>Producers are said to have ignored stunt coordinators’ concerns about the motorcyclist amid a desire for a race and gender match.
>In the days leading up to the Deadpool 2 motorcycle stunt that killed racer S.J. Harris on Aug. 14 in Vancouver, the crew was said to be growing increasingly agitated and nervous about the potential for something to go wrong.
>The 20th Century Fox sequel’s producers had been exerting pressure to have the 40-year-old Harris, who had raced professionally but had never worked on a film, perform that day’s stunt because, as an African-American, she was a believable stand-in for Zazie Beetz, who portrays Domino in the film. But several crewmembers warned the producers that Harris wasn’t ready, a production source tells The Hollywood Reporter.
>“She was improving, but I was watching her and, oh my God, I thought, ‘It’s just a matter of time before she crashes into a wall or runs somebody over,’” says one stunt performer who had been training Harris the day before the crash that killed her. A member of the stunt team alerted the movie’s producers to these concerns but was ignored, according to the source who trained Harris.
>From a technical perspective, the stunt was relatively straightforward. It called for a rider sitting astride a Ducati 939 Hyperstrada motorcycle to exit a building, descend a ramp over three small stairs and stop on a nearby landing. For a stunt professional, it would have been a cinch. But Harris had never even been on a film shoot before.
not watching it because domino is a nigger. avoided spiderman because of MJ
Luis Ward
>And the crash occurred on the first live take. The accident has drawn outrage and tough questions from the Hollywood stunt community. “The producers put pressure to have somebody of the same sex and ethnicity in a position she wasn’t qualified to be in,” says Conrad Palmisano, a veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director with 47 years in the entertainment industry, including credits on Sleepless in Seattle and 21 Jump Street. Palmisano says he has been in close touch with several people who were on the Deadpool 2 set that day. “The stunt coordinators caved to the pressure. All the stunt people could do was take it to their higher-ups. They’re going to follow their chain of command.”
>“If the movie’s producers had to go outside of the normal stunt community to find someone who was both qualified and resembles the actress, that speaks to a problem of lack of diversity of stunt performers,” says Darnell Hunt, the dean of Social Sciences at UCLA who helps produce the annual “Hollywood Diversity Report,” which comes out before the Oscars every year.
>According to her online bio, Harris began motorcycle riding in Brooklyn and in 2013 — after logging more than 1,500 training hours — became the first African American woman licensed to actively compete in American Motorcyclist Association races. An injury from an on-track crash while training for her first race forced Harris to wait until 2014 to begin competing in the American Sportbike Racing Association/Championship Cup Series. Since then she had been an outspoken advocate for female racing.
Diversity is our strength!
Colton Turner
Marvel movies are fucking horrible, who the fuck watches them?
Hudson Sanders
1 more dead nigger
who cares?
Austin Young
HAHAHAH Imagine dying just so this could happen.
Eli Stewart
So the next actor is gonna be white, right?
Christopher Cooper
How will women ever recover?
Ian Williams
Biologically, women are less able to perceive motion than men are. Expecting them to keep up with men in areas that involve fast motion is irresponsible
I can almost see the media using this as a way to reduce stunts in general because "they are too hard for women and blacks".
Thomas Turner
>hat speaks to a problem of lack of diversity of stunt performers,” There is the target.
Jason Brown
this. turning domino into a black ruins everything
Jace Brooks
Clearly Ryan Reynolds is a racist for making the stunt so difficult
Matthew Cook
meritocracy when? ill keep waiting i guess
Aaron Taylor
Pic related
Evan Taylor
>“If the movie’s producers had to go outside of the normal stunt community to find someone who was both qualified and resembles the actress, that speaks to a problem of lack of diversity of stunt performers,” says Darnell Hunt, the dean of Social Sciences at UCLA who helps produce the annual “Hollywood Diversity Report,” which comes out before the Oscars every year.
lmao, that's the fucking concern
Daniel Rogers
How the fuck do you screw up so badly? She hit the acceleration when she should've braked. What the fuck? She used to race motorcycles? Bull-fucking-shit.
Luis Thompson
How can we push racial diversity to the average worker of hollywood, the stunt performers, camera workers, etc.
>Ride for 1 year, likely less >decide you're good enough to hit the track >crash and have to stop racing >go on to be a stuntman riding a bike in a major movie >die on the first live take
Theres no way this isn't both hilarious and completely expected. Newbie riders will still be struggling to apex and master throttle control in turns. Everyone involved knew better but no one stopped it. Thats a wrongful death suit if there ever was one.
Dylan Bell
WTF I love affirmative action now
Noah Hill
>began motorcycle riding in Brooklyn and in 2013 >on-track crash while training for her first race >wait until 2014 to begin competing >Since then she had been an outspoken advocate for female racing
We wuz racin n sheeiiiit!! I can hear it now, how she'd brag to people at every bar that she wud demz motocaikul grill! n she dun craash! but im tough
i want cam footy, find the footy
Michael Kelly
I see what she did here. By crashing her motorcycle and dying she is closing the workplace death gap. So brave.
Nathan Foster
kek
Blake Torres
Can we jsut have like a boxing match between a women and man already so the man can spark her out can shut women up for life
Parker Brown
Relevant.
Adrian King
this, it doesn't make any sense
Justin Morales
>Ride for 1 year, likely less holy shit. That I didn't know. This shit is getting ridiculous. How will they use this to push for more forced diversity?
Nicholas Murphy
Its called whisky throttle. Because the throttle is under your right hand, if you tense up when you panic you'll pull the throttle open and accelerate. Its one of the things that new riders have to overcome when they first get on a bike.
Ian Martin
>“If the movie’s producers had to go outside of the normal stunt community to find someone who was both qualified and resembles the actress, that speaks to a problem of lack of diversity of stunt performers
So they learned nothing from this death and instead want to affirmative action more unqualified people into the same position the dead person was in?
??????? Am I reading this right?
Jose Adams
i did this the first time i tried one of those bikes out, i put myself into some shrubs at 20 km/h
We should care, because this is a perfect example of why putting race and gender above merit is a foolish idea when it comes to potentially dangerous, high-skill jobs.
Ethan Myers
It would require hiring more non-white people to jump off buildings or hold a camera. Is that out of their purview?
Chase Stewart
Fallon Fox but he really sucks.
Brandon Walker
I don't see anything wrong with this. In fact, I hope they get more negresses to try these stunts n shiet
Parker Lopez
i shall wait for a good copy on kodi, like i do 90 percent of the time :(
Jason King
You may be a leaf, but at least you're funny
Ryder Bell
Forcing unskilled people into skilled positions will only have one effect, and its not like the movie Jews are unaware of what will happen. Real stunt work is going to just get phased out. Everything will be CGI.
Yeah that'll happen if you don't know what to expect. The other big one is grabbing too much front brake.
Christian Watson
someone might wanna tell that retard its probably gonna be hard to find another black motorcycle racer lady since she was apparently the first one in history to do it
Bentley Perez
How could this have been avoided? Paint a white female stunt woman in blackface?
Parker Cooper
damn i was not sure who was the thingy cause they both look like ugly black men
Hudson Jenkins
ABS would have saved her
Carson Gutierrez
sure thing FBi
Juan Myers
>nigger death could have been prevented
How tragic.
Jose Sanchez
Looks like she broke the glass ceiling.
Landon Martin
Kek
Jackson Robinson
>more shitgi nope. hipster scum are anti cgi right now and people passionate about film will almost always prefer practical effects because unlike cgi they stand the test of time.
Elijah Anderson
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Elijah James
You're missing the point. A dead nigger is good news but this is a dead nigger we can use to make a statement.
Easton Ortiz
>“If the movie’s producers had to go outside of the normal stunt community to find someone who was both qualified and resembles the actress, that speaks to a problem of lack of diversity of stunt performers,” says Darnell Hunt, the dean of Social Sciences at UCLA who helps produce the annual “Hollywood Diversity Report,” which comes out before the Oscars every year.
Dominic Garcia
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Henry Hall
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Carter Barnes
Tay?
Gabriel Robinson
"my higher up said so" is no excuse - I'm sure they would take it back now if they could, of course, but the trainer should have stopped it. They had the final say no matter what "higher ups" may think
Jose Roberts
She stole motorcycles Ooga booga bix nood
Christopher Martin
Except the guys in charge decide everything but the boots on the ground. The Thing 2011 has full working filmed scenes with real puppets. They replaced everything with CGI which looks much much worse. Because the higher ups demanded it.
Nathaniel Anderson
I wish.
Justin Collins
More like shitlibs can make a statement that this is the fault of fucking white males discriminating against women of color in stunt community. Oh wait, they already did.
Asher Jones
>Her eye paint in inverted Lmao I shouldn't find that as hysterical as I do
Adrian Roberts
She was a fucking professional racer. This wasn't some goy who was randomly plucked from the back alley and never ridden a bike before.
>Leave building >Down a small ramp >Stop
How can you even fuck that up? You could literally freewheel it.
Jack Foster
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Gabriel Garcia
>They had the final say no matter what "higher ups" may think Is the very point of being a 'higher up' not exactly that you have the final say, however unqualified you may be to weigh in on the issue?
Jackson Collins
This When you are responsible for human lives at your job you dont listen to God himself if he comes and tells you to do something you dont like. In the end of the day you are going to be held accountable and the guy who pushed you will get a slap in the wrist tops (because you wont be able to prove shit) while you are going in for manslaughter Better to get fired than cave to some corporate idiot that only cares for timeschedules and PR
Samuel Hernandez
Why is a professor at a public University being paid to work on something called the "Hollywood diversity report." Wtf
Carson Powell
>She was a fucking professional racer. Thats extremely debatable. Going by the available evidence it seems like everyone was just giving a really shitty new rider a pass because she was a black. If the opinion of the man training her was that she was a danger to herself then she clearly wasn't professional by any objective measure.
Leo Collins
anybody know how tall the stunt woman was? you cant handle a bike like that unless you are a certain height. especially if you are trying to do stunts.
Hudson Collins
Your job as a trainer is to know when your trainee is qualified to do the job. You don't get pressured into saying someone is qualified when they aren't. That would make you shit at your job for any normal profession, and a potential cause of injury or death in a risky one.
Jason Lee
Kek'd and chek'd
Asher Cook
son of a BITCH
Kayden Perez
In other words: >Deadpool producers kill strong, proud black woman in the name of diversity.
OK, now I HAVE to see this movie.
Eli Morris
So just because you can drive a shitty old Toyota to and from work does that mean you can go in to Fast and Furious drift mode whenever the fuck you want? You're a retard just like this dead show off for instagram diversity hire nigger. I knew this was why she died the instant I saw her social media profiles. She was a show off piece of shit who was killed for virtue signaling.
Jacob Clark
WE
Aaron Gray
Just watched gaurdians of the galazy and they have turned it into a jews wet dream. they literally kill god. then the ending scene it shows you they are going after the origin story of man next. she says I think I will call him Adam in a very ominous tone. I think they are going to promote alternate views of the stories of the bible to really send kids off of the message. Its very disturbing.
Chase Cox
>a fucking professional racer >american
She probably new how to run circles really fast and turn left then Better hire her to do stunts
Colton Murphy
they already said that there is not enough diversity on the stunt community so they were forced to look somewhere else to find a black womyn, so it was the white guys fault
Grayson Clark
>a nigger died because of kike communist equality policy
LOVING. EVERY. LAUGH.
Isaiah Robinson
>When you ignore all experts and hire a black and female person instead of the best person for a racing stunt because you want to play into a progressive agenda but it's ok because she's an advocate of racing but she whisky throttles into her death and proves the reverse of her life's mission and your agenda
Dominic Rogers
Is this the first time affirmative action killed someone?
Angel Rogers
nah that was probably some case in a hospital or the police force or the fire department or any place that has heavy machinery
Jackson Campbell
pffft lmao
Julian Baker
I watched it recently, too. It was mind-rotting garbage. I wouldn't even let a kid watch it. >patricide >the dad who is calm and collected suddenly turns "evil" so the plot can progress >the mc basically rids himself of his god-like powers so he can stay together with his "friends" (of multiple species) - sounds quite socialist-y >just believe in yourself and u can do everything :^)
Jesus, I watched it about a week ago and I've already forgotten the details.
Mason Perez
This whole thing is sad. The first movie was really good. But what they did to domino is unacceptable. Mild changes are assumed, but this was bs.
Matthew Russell
Fucking hell m8. That was gold.
Ryder Bailey
Disney Marvel are unredeemable at this point. Their identity politics has ruined any vision or creativity they had. I cant wait until the bubble bursts
Caleb Kelly
not even close
Hunter Morgan
my take on it is that they are saying look how God is. see thats why cancer exists. basically calling the god in the bible an evil EGO maniac. Its blatant to anyone that is Christian.
Jayden Flores
agreed, however in this particular case, the stunt performer has to look like the actor/actress he/she replaces.
William Harris
>She was a fucking professional racer.
She raced for like a fucking year and stopped after her first actual race or some shit; She barely even qualifies as a racer.
Henry Rogers
This matter because it is a living example of what muh diversity quotas bring.
Ryan Mitchell
Actually, with CGI, editing and good costume design, said performer really doesn't.
Caleb Evans
You realize that Ego is part of a race of celestial beings, and that he's a recurring villain in the source material? Not everything is a metaphor.
Noah Lopez
I would have accepted the change if they didn't pussy out on the skin tone and made it jet black desu
Anthony Butler
>they wouldn't have even needed a black stunt driver if they had just kept the character white
Ayden Ortiz
Someone post the David Fincher - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo video.
Jason Hall
YOU THINK YOUR HOT SHIT DONCHA! they sure as fuck made it a metaphor here. Fuck off shill.
Logan Ward
thanks for the 2mb 3000x3000 sideways phonepost of text everyone appreciates your contribution
lol jk!! actually kill you are self
Juan Johnson
Wait, so the character was blackwashed for no apparent reason?
Luis Ward
Are you new here? "Professionals" in a variety of fields cave quite often in the face of (((pressure))).
