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Career-Ending ‘Game Of Thrones’ Injury Led To $9.4M Settlement: Why Stuntwoman Thinks It Exposes Everything That’s Wrong With Her Profession

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Career-Ending ‘Game of Thrones’ Injury Led To $9.4M Settlement for Stuntwoman Casey Michaels: “I can forgive accidents and mistakes. I cannot forgive lies. Two people went to hospital, and they [G...

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Two months after suffering her injury on the final season of Game of Thrones, Casey Michaels was one of 80 performers asked to contribute £300 towards a gift for Irlam for keeping the team safe. Although they were told the collection, which potentially raised £24,000, was voluntary and would “not impact any future employment,” Michaels believes the opposite is true. “Everybody knew there would be repercussions for not paying,” she says.
This Rowley Irlam comes across like a corrupt, arrogant arsehole.
- This sounds like mafia-esque blackmail.
  300$ to keep the team safe.
9.4m, including legal fees. Hope there was a good chunk left after that. Utter gross negligence, horrible the coordinator thinks he did nothing wrong and there isn't more recourse, no license to remove no firing.
Michaels and a group of other performers were asked to drop approximately 12 feet into a landing rig of cardboard boxes and crash mats
they were not allowed to spot their landings because they were zombies.
changes were made to the landing rig between takes ... thick crash mats were swapped for thinner alternatives, while two other performers recalled that the landing rig felt less secure on the second take.
As she walked off the ledge for the second take, Michaels claims that she fell blind into a landing rig that had been changed without warning. Michaels was the last performer to step off the ledge. Twenty-six others fell before her, meaning the adapted rig had been impacted repeatedly before she dropped.
“I hit the floor and heard my bones breaking underneath me,”
This is terrifying, that your life could be destroyed by a colleagues indefensible negligence.
- To be fair that is true for many jobs. Anytime you are working around heavy machinery for example.
  What gets me is that their whole profession is about getting a known dangerous task and figuring out if/how the scene can be performed in a safe manner. With time in advance to prepare, and mitigate risks.
  And yet they still cut corners.
  
  That's true. And they weren't exactly short of money!
Very informative article 👍
Career-ending injury
I thought they were talking about what Benioff and Weiss did with that ending! Rimshot
Edit: The description of Casey's injury made me wince; I'm glad she got paid.
Imagine how much money that could have been saved had all the member of the final season's production team acted like they gave a damn.
I would voluntarily become a paraplegic for 10mil
- You have to realize that's not what happened here, right? This was not voluntary, and career ending. That 9.6 mill won't go as far as you think with lawyers fees, and then the medical bills and likely extensive rehab.

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