Jay Baruchel Bursts with Canadian Pride with 'The Stunt Driver' Premiere at TIFF

Jay Baruchel bursts with Canadian pride with 'The Stunt Driver' premiere at TIFF

TORONTO - Jay Baruchel says he's happy to use the fame he's won from Hollywood to boost the film industry at home.

‘The Stunt Driver’ Review: Jay Baruchel Plays a Canadian Daredevil Trying to Pull Off an Impossible Stunt in a Fun 1970s Throwback

“Ken Carter jumps cars for a living, and people like to see him do it,” declares Gordon Pinsent, narrator of the 1981 National Film Board of Canada-produced documentary “The Devil at Your Heels,” over footage of the man in question being driven away in an ambulance after smashing up his ankle attempting to vault a ’64 Chevy over 12 cars. It’s a concise description of the stuntman and daredevil’s personal ambition and the mortal failure he risks …

Jay Baruchel & Michael Dowse Talk 'The Stunt Driver'; Tease Sitcom

Jay Baruchel & Michael Dowse tease their upcoming sitcom and Jay's WW2 fighter pilot pic in 'The Stunt Driver' interview.

‘The Stunt Driver’ Helmer Michael Dowse on Working With Jay Baruchel, Building a Ramp and a Rocket Car: ‘It Wasn’t for the Faint of Heart’

Michael Dowse’s “The Stunt Driver,” starring Jay Baruchel as ’70s daredevil Ken Carter, who tried to jump a mile across the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, roars into its Toronto Intl. Film Festival world premiere offering warm-but-never-fuzzy retro visions of stunts and cross-border tension that resonate in the present moment. Dowse has premiered […]

TIFF 2026 Review: 'The Stunt Driver'

What would you do to make sure people remember you? Would you do something dangerous? Put your life on the line? Canadian daredevil Ken Carter would. We in the United States have Evel Knievel, but Carter is known as the “Mad Canadian” for a reason. Jay Baruchel gives one of the best performances of his […]