Grant Imahara, the host of the long-running science present MythBusters and Netflix’s White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49 years outdated.
Imahara died instantly after a mind aneurysm on Monday, July 13, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We’re heartbroken to listen to this unhappy information about Grant,” Discovery mentioned in assertion to TV Information. “He was an essential a part of our Discovery household and a very great man. Our ideas and prayers exit to his household.”
Imahara was born in Los Angeles and studied electrical engineering on the College of Southern California. After commencement, he labored for Lucasfilm’s THX labs, finally becoming a member of Industrial Gentle and Magic and dealing on animatronics and fashions within the Star Wars prequels (he helped replace the R2-D2 robots), in addition to films within the Jurassic Park, Matrix, and Terminator franchises, amongst others.
He joined MythBusters in 2005, serving because the present’s co-host and third member of the Construct Staff, alongside Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. Almost a decade later, the trio left the present collectively in 2014, solely to reunite for Netflix’s 10-episode collection White Rabbit Undertaking. Byron shared pictures of her late co-host on social media on Monday night, writing in one tweet, “Somedays I want I had a time machine.”
Somedays I want I had a time machine. @ToryBelleci @grantimahara pic.twitter.com/o9FRE2l16W
— Kari Byron (@KariByron) July 13, 2020
MythBusters co-star Adam Savage additionally paid tribute on Twitter, writing, “I am at a loss. No phrases. I have been a part of two large households with Grant Imahara over the past 22 years. Grant was a really sensible engineer, artist and performer, but in addition simply such a beneficiant, easygoing, and delicate PERSON. Working with Grant was a lot enjoyable. I will miss my pal.”
I’m at a loss. No phrases. I’ve been a part of two large households with Grant Imahara over the past 22 years. Grant was a really sensible engineer, artist and performer, but in addition simply such a beneficiant, easygoing, and delicate PERSON. Working with Grant was a lot enjoyable. I’ll miss my pal.
— Adam Savage (@donttrythis) July 14, 2020
Along with MythBusters and White Rabbit, Imahara was enmeshed within the geek popular culture scene, showing in a number of Star Trek fan movies; a Sharknado film; the BattleBots collection; and extra. He even labored on the Energizer Bunny robotic.
In a 2014 article for MakeZine, Imahara wrote that enjoying with Lego at a younger age “helped form the best way I have a look at fixing issues.” Years later, in highschool, he noticed a glimpse of his future. “I solely realized what an engineer was from a school steering counselor. When she described it, a lightweight clicked on in my head, and I mentioned, ‘Sure, that is what I wish to do.’ “
In one other interview with Machine Design, Imahara mentioned engineering got here naturally to him. “After I was a child, I by no means needed to be James Bond,” he mentioned. “I needed to be Q, as a result of he was the man who made all of the devices.”
Imahara is survived by his associate, costume designer Jennifer Newman, who posted a tribute on Twitter. “I have not discovered the phrases. I do not know if I will be capable to. I misplaced part of my coronary heart and soul right now,” she wrote. “He was so beneficiant and sort, so endlessly candy and so beloved by his unbelievable mates. I really feel so fortunate to have identified him, to have beloved & been beloved by him.”
I have not discovered the phrases. I do not know if I will be capable to. I misplaced part of my coronary heart and soul right now.
He was so beneficiant and sort, so endlessly candy and so beloved by his unbelievable mates. I really feel so fortunate to have identified him, to have beloved & been beloved by him.
I really like you, honey. pic.twitter.com/d7secP1Ols— Jenny N (@Jennernugen) July 14, 2020