After suffering a serious head injury during a stunt at a ‘Transformers 3” shoot in East Chicago, Indiana, the mother and brother of injured extra Gabriela Cedillo told WBBM Chicago that the 24-year-old was in stable condition following emergency brain surgery this morning.
As reported by WBBM, Cedillo is a lifelong movie fan and resident of Chicago’s West Side who signed up to be an extra in director Michael Bay's big-budget action movie filming throughout Chicago. Cedillo was sitting in her own car at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Cline Avenue when a metal object from stunts involving flying cars on the other side of the road’s median struck her car.
Witnesses said the stunt involved a pressurized cannon launching cars via a steel cable and flipping them in the air.
“The vehicle was being towed by another vehicle,” said fellow extra Blaine Baker. “The cable between the two vehicles broke. It whipped around and sliced thrugh the woman’s car and sliced through her skull, apparently.”
Like all extras on the film, Cedillo was being paid minimum wage and $25 for driving their own cars.
No comment yet from the “Transformers 3” production.
