Tragic true story of ‘The Other Harry Potter’ whose life forever changed after a catastrophic injury on the set

A stunt doubles for Harry Potter Actor Daniel Radcliffe is open about the horrific injury that he sustained on the set 16 years ago, so that he left paralyzed from the neck down.

At the age of 25, David Holmes worked on film sets after he became a trained gymnast; Years of bullying from childhood overcome to live his dream.

He was at the height of his career and worked on one of the largest film franchises in the world when his life changed to an instant after a set of accident.

David, now 44, from Romford, rehearsed a fight scene for the Deathly Hallows: part 1 film in 2009 when he fell and dropped to the ground, heard the sound of his own neck breaking while he reached the ground.

Doctors ran around him, but the damage was already caused, with David paralyzed paralyzed from the bar through the bar some limited movements in his arms and hands.

Now he has detailed his dismay about the horrible injury that has destroyed his career and “the gift that keeps taking”.

Despite the catastrophic consequences of his injuries, he is once the optimist and he said that he believes that his alive is a “gift.”

Appear as guests Mamamia’s no filter podcastHe opened his gratitude for the Harry Potter franchise and how the injury it left him changed his view of life.

David was cast for the first time when the ‘Second Harry’ when he was only 17 years old, his little frame made him the ideal stuntman for 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe.

During his almost decades of term of office who worked on the iconic film set, he was more than just a second Harry.

‘I am the Hermione when the troll hits the doors of the bathrooms. I am the Ron on the back of the horses with which he is hit on the breastpiece. I am the malfidus in the Quidditch competition, flying away from his broom, “he remembered.

But his fearless line would end up soon. During a routine stunt that the Deathly Hallows filmed: part 1, the thread attached him to a harness and pool system, suddenly, causing David to fall to the ground. He was immediately paralyzed.

He was initially brought to A&E in the Watford General Hospital, but was transferred to a specialized spinal cord glacier when the size of his injuries became clear.

He spent a few months in the hospital and has since undergone years of treatment and operations.

“My spinal cord separated on the C 67 vertebrae just at the bottom of you at the bottom of your neck before you start Thorax,” he said.

He remembered how the accident made him ‘vulnerable’ and ‘needy’ 16 years ago after he was ‘brought back’ of how he was like a toddler.

“People had to feed me, people had to dress me, wash it, you call it and then debilitating rehabilitation,” he remembered in meticulous details.

Several cast members stayed by his side, visited David in the hospital and showed their support.

“They were young to see me, with threads in me and things that hung out of my nose,” he said in the podcast.

“For me that I have been brave for them all those years on the camera … they have the chance to turn that around and be brave for me.”

The band of David and Daniel is one that is still going on today, in which the two have collaborated on filming a documentary about the former stuntmaster entitled The Boy Who Lived.

In 2020 the couple also recorded a podcast series, cunning stunts, about stunt double acting.

Daniel took a busy film schedule for a while to visit his stuntdouble in the hospital, a gesture that David has never forgotten, in which he “describes a big person that his life will sacrifice to ensure that other people stay employed.”

Now that 16 years on Snap who changed the process of his life forever, David can view his injury with optimism.

“What is worse than breaking your neck is the pain in the eyes of your loved one,” he said.

‘Life is difficult, broken neck or not. I learned that lesson at the age of 25 and it made me make peace with the fact that it teaches you gratitude. I’m here today, now. Where will I be in my body in 10 years? I can’t tell you … It forces me to be here now to take the day. ‘

Being paralyzed from the waist comes with his complications, from which David does not shun – and he is always able to see the funny side.

“I can’t have control over my intestinal routine,” he said. “So that means that I have more hands on my A ** than the cast of the Muppets.”

‘I have myself everywhere – at the top of mountains, film premières, you name it … it never gets easier. But if you can find the joy and humor afterwards, it becomes a bit more digestible. So I always laugh about myself. ‘

Elsewhere in the interview he discussed his relationship with his partner Rosie, a C-4 Quadriapegic he met while renting her property in Spain.

“We don’t connect to our injuries,” he said. “We make contact with our love for each other and our shared experience to be loved by great families and friends and devoted care teams.”

‘Our shared life experience When we go on holiday together, this means more because we have to work harder for it. And every orgasm that we both give each other, it means more because we have an orgasm under our level of injury, something that most people say that is unreachable. ‘

He said that he was ‘grateful’ for the life that the two can share, and added that they enjoyed the best sex of their lives together.

David also has an enormous gratitude for having shared in the Harry Potter experience, where he praises the franchise about how it helped others through difficult times.

“There are currently children in conflict zones, petrified … Their parents have put Harry Potter on a phone for them, and it helps them to escape their reality,” he said.

‘There are currently people who struggle with mental health problems that are always the same as those films to help them by getting a difficult time. I am very, very grateful that I was able to contribute to that fact for tons and tons of people. ‘

“I can share my perspective, and hopefully someone goes,” that helped me today, “he said.

“We get one chance in life. It is best to share, to share the experience of a stupid monkey on a rock, turning the room with a load of other stupid monkeys on a rock. ‘

‘There will be a generation of people behind me who has a spinal cord injury that will be like the lost little boy I was in the hospital with the feeling that hope is gone. And maybe, very maybe, they can find my journey and my story, and it can give them hope. ‘