David Blaine shows his hand in Do Not Attempt
Over the course of his lengthy profession, magician and endurance performer David Blaine has taken on all types of death-defying feats: catching a bullet in his tooth, fasting for 44 days, or holding his breath for a record-breaking 17 minutes and 4 seconds, to call a couple of. Viewers will get to see a unique facet of Blaine as he travels the world to fulfill kindred spirits from a variety of cultures in David Blaine Do Not Try, a brand new six-episode docuseries from Nationwide Geographic.
(Some spoilers under.)
The collection was shot over three calendar years (2022-2024) in 9 completely different international locations, and options Blaine interacting with, and studying from, all method of daredevils, athletes, avenue performers, and magicians. In Southeast Asia, for example, he watches practitioners of an Indonesian martial artwork known as Debus manipulate razor blades of their mouths and eat nails. (There isn’t any trick to this, simply conditioned endurance to ache, as Blaine discovers when he makes an attempt to eat nails: his throat was sore for days.) He braves putting scorpions on his physique, breaks a bottle together with his head, and units himself on hearth in Brazil whereas leaping off a excessive bridge.
