Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is the chief producer for a film that includes his stunt double. David Holmes was paralysed whereas practising a stunt for the penultimate Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I. Holmes working in a scene that concerned an explosion, which left him paralysed from the chest down. Holmes, who had been Radcliffe’s stunt double since 14, proper from the primary film, had fashioned a bond with the actor.
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived is described as a “coming-of-age story”, a Vulture report reads. Holmes is a skilled gymnast. Holmes and Radcliffe, in 2020, started a podcast ‘Crafty Stunts’. When Holmes met with the accident in 2009, Radcliffe hosted a charity public sale to boost cash for his medical payments. Radcliffe and fellow actor Tom Felton would go to Holmes within the hospital.
In a 2014 interview with The Mirror, Radcliffe talked concerning the bond he shared with Holmes and stated, “And I might hate for individuals to only see me and Dave and go, ‘Oh, there’s Daniel Radcliffe with an individual in a wheelchair’ as a result of I might by no means, even for a second, need them to imagine that Dave was something aside from an extremely vital individual in my life.”
The film options behind-the-scenes footage of Holmes’s stunt work and interviews with Radcliffe, different shut pals, relations and former crew. The film is directed by Dan Hartley. The film premiers on HBO and Max on November 15, at 9 p.m.
“I believe there’s a fantasy round stuntmen that they’re simply superhuman in a roundabout way. When the general public sees one thing actually painful or horrible, they suppose it was a visible impact or that there’s some intelligent, protected means of doing it. Usually that’s not the case,” Radcliffe instructed Selection concerning the podcast.
