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“She is a professional motorcycle rider in the racing world, but because it was her first stunt job, perhaps it could’ve been because she was a bit nervous.” “She was kind of brought in as a last-minute backup,” said Wong of Harris. Production was halted immediately after the crash.Įmerson Wong, another stuntman on the Deadpool 2 set, told ET Canada that Harris was a last-minute replacement for another stuntwoman who was not available for the stunt on the day required due to a scheduling conflict. She was reportedly treated by ambulance personnel but police said she died at the scene. Harris narrowly missed hitting two pedestrians when she lost control of the bike. “She came out, went down the two flights of stairs, and it looked like she kind of hit the throttle because she picked up speed,” Nathan Kramchynski told Metro News. Before the accident, which occurred on a Monday morning, eyewitnesses said Harris had completed several rehearsals of the stunt, which involved driving a motorcycle down two ramps across several stairs. Sources said her preferred racing bike was a Kawasaki Ninja 300 but she was riding a Ducati 939 Hyperstrada at the time of the crash.
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Before her sad demise in August 2017, she competed at a Championship Cup Series race in New Jersey where she finished 11th.Īt the time she joined the Deadpool 2 crew, she was not a trained stuntwoman but she was a trained professional rider and that could have contributed to her getting the role apart from diversity reasons.
According to her profile, she began racing in earnest in 2016, competing in 14 races. Ultimately, she made it to the pro-am level, where she would compete for the rest of her life.
Harris nevertheless worked hard to get to the next level and by 2015, she had a lot of sponsors to support her in the sport. I had no one to talk to and I didn’t know what I needed.” “I was alone for most of the day, scared and in tears. The race was at the time white and male-dominated. “I am everything people never saw in the sport,” Harris, who was licensed to compete in both Championship Cup Series and American Sportbike Racing Association events, told Black Girls Ride magazine in 2015 while recounting her first amateur race in 2014. An advocate for women of color in the road racing game, she was known for her bravery in the sport, thanks to the speeds at which she operated her machine and the barriers she broke to get to a higher level. history to actively compete in sanctioned motorcycle road racing events”.
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Before joining the crew of the action movie Deadpool 2, the 40-year-old Brooklyn, New York native had billed herself as “the first licensed African American woman in U.S. Her death did not only shock Hollywood but the sports world as well. Since then, there have been talks as to whether or not her death could have been prevented. Harris was not wearing a helmet at the time because Domino, the character for whom Harris was performing the stunt, was not wearing one in the scene. Harris, who was performing her first movie stunt, was killed when she was ejected from the motorcycle and crashed through the plate-glass window of a nearby building, Deadline reported. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and loves ones in this difficult time,” Deadpool 2 director David Leitch said in a statement. “No words can express how I and the rest of the Deadpool 2 crew feel about this tragedy. Those were the words of Deadpool 2 film’s star, Ryan Reynolds, after stuntwoman Joi Harris was killed in a motorcycle crash on the film’s Vancouver set in August 2017.
My heart pours out to them - along with each and every person she touched in this world.” We’re heartbroken, shocked and devastated… but recognize nothing can come close to the grief and inexplicable pain her family and loved ones must feel in this moment. “Today, we tragically lost a member of our crew while filming Deadpool.
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