Entertainment | Daniel Radcliffe Daniel Radcliffe Making Film About His Harry Potter Stunt Double David Holmes was paralyzed while filming penultimate movie in series By Evann Gastaldo Posted Oct 25, 2023 3:00 AM CDT Copied Daniel Radcliffe attends Broadway's red carpet celebration of "Merrily We Roll Along," at the Hudson Theatre, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP) Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double in the Harry Potter films was tragically paralyzed from the chest down while filming the penultimate movie of the series in 2009. Now, Radcliffe is helping to tell his story in a documentary coming out in November on HBO. David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived will tell what it refers to as the "coming-of-age" story of Holmes, who was a teenage gymnast when he was chosen to double for Radcliffe in the first Potter movie, when Radcliffe was 11 years old, per the Hollywood Reporter. Over the next decade, according to a synopsis of the documentary, Radcliffe and Holmes formed an "inextricable bond." It was an accident on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 that left Holmes with a broken neck, Variety reports. He and Radcliffe remained close, launching a podcast in 2020 about stunt performers in Hollywood. Now Radcliffe is an executive producer on the documentary about Holmes, and will also be featured in interviews in the film. "As Daniel and his closest stunt colleagues rally to support David and his family in their moment of need, it is David's extraordinary spirit of resilience that becomes their greatest source of strength and inspiration," reads the description. Read These Next The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Journal pulls a controversial paper on arsenic after 15 years. The Wall Street Journal is naming more names tied to Epstein. Report an error