By Tine Roycroft

We all complain about our nine to fives.  There is never enough toner in the printer at work and the office manager is never to be found.  The chick in the cube in front of yours won’t stop yapping on the phone with her girlfriends.  Your lovely co-workers keep stealing the chicken salad you bring for lunch despite the fact that you claim it as your own with a Sharpie.

Then there’s Hollywood stuntman Anthony Molinari, 35 ~ a dark-haired and delicious-looking former Worcester boy.  His version of a bad day lacks a little bit of the cube farm soap opera but brings workplace drama to a whole new level.

“There was this one time when I was dangling abut 65 feet up in the air from a wire,” Molinari remembered.  “They needed to bring me down quick, but there was a hiccup in the wiring system and I ended up dropping the last 20 feet and hitting the deck pretty hard.”

Can anyone say, “Office first-aid kit?”

Molinari, a humble and earthy guy who was spending the Fourth of July holiday weekend with his family when we reached him, downplays his attractive looks and incredible physical prowess.  But for crying out loud, the boy stunt doubles for George Clooney, so you know ‘s got game.

The stuntman/stunt coordinator always knew his true calling.  But Molinari didn’t take the direct path to fulfill his dreams.  In fact, it was the wisdom of someone much younger that encouraged Molinari to get his stunt act in gear.

After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went into teaching.  Molinari encouraged his students, as part of a class project, to write down what they wanted to be when they grew up.  One student, named Kenny, wasn’t happy with the assignment.  He needled Molinari to find out what the teacher had wanted to be when he was young.

“I wanted to be a stuntman,” Molinari answered honestly.  Kenny asked why he hadn’t followed that dream and went as far as getting his teacher information on a stunt school in Washington state.  In a matter of months. Molinari was heading to Seattle to learn about hand-to-hand combat and fire stunts.  Then it was off to Hollywood.

Today, you can see Molinari perform in huge movies including “Angels and Demons,” “Leatherheads,” and “True Blood.”  As he has moved up in the ranks, he has gone from being a stuntman to a stunt coordinator ~  the person who strategizes the stunts and directs the other stuntmen as to how to execute them.  Molinari is really enjoying that field of work, but would love to go deeper into the film industry.

“I’d love to get into more acting, even try producing,” ruminated Molinari.  “It’s time to start making movies.”