The film’s leading cast Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt honoured him with a Guinness World Record certificate at a special screening of the movie on March 13 in Los Angeles.

The record broken by Holladay was for most cannon rolls in a car. The previous record stood at seven rolls in the “James Bond” film “Casino Royale.” Holladay beat the record in eight and a half rolls.

“The cannon roll, a classic stunt dating back to the early days of cinema, involves fitting a cannon-like apparatus beneath a car that shoots toward the ground,” Universal Pictures said in a press release.

“As the vehicle reaches a designated speed, the mechanism triggers and propels the car into a series of rolls. Holladay executed the stunt behind a modified Jeep Grand Cherokee fitted with an external fibreglass body.”

David Leitch, the movie director, paid tribute to the stuntman.

While speaking about the stunt, Holladay said: “As for the cannon rolls, after two practice runs and one real take, we had one car and one shot left. And after I hit the eight-and-a-half rolls, I had a pretty good feeling that I had broken the record because it felt like the spinning was never going to stop. It was a surreal moment and I’m incredibly proud of what the team achieved.”