Thunderbolts* stunt performer breaks down Bucky Barnes epic motorcycle scene and the last-minute script addition

Wild ride.Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” features an epic scene where Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) shows up on a motorcycle to save his allies, including Yelena (Florence Pugh), from Valentina’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) agents.Joe Dryden, the stunt performer and coordinator who rode the Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 ST in place of Stan, 42, exclusively spoke to The Post about how the team pulled off the thrilling moment.“The majority of my free ride work, we shot on a splinter unit,” Dryden said.

“We were at the exact same location.They were just further down the road with [director] Jake [Schreier] and the cast were a little further away.

And then we would meet up and shoot some stuff together, but then we’d kind of break off and do some stuff in a smaller unit.”“And in that smaller unit was just a lot of people that have worked a lot together,” Dryden continued.“George Cottle, second unit director, who’s brilliant, he was around for it.

[Stunt coordinator] Heidi [Moneymaker] was involved.And then our stunt drivers were around me.

And even our camera vehicle operator and company owner is my best friend.So we’ve done so much together.

That little unit works super well together.It’s calm, collected.

Everybody knows what they’re doing.”Dryden explained that they spent three weeks shooting Bucky’s motorcycle scene in Utah.“I went to Georgia first in February [2024].I also went to Utah to scout,” he recalled.

“First to look at the road, which is something that I never get to do.And again, that’s a huge credit to Heidi to make sure that I was prepared for what we were doing is involving me in the scouts.

And even Jake in the very beginning was so cool about just saying, ‘Hey, look, if the boards aren’t gonna work or we think there’s a better way to do this or there’s something cooler, let me know what it is.'”“And we did collaboratively as a team come up with something a little different than the original concept...