Gail Meyer (The Fall Guy)

Gail Meyer (Hannah Waddingham) is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Tom Ryder) of Universal Pictures's action-comedy film The Fall Guy.
She is the producer of most Tom Ryder films and the mastermind behind the plan to frame Colt Seavers for the murder of fellow stunt man Henry.
== Appearance ==
With brown hair styled in loose waves, and she appears in professional attire, typically wearing tailored suits and stylish blouses, giving her a polished and authoritative look fitting her character's role in the movie industry. She is always losing glasses and drinking a diet soda.
== Personality ==
On the outside Gail may look like a supportive, optimist and caring person but she truly is lying, manipulative and cunning person who would do anything keep face as a famous movie studio producer.
She will lie about anything and make sure that everything goes her way, she will even use excuses to make someone change their mind like the topic of "toxic masculinity".
== Biography ==
=== Past ===
Gail loves to cater to Toms needs, like that time he wanted to do an entire reshoot of a scene that caused Colt's back injury and forcing him to retire from stunts all together just because his face could be seen in the shot. One day she gets a call by Tom crying for help in a tub after he accidentally killed his new stunt man Henry in a party. She calms him down and devices a plan to frame someone else for the murder and orders him to hide.
=== The Fall Guy ===
Gail contacted Colt and tricked him into believing that Jody asked for his help in her upcoming movie "Metalstorm". She makes Colt scan his face for the production, after a few scenes are shot she tells him that Tom has been missing for several days and that the studio is threating to shut off the production if he doesn't return. 
As Colt leaves she orders Ryder drug dealer to roofie Colt and transport him to the hotel room where Henry's body is located however she didn't count with Colt fighting back. They meet at a hotel and she distracts Jody as Colt tries to find Tom, he calls her in a panic about the body but she feigns ignorance. A few more days pass as Gail gives Colt a plane ticket back home saying it was a mistake and that the movie will be fine, Colt unconvinced decides to search for Ryder's personal assistant where she tells him about the drug induced fight Henry and Tom had. 
After a brief chase and an ambush at Ryder's mansion it is not only revealed that Tom is alive and well but that he is cahoots with Gail in order to save his reputation. 
Ryder reveals Gail's plan to use deepfake in order to incriminate Colt by putting his face in the murder video that was on Ryder's phone and use the hotel security footage to ensure Colt was the main suspect. But since the phone was destroyed in the ambush he orders to kill him by setting him on fire. Meanwhile Gail tries to convince Jody that he is guilty and she needs to continue with the movie. 
However Colt survives the attack and with Jody they managed to come up with a plan to make Ryder confess to everything. Jody convinces Ryder to get on a car for a scene before Colt hijacks the car and drives off. With a handcuffed and while wired with a microphone, Colt starts to make insane stunts and drives like crazy in order to make him confess his and Gail's involvement with Henry's death while the rest of the crew, hold off his goons. 
Unfortunately Gail manages to get the recording at gunpoint and calls for a helicopter so they could be extracted. Jody helps Colt leap onto the helicopter in mid-air and Colt fights and retrieves the recording, he falls onto a crash mat prepared by his friend Dan. The helicopter crashes as Ryder and Gail leave the wreckage only to be swarmed by police, Gail tries to bribe the officers until Ryder recognizes them as part of the prop team causing him to run into a detonation area when he takes out his phone in an attempt to call his lawyer only for the phone to trigger the planted explosives due to them being radio sensitive resulting in his death. Gail is arrested 
== Powers and Abilities ==
* Manipulation: Gail knows how to lie to others, she uses their feelings and passive aggressive comments in order to get someone to do what she wants. Like when he recruited Colt by saying Jodie wanted to see him or convinced Jodie that Colt had left back to the states.
* High Intelligence: She is capable of arranging highly complicated plans in order to get what she wants. 
* Gunmanship: She owns a revolver but isn't that skilled with it, missing several times and forgetting it only has 6 bullets.
* Connections in the movie industry: As a famous movie producer sha has connections within the Hollywood circle that allows her to hire the best in the business, this helps with her plan to frame Colt.
== Quotes ==
== Trivia ==
* She has a resemblance to Tropic Thunder's villain Les Grossman.
* In almost all scenes she has she is drinking a diet coke.
* She uses a weird analogy about bacon wraps.
*Hannah Waddingham, also plays as the Wicked Witch of the West in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz and Mother Witch in Hocus Pocus 2, also Septa Unella in Game of Thrones.
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