Jan Petrina

Jan Petrina in 2023 interview with Screenrant

**Jan Petrina** is an actor and stunt coordinator who works on *The Wheel of Time* television series.

## General overview

Prior to *The Wheel of Time*, Jan Petrina had been a stunt coordinator for *Hanna* (2021), *Carnival Row* (2019), and *Brittania* (2019). Jan Petrina is also known for being a stunt double on superhero films, including doing stunts as Captain America (Chris Evans) in *Captain America: The First Avenger* (2011), as Captain America (Chris Evans) and Vision (Paul Betany) in *Avengers: Age of Ultron* (2015), and as Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) in *Guardians of the Galaxy* (2014).

Jan Petrina's involvement with *The Wheel of Time* was revealed in 2020 when his credits were added to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

## Credits

* *The Wheel of Time* TV series
	+ Season 1 - Stunt coordinator
		- Episode 101 Leavetaking - Old Man
	+ Season 2 - Stunt coordinator
	+ Season 3 - Stunt coordinator

## Quotes

> Episode 7 of #thewheeloftime dropped onto Prime yesterday…to celebrate, here is the previs of the epic opening scene, it’s always great when the original stunt team’s version inspires the director, and makes it onto the big screen… A big shout out to @majdasittova 💪
>
> Jan Petrina, Instagram, December 18, 2021

> If you’re in the studio, you can put a lot of mats under for safety. But there, in the floating river, you don’t have the option. And the river wasn’t too deep, so we did have to use wires and just put them above Maddy and throw her in. She would just touch a little bit of the water each time. And we would reset a lot, because our director loved doing a lot of takes. So we had to be ready for Isis making a hundred costumes for each time she would have to be pushed. We had to keep her dry as much as we could. She did an amazing job, and it gives the audience a little bit more when you see the actors really falling off the cliff and hitting the water.
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> Jan Petrina on working with Madeleine Madden for her cliff jump stunt in *Leavetaking*

> There's a whole choreography that goes around that because it's a robot, and if it's moving six feet in a second, anything that's in its way will be knocked out. So it takes a lot of precision from the stunt performers, and incredible stunt coordination and choreography by Jan Petrina and his team.
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> Director Ciaran Donnelly on using the bolt and Jan Petrina's stunt choreography, from The Wheel of Time - A Look Inside Episode 7, December 18, 2021

## Trivia

* After the release of episode 7 The Dark Along the Ways, Jan Petrina released a location stunt test for the Blood Snow battle.

## Gallery

### Images

Jan Petrina as the Old Man in season 1 episode 1 LeavetakingEpisode 207 behind the scenes with Jade-Eleena Dregorius, Instagram October 25, 2023

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## External links

* Jan Petrina at the Internet Movie Database
* Follow Jan Petrina (@petrinajan) on Instagram

## References

1. ↑ *WoT Series*, WoT Has a Stunt Coordinator by Lane, September 29, 2020.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jan Petrina is credited for seasons 2 and 3 on IMDb.
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXoJ5YIlNHy/
4. ↑ https://variety.com/video/wheel-of-time-costume-makeup-hair-stunts-visual-effects/