Abolish Bill stunt coordinator says he wasn’t scheduled the day of Uma Thurman’s accident

The stunt coordinator for Abolish Bill believes he would possess been ready to forestall Uma Thurman’s on-situation automotive smash had he been notified that the scene was as soon as taking space.

Keith Adams is the most recent birthday party to keep up a correspondence out relating to the incident that was as soon as delivered to gentle by the actress in a Saturday Contemporary York Cases story detailing Thurman’s allegations of sexual assault in opposition to Harvey Weinstein, an executive producer on Abolish Bill and longtime collaborator of Quentin Tarantino, the movie’s director.

“No stunts of any model had been scheduled for the day of Ms. Thurman’s accident,” Adams talked about in an electronic mail to THR. “The whole stunt department was as soon as put on withhold and no one from the stunt department was as soon as known as to situation. At no point was as soon as I notified or consulted about Ms. Thurman riding a automotive on camera that day.”

Thurman advised the Cases she had voiced her discomfort with getting within the abet of the wheel for the scene, later calling it “negligent to the purpose of criminality.” Tarantino, who Thurman says she doesn’t withhold responsible for the accident, has since expressed regret (as has producer Lawrence Bender), while moreover noting to Closing date that he hadn’t “thought of because it a stunt,” which would possibly maybe maybe possibly describe why the stunt coordinator wasn’t most recent. “It was as soon as unbiased riding,” he advised Closing date.

Added Adams, “Had I been eager, I would possess insisted no longer most efficient on striking a skilled driver within the abet of the wheel nonetheless moreover insuring that the automotive itself was as soon as avenue-unswerving and proper.”

“The sector because it has been described sounds worship a stunt and could possibly maybe possibly be a likely security violation,” a spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA advised THR. “In frequent, most efficient stunt mavens have to serene function stunts with steering from a stunt coordinator to verify that an most bright and proper efficiency.”

Representatives for Thurman, Tarantino, Weinstein, and SAG-AFTRA didn’t straight respond to EW’s depend on for comment.