Spoiler Alert: This article contains details on the plot of “Carry-On,” now streaming on Netflix.

Tonatiuh wasn’t happy sitting on the sidelines watching a stunt person perform his fight scenes with Taron Egerton in the hit Netflix thriller “Carry-On.”

In one sequence, the two are going at each other while tumbling down a luggage conveyer belt. “They originally hired a person to do my stunts because they don’t know me. They were just following protocol,” Tonatiuh tells me over Zoom a few days before “Carry-On” premiered on Netflix. “They did one take and I saw that Taron was doing it. I had this face when the director looked at me and was like, ‘You want to do this, don’t you?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I learned the choreography for a reason. Throw me in there.’ It was a blast.”

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by T.J. Fixman,...