face for real by accident, and the stunt guy kind of [got] knocked out for a second. I was like, ‘Oh! That can happen? We can actually get hit?'”

“I remember Cube just hugging the stunt guy like, ‘You are going to be all right,'” Hart continued, laughing. “The stunt guy was like, ‘No, I’m alright,’ [and] you [could] just see his nose bleeding a little bit.” The moment changed Hart’s on-set philosophy forever.

“From that day on, I stopped with the idea of wanting to do stunts,” the actor and comedian revealed. “The energy that I used to have … younger me was like, ‘Throw me on the f—king table! You have got to slam me? Go ahead. Just do it, do one take so we get the real reaction.’ But now I’m 45. I don’t even want to run.”

You can watch the full “Hot Ones” interview in the video below.

After sharing his “Ride Along” story, Hart took a moment to show some love to the stunt community, saying, “Those guys do not get enough credit, man. There should be a stunt award. They really do not get enough love. Some of these movies that you have watched and fallen in love with where guys are falling from buildings or going through windows or falling down cliffs — they are using real people for that. I have seen some stuntmen get f—ked up and I have seen the director go, ‘We did not get it. Hey Gary, you think you got another one?'”

While Hart did not hide his displeasure over the spice levels of the show’s central wings, he did take the time at the end of his “Hot Ones” interview to congratulate Evans and the online series for its 10-year anniversary.

“What a run. 10 years of it,” he said, as he held his final wing in the air. “We talk about being groundbreaking. Well people, embrace what ‘Hot Ones’ is, okay? This is groundbreaking. This is a show that redefined what unscripted IP looks like. You really want to break this s—t down? You are looking at the f—king unicorn. This is why other horses started to run.”

You can watch the full interview in the video above.

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