Mythbuster Grant Imahara overleden

RDJ134 14 juli 2020 om 14:50 uur

Mythbusters is pure nerd cultuur voor en door nerds en geeks, wat het programma juist zo cool maakte. Naast Adam Savage en Jamie Hyneman was er het 'b-team' bestaande uit de prachtige Kari Byron, de grappige Tory Belleci en Grant Imahara die met de meest toffe ontwerpen aan kwam. Deze laatst genoemde is nu overleden op 49 jarige leeftijd aan de gevolgen van een hersenaneurysma. Grant werkte naast Mythbusters ook een tijd voor Lucasfilm THX en Industrial Light and Magic, en zijn werk was onder anderen te zien in de moderne Star Wars films en The Matrix.

Ik ben niet snel shocked, maar dit. Damned :(


Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49.

Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family," a representative for Discovery said in a statement on Monday.

An electrical engineer and roboticist by training, he joined Discovery's MythBusters in its third season, replacing Scottie Chapman and was with the show until 2014 when he left with co-hosts Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. The trio would reunite in 2016 for Netflix's White Rabbit Project which lasted for one season. On MythBusters, Imahara used his technical expertise to design and build robots for the show and also operated the computers and electronics needed to test myths.

While part of the Mythbusters team, he sky-dived and drove stunt cars, on film sets he came into contact with some of the most iconic characters in screen history, installing lights onto Star Wars' R2-D2, creating the robot Geoff Peterson for The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and working on the Energizer Bunny.



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