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STUNT DEATH: DEADPOOL 2 Stunt Motorcycle Rider Joi “SJ” Harris Dies Performing Stunt in Downtown Vancouver

Joi Harris’s facebook.

Update: It was Joi “SJ” Harris who died this morning. She was the first  African-Amercan female professional road racer and a first-time stunt performer, Deadline: Hollywood reports.

Correction: Joi Harris was imported specially from the U.S. to perform today’s Domino-riding-her-Ducati stunt.  Vancouver’s Natasha Denis is the Domino stunt double we’ve seen on set not Harris. I have removed photos of Natasha Denis dressed as Domino.

It’s a sad day for the BC Film industry. You like to think it won’t happen here but it has. A female stunt motorcycle rider on Deadpool 2 died this morning from injuries sustained in a stunt gone wrong in downtown Vancouver. She crashed into glass windows at the Shaw Tower opposite Jack Poole Plaza at around 8:20 a.m.

Words from Ryan Reynolds.

From Zazie Beetz who plays Domino.

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Global BC was on the scene and saw her doing the stunt, successfully completing it several times. But on the last try she lost control and crashed.

Sources told Deadline: Hollywood that she was an experienced road racer who had two full days of rehearsals on the weekend and at least five rehearsals before filming. But she didn’t wear a helmut, presumably because the character Domino doesn’t.

Domino’s Ducati

 

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