David Holmes was paralyzed on the set of Harry Potter

During the shooting of the seventh movie in 2010 Harry Potter movie, Deathly Hallows Part OneDaniel Radcliffe’s stunt double, David Holmes, suddenly fell from a great height. He writes in his memoirs that he “collided with a crash mat at incredible speed, causing me to fracture the C6 and C7 vertebrae.” He suddenly became paralyzed, paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair. He was 28 years old.

Worse still – if such a thing is conceivable – it later turned out that the condition was likely to be degenerative.

“The strength of my working limbs will weaken over time, and in addition to losing the ability to use my arms, there’s a good chance I’ll need mechanical assistance to perform the functions of reading, speaking, and eating. So,” he writes emphatically, “fuck my life, right?”

Not really, no. It’s a fact memories so that no matter how far away the sparkle is, there is truly hope. The Boy Who Lived, While deeply saddening in nature, it also reveals the indefatigable spirit of the human spirit. Especially, his.

David Holmes was a young man who wanted to shine brightly, but his appetite for destruction was always evident. “To the outside world,” he writes, “the average stuntman probably looks like a reckless lunatic with little regard for their personal safety.” But what he wants to make clear here is that the world of film stunts is extremely regulated and, to all intents and purposes, “safe.” So when are things To do If it goes wrong, it would be devastating for everyone involved.

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The Boy Who Lived it essentially expands on the 2023 Sky documentary of the same name and serves to fill in the gaps for anyone wanting more in-depth detail. We learn that he was born. essexand had a hard time at school. She was small for her age and the victim of bullying before becoming a gymnast and then a stuntwoman.

It was on movie sets where he felt like he truly belonged. He was living his dream (“I’m probably the first person on Earth to play Quidditch,” he notes) when he landed recurring gigs on the Harry Potter series, occasionally earning up to £11,000 a day.

The accident made this dream pay its price. Ample compensation allowed him to build a specially adapted house “worthy of Grand Designs” as well as And continue to be fond of almost something rock’n’roll lifestyle. Unable to process his accident well, he tried to keep depression at bay by absorbing “as much of the mind-altering substances this side of heroin and crack cocaine as possible” and was “determined to keep the buzz going.”

Whenever their close friend Daniel Radcliffe came to visit, they would enjoy a “cheeky smoke”. Elsewhere, he went to Ibiza on a boys’ holiday and discovered he was the ideal drug mule because “who would look for someone in a wheelchair?”

Splashed out on a holiday sushi he was served next to a naked woman, and in another he paid £2,500 for a Russian prostitute whom he could only hug. Clearly aware that such uneducational reminiscences are piling up here, ghostwriter Matt Allen explicitly directs him to keep the reader on the sidelines. “I could have done better,” said Holmes suddenly. “I work hard to make sure I do that these days.” In fact, much of the book is about the belated evaluation of a man who has never really evaluated.

“When I remember these stories now, I see myself as I was then: a scared little boy.” he writes. “I was afraid of being alone and was trying to hold on to every aspect of my masculinity. Since then I have learned a lesson: Responsibility is what makes you a man above all else.”

Today, at 42, Holmes still has a strong lust for life, regardless of her circumstances. He has a podcast, Crafty Showsand does not remain shy and almost never retires. The truth is that he to have What made her story so inspiring was finding hope.

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, £22