HE'S JON CAPPS - STUNT DRIVER


 

Ron Capps might be a rockstar Funny Car driver, but his brother Jon, well ... he's a movie star. Well, kind of sorta.

Jon, who drives a nostalgia Funny Car in the NHRA Heritage Series, works as a stunt driver in Hollywood and is currently working on a new movie scheduled to come out. The theme of the film is the 1966 edition of the 24-hours of LeMans

"It’s about the feud between Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford," Capps revealed. "So Ferrari was kicking everybody’s butt, and Ford, there were some things that went down with purchasing companies, and so Ford decided he was going to build the baddest race car there is, and ever was, and so he basically told Enzo to go pack sand and I’m going to build a GT40 and come kick your butt.

"That was in 1964, and he hired Dan Gurney, he hired a bunch of other guys, and Shelby and all those guys, Ken Miles and all those guys, and built a GT40 and went to Le Mans in 1966 finished 1, 2, 3."

Capps said the coolest part of working in the movie is the company he's been able to keep.

"The cool thing about this movie is some of the stunt guys we have driving, we’ve got Alex Gurney, Dan Gurney’s son, we’ve got Jeff Bucknum who is Ronnie Bucknum’s son, all drove GT 40’s that year," Capps explained. "We’ve also got Phil Hill’s son driving on it. So we’ve got three of the four guys that raced that year, their sons are actually doing stunt work in the movie, and they’re all super accomplished race car drivers themselves, between open-wheel cars and prototype cars. It’s just been amazing."

The movie, which apparently is unnamed at the time, according to Capps, will feature prominent actors such as Matt Damon, Christian Bale as well as Jon Bernthal.

"We’ve been doing some amazing stunt work," Capps said. "We are going to wrap it up here in the next couple weeks, and I can’t wait for it to come out next June."

Capps remains mum on who his stunts are for.

"Some people will say that it’s the role I was born to act," Capps admitted. "I don’t have any speaking roles, I’m just a stunt guy, but there’s one specific guy that I drive a car, and it will become evident.

"I’ve had a blast, and I’ve had some headaches."

 

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