Lord Grimlock wrote:first off if she didnt sign on to do the stunt what is she doing on the transformers set in the first place so no i dont feel sympathy and if she did sign on to be in the stunt scene she should have understood the consequences she should have understood the dangers
Have you tried reading the story of what happened? At all?
She signed on to be an extra in a scene.
She was driving her own vehicle for that scene.
While this was going on, they were filming a stunt that had NOTHING TO DO WITH HER. NOTHING. That stunt failed, miserably, and she was badly hurt, through no fault of her own. She never signed off on a stunt that had nothing to do with her. She was hurt when it was least expected and completely out of her control. She did nothing wrong, she did what was asked of her and she was gravely injured for it.
A steel cable snapped through her windshield, slashed her head like the cable was a whip, and because of this she wrecked her car a mile down the road, into the median divider.
She's paralyzed on the left side, her eye is sewn shut so her eye doesn't dry out and fall out of her head, she has barely any motor function in a great deal of her body and she's slowly starting to regain bits and pieces of her day to day as she heals.
And all for a stunt that didn't involve her. She got hurt, it's their fault, not her's, and she deserves any compensation they give her.
So, let's try this one more time:
1.) She filmed her scene as she was asked to do.
2.) They were filming a stunt for another scene at the same time, and her driving scene and the stunt were not the same scene and had nothing to do with each other.
3.) The tow cable snapped, a cable they were to check and certify as being safe, and it cut through her windshield and her skull, leaving her potentially paralyzed for the rest of her life.
4.) She signed a waiver for being an extra in the scene she was meant to be in. She did not sign a waiver for stuntwork, nor was she to be involved in said stunt.
It's their fault, not her's.
Next time you want to pick on someone in her situation, you read the WHOLE story before you start rattling off your mouth. Making uninformed, ignorant posts such as these only make us, the fandom, look bad by association with you.
Why are you being so cruel to someone who did nothing wrong and isn't even suing? It's her family suing, not her. She's debilitated and most likely it'll be permanent and the fee that the family is asking for will cover only some of her medical bills. They're not in this to make money, they're not trying to rob anyone blind.
How dare you.
*shakes head in disgust*
EDIT: Need proof? Here you go.
a metal object struck Gabriella Cedillo's personal 2006 Toyota. It went through the windshield and hit the 24-year-old driver who was not a stunt professional or member of the stunt personnel. The Toyota hit the inner median concrete barrier wall and had extensive damage to the driver's side. UPDATE: WLS-TV reports a similar tow-rig setup broke the day before.
And this little gem, coming from Paramount itself:
Paramount just weighed in with me to say that the injured extra was not involved in the stunt, that her car was not involved in the stunt, that a "freak accident caused her injury", that she and her car were more than 500 feet from the stunt
So now, you tell me...how did an extra, 500 feet away bring this upon herself? The rig failed the night before, and it failed during her scene. She was FIVE HUNDRED FEET AWAY and the force of that metal coming at her, was enough to cut her windshield and her SKULL.
They clearly say she wasn't involved in the stunt, yet she still ended up getting hurt.
Are you getting the picture now? At all?
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:13 pm
