Produced By - Insight #3 - Raid Matwi: Keep Pushing Despite The Obstacles In Your Way

Episode Date: May 11, 2023

Raid Matwi is a London based aspiring actor and a stuntman. Currently, he’s completing required disciplines to apply for a globally recognised certificate to join professional stuntmen. Having completed five out of six he’s going to apply soon to join the British register and become one of them. With his proficiency in different sports and activities, including karate, diving, racing and more, he’s already got experience working as a stuntman, extra and even minor acting roles. We discuss a deeper introduction to stunt work, the conditions to join the stunt association and his acting experience. Coming from Hungary, Raid shares his inspirational journey of moving to London with no prior sense of a direction until he got an idea that changed his life. Now, balancing his biggest passion, regular job, being a father and more, he continues to pursue his dream with a positive mindset. Listen to this episode to get a deep dive into stunt work, to find out what exciting projects Raid worked on and what famous people he met on set.  Connect with Raid: ⁠https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8833225/⁠ ⁠https://www.spotlight.com/2010-5610-6333⁠    ⁠https://www.instagram.com/raidmatwi/?hl=en⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/raid-matwi-ab55a3225/?originalSubdomain=uk⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@raidmatwi9605/videos⁠ Episode quotes: “You’re going to be part of something big, something elite and they're not going to give it easy to you.” “Life is tough but that's what life is about.” “You always have to push no matter what. I have kids now and haven't got much time. But I still get the training in. It's time management.”  “I went for it and since then it has totally changed my life. I'm still not there. I still have not finished my training. But I’m close now.” “You just have to keep pushing. Otherwise, if you quit you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life.” Connect with the podcaster: ⁠⁠https://tomasloucky.com/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠ Follow the podcast: 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/ 🔗 Links: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠⁠   💬 Contact: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/contact 📷 Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/produced_by_podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠  🎥 YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5LHnM6YCaeVzIr0WatOsw⁠⁠⁠⁠  ✉️ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/produced-by/id1684669642⁠⁠ 🎙️ About Produced By Podcast: Produced By brings you exciting stories of brave people who set out to build careers in competitive fields despite often challenging circumstances. Whether you are interested in creative industries, personal development or want to have some fun, enter the spotlight along with our guests and get inspired. Listen to people coming from all parts of the world, diverse fields of expertise and different levels of careers. So join us to follow their journeys, learn from life experience and embark on a great adventure. 🤩 If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please, leave a review on your podcast app, subscribe or share it with your friends. You can also send us a message and share any feedback, advice and tips for guests. 📭 Subscribe at https://produced-by-podcast.com/subscribe so that you don't miss out! #producedbypodcast #producedby #enterthespotlight  Enjoy! Connect with Tomas:X: https://x.com/TomasLoucky⁠⁠⁠Stan: https://stan.store/TommenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠Unproduced:Newsletter: https://unproduced.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unproducednotesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Ddo8ibDlLYoaP7FFLIWMore:Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://producednewsletter.substack.com/⁠The Podcast Club: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25420030/Tools & gear that support the show:Metricool: https://f.mtr.cool/HRJBZKRiverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/vDnDodFavikon: https://www.favikon.com?fpr=tommenRa Optics: https://ra-optics.myshopify.com/discount/TOMMEN?rfsn=8803777.591d19JamX: https://jamx.ai/podcasters-offer?ref_id=e02d48af-ef66-4e76-b804-c2e8d282a8bfSome links are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you find them useful, using these links helps keep the podcast running. Thank you!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Did you actually move to the UK to pursue this career or you moved here and then somehow decided? Not at all. So I was 20 years old, 21. And we said like, you know after what happened in 2008, there was a big like crisis and stuff. And they said like we have to get out of this country. Hungary. Yeah. And basically with friends and with my partner we packed up in a little 1.3 Suzuki left hand drive. We panked up everything. I just drove here. to England from there.

We didn't even have a set now. My father was a truck driver in time, so he gave me the cities we have to go through. I've rolled down, you know, go through Austria, Germany, France, and the biggest cities. I was looking at people who were just driving. We arrived.

So my partner was a qualified nurse, but she couldn't start work because when you arrived to the UK you have to apply for your PIN number in order to work in the NHS. So she went to cleaning hotels and I was throwing newspapers, leaflex,

and then I had a job I was cleaning the streets. At nature, we had nothing. I remember, like, Saturday morning, 6 o'clock, I cleaning the streets around Fisbury Park and these guys coming from a party and they just threw their calves, you know, and I had to pick them out, like this kind of stuff, you know.

So we had literally nothing. So for us, for me at the beginning, just to have a, like a meal in a kebab shop or have a cook, it was a big thing, you know what I mean? I was like, wow. Then I started to find out of Georgia, I worked as a gardener. Then I was a delivery driver.

my story progressing. And around 2016, I was like, I really want to do something with my life. I want to do, it's a lot more into me, I think, that just doing this boring job. I need to do something. And I started looking around. I had no idea.

I just wanted to do something. And I see that in other world, they were looking for extras, film extras, who could be boss as an Albanian bare-meccal fighters. I was like, fuck yeah.

I applied for it and I got the joke I was like the first day of my life and sat they took me to Warner Brothers Studios I had to sit

next to Matt Damon what we called Jason Bourne the whole scene was I had to sit in the back of a truck and just sit next to him that's it

and the truck was moving basically they were making the reshoot of his face and the reaction and see traveling and he just needed some shadows next to him

I think that's all it was when I was there I thought like wow you know I made it to Hollywood now like yeah

then I met with the stunt team there when you said when you got kind of nothing to do you sit around your trailer or like in a dining room and I set these guys like what are you doing here? They said there stuff guys and that was the one you need to do to become a stuntman and they explained to me everything. They were really nice and then I said okay this is what I'm going to do

no matter how long does it takes I'm going to do this that was like 2016 and here I am now well but it sounds like a great story yeah it just kind of happened accidentally but yeah i really got this happened what was that moment that switch that you need to do something with your life how did that happen or why i think one of i think one of the trigger was one of my friends he came here after like a year after us he came here and he he was a welder back in hudgery and he had this idea that he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna bedding underwater, like in a sea, like a commercial driving, diving, you know. He started doing, he found a school, he put some money together, and he went for it.

He started doing the course. And I was like, bad, he's doing it. He's moving up, and I'm just a daily driver, gardener. I drink and I fight weekends, and that's all I do. I need to do. So that was a trigger point. I need to do something. And I was just searching and searching, trying to find something really, really hard.

Yeah, that sounds inspirational. Inspiration definitely. I'd have meant for inspirational, yeah. I always knew I got more hit myself than than just do like

a regular boring job and then go home, drink a beer and watch football like always knew I can do much better and much better things than that.

And then this sign came up I've seen this ad word I went for it and since that has commonly changed my life I'm still not there I'm still not finished my training but you know

I'm really close now and I'm really close now and that yeah like you are on a great path Yeah, definitely. And it sounds like you had also great first experience because I would imagine it would be, you know,

some kind of bush in the background, but you're actually sitting next to Matt Damon, which sounds like a great motivation for the beginning. Yeah, definitely. That was the first. Also, it's like, when that's happened, I didn't see the reality of it. I was just there as an extra thought.

Like, oh, yeah, you know, I really made it. It was nothing about me. I was just there as a shadow. But he was really dispirious. I'm there. It would be inusional. You think you are there. they treat you really well.

You know, you need to cut back a bit to your ego, you know. Yeah. And during this journey, did you have moments of doubt? Yeah, many times. I had an accident. I was doing rock climbing. I just fall and I smashed my ankle. So my ankle went the other way around.

I had two surgeries on it. The doctor says, you might never be going to walk the same way as again as before. I'm all fine. It's all good. I recovered. Then financial issues. Because obviously, if you do these trainings, I'm working things. you can't have a full-time job.

That's happened, that that is always, always something happened. Then in 2018, this association, they said, we're going to change the whole thing. So we're going to shut down. There's no more intakes. And we're going to change the requirements. So I was waiting a year and a half for them to give out the new requirements. With that time, I didn't know what I was doing, what our training is going to be relevant or not. Then I had COVID, that no expect.

But always what happened. And I was just, just keep going, man. If he'd be the half leg, just keep going moving forward. If he's a half a step or half a step, don't worry, just go more. If you fall, you just toss off and just go again. Because that's what life about, man. You just have to keep pushing. Otherwise, if you quit, you're going to regret it for the rest of your life.

Yeah, I can only agree. When they changed those rules, did they make it harder? Yes, make it harder, yeah. Yeah, they had some bit of addition. And since that, he's keep changing, things changing around. what I'm going to do I'm going to finish off my last skill and whatever changes on

I'm just, I'm going to stop me and we'll see what they say what I need to do, what I don't need to do nothing going to stop me now. I don't care. Whatever they change, I'm still going to go for it and I'm going to finish it off

no matter how it says, I don't care. Do you have an estimate when you might finish horse riding? I hopefully like end of the summer or the autumn time, something like that. So it's going to be soon.

Yeah, it could be very soon. Yeah, yeah. for the year.