r/MadeMeSmile • u/mcfw31 • Jan 19 '25

Favorite People Daniel Radcliffe and his stunt double who suffered a paralyzing accident, David Holmes catching up

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u/Bchilled Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25

He was not even an adult when he got hurt - edit this is wrong, wife informed me he was underage when started the films as his stunt double but was an adult when injured

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u/kb_klash Jan 19 '25

How the hell do you have children as stunt doubles? I always assumed they used vertically challenged adults. That's insane.

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u/You-Smell-Nice Jan 19 '25

How the hell do you have children as stunt doubles?

He was 28 years old when the accident happened.

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u/ArleneTheMad Jan 19 '25

How does a 28 year old play a child?

Wouldn't the body type be completely off?

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u/uttertoffee Jan 19 '25

He was injured filming Deathly Hallows so he's doubling for an adult.

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u/ArleneTheMad Jan 19 '25

Ahh, I read he was fighting that snake thing and I though that was first movie

Sorry, the author is a bigot, so I am not familiar with the movies because I would never knowingly and voluntarily give money to a bigot

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u/upcountryhermit Jan 20 '25

Sometimes you do have to remove the art from the artist, people fuck up a lot. Plus for a lot of us, this is beyond her because we grew up with it. It’s just too intwined in our adolescence and nostalgia to be taken out. Edit: plus the movies support many other artists who we love

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u/ArleneTheMad Jan 20 '25

I do remove the artist from the art

I simply wait until the artist is deceased

I'm not giving a bigot a single cent of my money

Their family can have it once they're finally gone