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Kiwi stuntman and actor Sala Baker has just been killed twice on Hollywood screens on the same night.
And the 31-year-old is stoked about it - because both deaths are career breakthroughs.
The first death came at the hands of starlet Jennifer Garner at the premiere showing of blockbuster The Kingdom, the other in the season opener of Prison Break while starring opposite Wentworth Miller.
Baker was at the movie premiere, and it was a good choice; the audience burst into applause, impressed by the helter-skelter fight scene.
He plays a terrorist, Garner an FBI agent investigating a bomb attack on an American compound in Saudi Arabia.
There's punching, kicking, stabbing, guns and some big throws as they smash each other up in a small room before Baker is killed - the fatal blow inflicted in a way worthy of Kingdom's R rating.
"Jennifer's a real sweetheart," Baker told the Weekend Herald in Los Angeles. "She had just had a baby, was still breastfeeding, and here she is coming into work to be thrown all over the room by some big Samoan guy from Porirua."
Garner, best known for her lead role in television series Alias, actually took part in some of the stunt scenes and had reciprocal praise for Baker in the promotional material.
"I bit him on the ear, I bit him so hard he has scabs on his ear. I feel bad about that - sorry, Sala."
The film, which also stars Jamie Foxx, opens in the US tonight.
It is eight years since Baker was selling cellphones in a shop on Wellington's Taranaki St, when, with no acting or stunt experience, he got a start on the Lord of the Rings films playing Orcs and, eventually, the evil Sauron.
He became friendly with Peter Jackson, who got him some contacts, and he sold his car - a 1975 Mercedes 280 - to chase his dream with just US$2000 in his pocket.
Not that it has been that easy. Then came a gig on Pirates of the Caribbean, and just lately he has made his way up to a stuntman who acts.
The Prison Break role gave him a number of lines. His goal now is to score a role where he is wanted for his acting alone.
He doesn't want to give too much away for New Zealand viewers of Prison Break, including how he dies, but did give one hint: Miller's character Michael Schofield is back in prison, it is in Panama, and it is run by the prisoners. The guards are outside and shoot you if you leave.
Baker says the reality of stunt work is that it's a calculated risk.
"You are doing a big fall, the wind blows the wrong way, you are in trouble. You get danger money, but danger money isn't going to buy you a new arm or an eye."
Baker grew up in Porirua, where he used to play rugby with Jerry Collins and Rodney So'oialo.
He loves the Hollywood lifestyle but sometimes it is a bit strange.
The other night, his girlfriend, an Italian hairdresser called Elizabeth, was called out in the early hours of the morning to cut Britney Spears' hair for the first time.
She took the hour-long drive over only to find Spears did not want it cut any more.
