Victor Paguia on Nine Seasons of “FBI,” Wirework Roots and a First Emmy Nomination

• Victor Paguia has coordinated eight seasons of “FBI” and has his first Emmy nomination.
• He built his performing work on wirework, starting with a window fall on “I Am Legend.”
• On a network show he often learns the stunt only nine days before shooting it.

Posted: August 24, 2026

Victor Paguia has more than 100 credits and has coordinated eight seasons of CBS’s FBI with a ninth coming, and this career interview is timed to his first Emmy nomination, for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Drama Programming. He came up as a performer — his first real stunt was playing a Darkseeker on I Am Legend (2007), riding Will Smith’s double out a second-story window in a mid-air flip — and built his performing specialty on wirework off an acrobatics, gymnastics and diving background. Fire burns, ramp car work and fight choreography came later; he says fight choreography is now “at the front of my brain” on FBI.

The Zombieland stories are the ones that show the range of gags a performer of that era was expected to absorb. He rode a Hummer into a lake hanging off the vehicle as it was ghost-ridden off a ramp into water. On a separate car-crash gag he attacked Jesse Eisenberg from the back seat, went through the windshield and then through a flower shop window, stood up and kept attacking through the hole he’d just made.

Where the interview earns its keep for working coordinators is the network-procedural workflow. On a broadcast show Paguia often doesn’t know what the stunt is until nine days out. He gets a director’s brief — smash a man through an armoire, into a foyer, into a dining room and over a table — then has to choose the furniture, wait on actors being cast a couple of days out, and only then cast the stunt doubles to match. It is a compressed, reactive version of the prep most feature coordinators take for granted, repeated every episode.

Source: JoySauce — Victor Paguia and the crazy life of a Hollywood stunt coordinator

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