Stuntwoman Died Because of Affirmative Action

[The Moth Attracted to the FlameParticipant 2982]

This is the perfect argument against affirmative action.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/deadpool-2-set-death-could-have-been-prevented-1031814

https://archive.fo/laXLb

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.

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.

[Anonymous 7]

The Moth Attracted to the Flame wrote:

“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,”

So this half-wits solution is more Affirmative Action?
The looney left indeed.

[Anonymous 54]

Theres a difference between raceing and stunts.Two different skill sets..
Learnig to do stunts on the job, at 40 years old is moronic.

[joetechParticipant]

The media said the same thing about Kara Hultgren, a Navy pilot killed during a training exercise while training at Miramar Naval Air Station. Truth is, she was an adult, a qualified pilot, and training accidents do happen. What the media failed to report at the time was that this was the sixth incident out of this command. Not until a seventh incident involving a pilot that took a plane on an unauthorized trip to Tennessee to see his girlfriend did the media investigate enough to discover that the command had some serious internal problems. That pilot that took his plane to Tennessee and crashed in a suburb short of the airfield. This stunt woman wanted to be a stunt woman and got killed doing what she wanted. I won’t buy into any affirmative action bulls~~~ on this one guys. Why is it that when a man dies at work it’s accepted as part of the risk, but when a woman dies at work affirmative action suddenly becomes an issue? Sorry, I just don’t buy it.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[Anonymous 54]

Most stunt people( who I have admired since I was a kid)
Start at an early age.
You dont start at 40 years old. Female or not.
They could see it comeing.

[Anonymous 54]

Dar Robins and Buster keeton are my Favorites.

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22559]

Jeebus, when I was 40 I would not have started to be a stuntman, and I’m a guy in decent shape. All women have to do is take one bad fall and their career is over.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Work refusal. You have the right to refuse any job that you feel is too dangerous. She should have refused. Her team shouldn’t have caved. The studio shouldn’t have pressured her to do it. Now she’s dead and there’s even less diversity than before.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[BushidoParticipant 637]

It is unfortunate this tragic accident occurred.

What may arguably be more unfortunate is just how many people voiced their concerns about the possibility of just such an event long before it occurred – and how all of them were ignored for the sake of appeasement.

How many more, feminism? How many lives will it take?

Logic guides your actions, emotion guides your morals. Only you may decide how you use them.

[Anonymous 54]

The studio was under pressure to hire a Minority.

The stunt co- ordinater and crew where growing increasingly agitated and nervous.They could see she wasnt cutting it.
Instead of calling a seasoned pro, the hired a beginer.

She was in over her head. They all new it.

They could all see it comeing.

Bikers never like seeing an other Biker get it. I take no joy in this.

I know about stunts.
I have some major league stunts under my belt.

[The Moth Attracted to the FlameParticipant 2982]

Anonymous wrote:

The studio was under pressure to hire a Minority.

The stunt co- ordinater and crew where growing increasingly agitated and nervous.They could see she wasnt cutting it.
Instead of calling a seasoned pro, the hired a beginer.

She was in over her head. They all new it.

They could all see it comeing.

Bikers never like seeing an other Biker get it. I take no joy in this.

I know about stunts.
I have some major league stunts under my belt.

Don’t forget that Domino was turned into a black woman, and that resulted in this.

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