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Daniel Radcliffe meets up with Harry Potter stunt double who was paralysed on set

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Published 20:45 22 Jan 2025 GMT

Daniel Radcliffe meets up with Harry Potter stunt double who was paralysed on set

David Holmes was Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double until the final films

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: Instagram/davidholmes83

Topics: Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, TV and Film, Celebrity

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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Daniel Radcliffe recently met up with his stunt double from Harry Potter who was left paralysed on set.

In 2009, David Holmes was filming a ‘jerk-back’ sequence (designed to replicate the effects of an explosion) for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 when he was involved in a freak accident.

Serving as the stunt double for Radcliffe from the first film, he was rushed to hospital where he was told he would be paralysed from the chest down and would have only limited movement in his arms and hands.

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And to this day, the actor is ‘like family’ to Holmes.

Ahead of the release of David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived in 2023, Holmes told LADbible the pair ‘grew up together’.

“It wasn't just as his stunt double but I was his PE teacher, we've shared holidays together, and now I get to watch him grow as a man,” he said.

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“One of my greatest pleasures is having him in my life.”

And having served as the executive producer of the documentary, Radcliffe stopped by to see his friend earlier this month while back in the UK.

The pair recently reunited (Instagram/@davidholmes83)
The pair recently reunited (Instagram/@davidholmes83)

Holmes shared snaps of the pair on Instagram where he wrote: “I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful day yesterday catching up with Dan, not only was it a great day catching up with one of my best friends but it is such a joy it is to see him smashing it as a father. He certainly has his hands full chasing around a toddler.”

The author went on to add that the pair had spoke ‘all things film and TV and shared some of our favourite music discoveries’.

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Holmes added that they also had a visit from ‘another of our best friends’ in the form of Marc Mailley who took on the stunt double position for Radcliffe for the final Harry Potter films.

David Holmes and Daniel Radcliffe have been close since working on the films (Sky Documentaries)
David Holmes and Daniel Radcliffe have been close since working on the films (Sky Documentaries)

Holmes also said: “He also kindly signed a few copies of my book, which I will be signing myself (as best I can) and then auctioning off for charity in the coming years.”

In another clip, Radcliffe can be seen admiring an illustration of the pair which he describes as ‘so beautiful’.

The former stunt man is also close to other members of the Harry Potter cast, having told LADbible: “I’ve built relationships with all of the cast. Some I speak to more than the others, but I absolutely speak to all of them.”

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