It's stupid not to look both ways when crossing a one way, because sometimes idiots drive against the flow of traffic.
Now the pedestrian knows that. If it wasn't staged, he was way too nice.
I can think of a few times I've almost gotten creamed by a cabbie, delivery driver, or just some numbskull driving the wrong way or in the wrong lane. I had a driver cross an oncoming traffic lane to get into to a turn lane, i.e. trying to make a left turn where the oncoming traffic would be turning right onto that street. Not only that but he or she was going way too fast around a blind corner to boot. I thought that was cute.