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Famous Movie Scenes That Nearly Killed Actors

Thrilling cinematography and seamless, country-of-the-fine art special effects have come up such an incredibly long fashion in the modern picture show industry that it can be very easy to forget that in that location'south really still a fair amount of real, honest-to-goodness danger that goes along with making all that Hollywood magic happen. When things don't get exactly the way they're supposed to on the set, some of our favorite stars can finish upwards paying a painful — and lasting — price for the privilege of bringing the audience entertainment. With that in mind, we've put together a look at some of the nigh memorable times when it all went wrong and stars were seriously injured on gear up.

Halle Berry

Halle Berry is an Oscar-winning talent and a seemingly ageless wonder — unfortunately, she might also exist one of the most accident-prone stars in Hollywood. Berry has been injured multiple times while filming over the course of her career, and it'south occasionally actually been fairly serious. She broke an arm during Gothika, hitting her caput on a lighting rig during Catwoman, broke and re-injured her foot during Cloud Atlas, and smashed her head on the floor during The Call. Virtually embarrassingly, Berry had a scarily close castor with death while filming Dice Another Mean solar day...when she high-strung on a fig during a sexual activity scene with Pierce Brosnan. Sadly, that is non a euphemism.

Jason Statham

Starting with his breakout role in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Jason Statham has been 1 of Hollywood's go-to tough guys for high-intensity action movies. Which is why it was no surprise when Sylvester Stallone cast him in The Expendables, the film franchise that basically says "Yo dawg, I heard y'all similar action. Then I put action in your activity so you can lookout action while you watch action." Each one of these films exponentially ratchets up the insanity, and for the third and latest installment, Statham near drowned, got diddled up, or was crushed to death — whichever one of those happens when you drive a truck off a loading dock and into the Black Sea, equally Statham did after something went wrong with the brakes and he went crashing into the water. The truck chop-chop plunged 60 feet, but Statham — who once competed as an Olympic diver — was able to get costless. When asked nearly on-set injuries, he joked, "I snapped a shoelace in the very start scene." This guy is tough as nails and has a sense of humour. Ladies?

Tom Hanks

Y'all wouldn't necessarily think that a movie almost a guy living all by himself for years on a deserted tropical island would finish up being all that dangerous for its star to make, only you lot'd be incorrect. Just inquire America'south dad, Tom Hanks, who nearly died while filming Cast Away —a film that ended upwards being notoriously hard on his body in a surprising number of means. Afterward gaining and losing fifty pounds in order to accurately portray a marooned Fed Ex delivery man — a process that takes a definite physical toll — Hanks suffered a cut on his leg that reportedly swelled for two weeks. When he finally went to a hospital, he was diagnosed with a life-threatening staph infection. Thank you for nothing, Wilson.

Jennifer Lawrence

Hilariously accident-prone Jennifer Lawrence has a addiction of taking a spill while walking onstage to accept awards, but it was no laughing matter when a smoke machine malfunctioned and almost suffocated her on the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Role 1. According to "an insider" on the set, "Filming came to an abrupt halt when this fog machine broke and began spewing so much dumbo smoke during a tunnel sequence that Jennifer literally disappeared from sight." Luckily, she escaped with just a fleck of vertigo and nausea, but this wasn't the only time The Hunger Games series knocked her around. During training, she ran into a wall, sparking rumors that she damaged her spleen — which turned out to be false, but she did have to get an MRI just to exist certain. The next time everyone freaks out when Lawrence asks to exist paid the same every bit her male costars, maybe we should all remember that she's willing to bleed for our entertainment.

George Clooney

George Clooney put audiences on the edge of their seats with his 2005 geopolitical thriller Syriana— and he put himself in unbearable hurting, and somewhen the infirmary, in the bargain. While filming a torture scene for Syriana, Clooney was severely hurt when he sustained a head injury. While he knew he was in pain, doctors were unable to diagnose the exact nature of his injury for many weeks, and his agonizing condition was left untreated. It wasn't until Lisa Kudrow's brother, a neurologist, discovered that Clooney was actually leaking spinal fluid that he was finally able to receive proper treatment. Reportedly, the pain was so intense that Clooney contemplated suicide at one point — which, non that nosotros're holding a grudge or anything, is pretty much how Batman & Robin fabricated everyone else experience.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been in a Batman picture, a time-traveling assassin movie, and a G.I. Joe movie — so it makes sense that he incurred a near-death injury while playing a wheel messenger in Premium Rush, right? Well, kind of, since the actor actually shot scenes in which he cruised between moving cars at speeds up to 30mph. That might not sound very fast, just on a cycle — smashing unprotected into the dorsum window of a cab — information technology's going to hurt. A taxi drove over safety cones during filming and into his shot, cutting Gordon-Levitt off, sending him through the rear windshield and badly slicing upwards his forearm. Manager David Koepp feared he was dead, and later told MTV, "For a moment, you lot're watching the monitors, and for a moment, he leaves frame, and he's wearing a torso mic, then I can hear the most horrible crash. For most xviii seconds earlier I could get at that place to see what happened, I'g thinking, 'Did I kill him? Did I actually kill an actor?"

Gordon-Levitt ended upwardly getting 31 stitches and actually laughed the whole matter off, as seen in the higher up video, smile every bit blood gushes out of his arm. We wonder if he idea it was so funny when the movie'south worldwide gross came in $four meg below the product budget?

Jackie Chan

According to this comprehensive breakdown of Jackie Chan's endless on-set injuries, he'south cleaved almost every bone in his body, torn ligaments, been desperately burned, and damaged his spine on several occasions. Only wait, there's more than! On the set of Armour of God Two, he sustained an injury then bad, he had to have brain surgery. Chan later told Parade, "I nonetheless accept a metal plate in my head and tin can experience the indentation from the touch on."

Compared to some of the stuff he'due south done — like costless-falling 60 feet, sliding down the side of a skyscraper, and getting hit past a real, flying helicopter — the Armour of God 2 stunt was relatively tame. He was jumping from a slope and into a tree when he missed and fell to the ground, smacking his caput on a rock, which sent a piece of his skull into his brain. Amazingly, this happened in the early '90s, and Chan continued to brand many more films, performing nearly all of his own stunts — in other words, the exact reverse of what whatsoever normal person would practice, which is nothing even remotely dangerous ever again. "Oh, you guys are going on that rollercoaster? I'm cool. I'll be over here on this rubber, motionless bench, non having a slice of my brain shoved into my skull over again."

Sylvester Stallone

Existence a Hollywood action hero tin be difficult and dangerous work — simply don't take our word for it. Just ask the legendary Sylvester Stallone, whose blockbuster action thriller filmography has put him in existent-life harm'due south style on more than one occasion. Sly required surgeries after filming two of The Expendables movies, and bankrupt multiple ribs during a jumping stunt as Rambo in Kickoff Blood. Those were but flesh wounds compared to Stallone's scariest and most life-threatening on-prepare injury, however. While filming the 4th installment in his long-runningRockysaga, 1985'due southRocky Four, Stallone bravely (or foolishly — y'all make up one's mind) insisted on actually sparring with his castmate Dolph Lundgren, who played the villainous Ivan Drago. Lundgren isn't a bad guy in real life, but he obliged, hit Stallone so hard that his heart swelled, resulting in a hospital stay (and an bodily IV).

Matthew Play a trick on

During a fight scene in the last episode of Lost, Terry O'Quinn accidentally stabbed co-star Matthew Fox with a fixed prop knife rather than the collapsible one generally used for body blows. According to this breakdown of beau Lost castmate Jorge Garcia'due south description of the incident on his podcast Geronimo Jack'south Beard, there was confusion over which knife was to be used for which scenes, equally well as what kind of padding Fox was going to habiliment to protect himself. Luckily, he was wearing a kevlar vest when the potentially fatal blow was dealt, leaving him only with "a nasty bruise." Non to mention a probably pretty chilly work surroundings for the rest of the mean solar day. We can just imagine O'Quinn trying to have awkward small talk about the quality of the craft services spud salad while Pull a fast one on just glares at him, then down at the cutlery, then dorsum upwards at him once more.

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen was definitely the about injured actor during the filming of the 2nd installment in director Peter Jackson'south blockbuster adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien'sLord of the Ringsbooks, released in 2002 asThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. While Mortensen's castmate Orlando Bloom was besides wounded during filming, hurt in an on-set incident that left him with a cracked delicate Elven rib, Viggo chipped a tooth while shooting an intense boxing scene—and every bit if that wasn't painful enough, the poor guy also broke a couple of toes after kicking a helmet.

Donald Sutherland

Nigh of the people on this list were badly injured — and yep, could take been killed in their on-set accidents — but none went through quite the nightmare Donald Sutherland experienced on the prepare of Kelly's Heroes in 1968, when he contracted pneumococcus bacterium (meningitis) from the Danube River and actually momentarily died. Sutherland claims he had an out-of-body feel and watched himself slide toward a blue light for several moments before somehow being ripped dorsum to reality. His description of the incident to Smithsonian is truly spooky.

"And then, just as I was seconds away from succumbing to the seductions of that matte white light glowing purely at what appeared to be the lesser of it, some key force fiercely grabbed my feet and compelled them to dig my heels in," Sutherland recalled. "The downward journey slowed and stopped. I'd been on my way to beingness dead when some memory of the desperate rigor I'd applied to survive all my childhood illnesses pulled me back. Forced me to live. I was alive. I'd come up out of the coma. Sick every bit a dog, but alive." Wow, that's both poetic and terrifying at one time, especially because it took him over six weeks to recover. Which reminds united states of america: we need to make a notation to never, ever, always prepare foot in the Danube River. Ever.

Charlize Theron

Even at its absolute best, the late-night MTV cult favorite Aeon Flux never made much sense every bit a surrealist cartoon — and information technology fabricated even less every bit a box role flop, declining to earn back its reported upkeep past a $ten meg margin. The audition suffered for star Charlize Theron's fine art, but she suffered plenty as well: in fact, one of the film'south acrobatic stunts left her seriously injured. Early on during filming, while performing a backflip, Theron herniated a disc in her spine, almost damaging her spinal cord. Theron'due south mishap halted filming for a calendar month, and required 6 weeks of physical therapy. Fortunately, she healed — just in time to undergo the years of career therapy she needed after Fluxtanked at the box office. All'southward well that ends well.

Isla Fisher

The 2013 crime antic film Now You lot See Me packs a ton of magical visuals, but the magic of CGI meant the actors never actually had to go in harm's way. Right? Well... not quite. Ane of the stage performances had Isla Fisher's graphic symbol Henley drop, handcuffed, into a giant water tank so she could escape in front of a cheering oversupply. Her chain gets stuck, but moments from death, she escapes in the knick of time. Just in real life, the drama wasn't entirely fake. Merely like her grapheme in the pic, Fisher got stuck in the water tank and spent nearly three full minutes struggling to get out. She told Chelsea Lately, "Anybody idea I was acting fabulously. I was actually drowning... No one realized I was actually struggling."

Michael J. Pull a fast one on

The Back to the Futuremovies are known for laugh-out-loud comedy and fourth dimension-traveling shenanigans, simply non necessarily their expiry-defying stunts. Maybe that'southward why franchise star Michael J. Pull a fast one on felt safe performing his ain stunts during a primal sequence in the Wild West-setBack to the Time to come Three,forgoing the employ of a stand-in during a scene in which his character Marty McFly is hanged by Mad Dog Tannen and his posse. While Fox would more often than not protect his throat with his hands during rehearsals, they didn't seem to help during actual filming, and Fox was asphyxiated and lost consciousness during the actual filming of the scene. Fortunately for Fox and audiences everywhere, the crew somewhen jumped in and averted a real-life crisis when they realized that he wasn't just a practiced actor — he really couldn't breathe.

Kevin Costner

You could safely say that there's never been a better movie about post-apocalyptic gunkhole fights than Waterworld. Which isn't proverb a lot, obviously, just there it is. In that genre, Waterworld is male monarch. Only the fact that information technology exists at all is what's truly surprising. Amid the many, many production difficulties — a ballooning budget, unabridged sets sinking to the bottom of the ocean, and jellyfish only everywhere — one story tends to sink to the bottom of the pile: that time Kevin Costner almost died.

While he was filming a scene that had him tethered to the tiptop of a sailboat's mast, a sudden storm swept over the set and caught Costner dangling from the rickety mast. Wind and waves smashed into him repeatedly, only the squall made it likewise dangerous for the crew to pull him down. According to People, Costner after told a friend that he'd "well-nigh died" during the thirty-minute ordeal.

Daniel Day-Lewis

When we talk about Method acting, a short listing of names and roles generally pops up. Take, for example, Christian Bale in The Machinist or Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Human being on the Moon— and of class, Daniel Day-Lewis equally any grapheme he's always played. Day-Lewis really trained for three years with former champ Barry McGuigan while preparing for his role in The Boxer, and McGuigan afterwards said he "could have turned professional." But those actual beatings he took in the ring weren't as unsafe equally the pneumonia he contracted on the set up of Gangs of New York after refusing to wear annihilation other than his ragged 19th-century wardrobe coat despite frigid temperatures.

He likewise obviously fought random strangers while filming in Rome just to keep in character equally Bill the Butcher, who he described to The Independent as "a bit of a punk, a marvellous character and a joy to be—just not and so good for my physical or mental health." "A joy to be" is an interesting way to describe getting your ass kicked by Italian randos and coughing up blood, simply then again, we're talking about a guy who spent years getting punched in the caput for a movie, so perhaps everything he says isn't going to make the most sense.

Ellen Burstyn

Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has played some harrowing roles in her career, just few of them came with the level of intensity she experienced on the set of 1973'southward The Exorcist. As Chris MacNeil, the mother of trivial demon-possessed Regan, Burstyn went all out in portraying the horror her character experienced during her daughter's progression from a doe-eyed schoolgirl to the potty-mouthed pawn of Satan. Only director William Friedkin wasn't always sold on her functioning, so he took measures to brand sure things got as existent as possible... measures that included giving Burstyn permanent spinal damage.

During the infamous scene when Regan slaps her mother across the room, Burstyn was tied to a cable that yanked her to the floor. Afterward multiple takes, Friedkin told the guy pulling the cable to simply yank the hell out of it for the adjacent one. He did, slamming Burstyn against the floor so hard that she reportedly broke her tailbone and spent years dealing with the injury. Sure, spinal damage can be deadly, but annihilation for a shot, right? That accept — and Burstyn's existent cry of pain — fabricated it into the concluding cut.

Jaimie Alexander

Superhero movies come with large action — and even bigger prophylactic precautions. The boring truth is that every loftier-wire stunt and auto chase that makes its way in forepart of a camera is backed by teams of prophylactic personnel waiting to stride in at the slightest mishap. And yet accidents can still happen, as actress Jaimie Alexander, who plays Sif, unfortunately proved on the set of Thor: The Dark World. While she didn't reveal the scene in which the blow happened, Alexander did say that she majorly damaged her dorsum in the accident: "I herniated a disk in my Thoracic spine, dislocated my left shoulder, tore my right Rhomboid, and chipped eleven vertebra.... The adjacent morning I got in a car to go to the infirmary, and I sabbatum in the car and compressed my spine a fiddling bit, and went paralyzed in my correct leg and my right hand. So I was in the hospital for a week."

Cary Elwes

The Princess Bride is a movie made of memorable moments, but only one of them landed lead thespian Cary Elwes in the hospital. And afterwards yous know nigh information technology, you'll never be able to sentry the scene the same style once more. After Westley and Buttercup escape the burn swamp, they're ambushed by Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen. The scene ends with Rugen bopping Westley on the head to knock him out, just during filming, Christopher Invitee, who played Count Rugen, was afraid to really hit Cary Elwes. Finally, Elwes said basically, "Look, but go alee and hit me for real." The actor obliged and accidentally whacked Elwes unconscious, presumably after sarcastically muttering "Every bit you wish..." In the scene you lot see in the motion picture, Cary Elwes is actually collapsing unconscious from the accident.

Brad Pitt

I of the nigh intense sequences in 1995's Se7en is the scene when Brad Pitt's character, Mills, chases John Doe out of his apartment building. The sequence has Mills fall off a fire escape onto his arm, then get whacked in the aforementioned arm by a crowbar, so it makes sense when Mills shows up with a cast on his arm after in the movie. Just what well-nigh moviegoers didn't know was that the cast was real. While filming that scene, Pitt had to bound across the rain-slicked hoods of moving cars. According to reports, he slipped on one of them and smashed through the windshield, slicing through one of the tendons in his arm. Considering how much worse the blow could have been, an armful of stitches probably didn't seem that bad.

Kate Winslet

If there's one thing you retrieve most Kate Winslet in Titanic, chances are information technology isn't the scene of her running through the ship's hallways to escape the floodwaters. Merely while the drawing scene (and enough of others) well-nigh embarrassed her to death, it was the flooding sequence that came a couple breaths away from killing her. In the scene above, Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio had to run through a narrow hallway below deck while a wave of h2o crashed over them and swept them confronting a locked gate. Winslet'south big coat got caught on the gate, though, and kept her from coming up for air. Winslet was traumatized, merely director James Cameron? He let her grab her jiff and and then gear up for another take, since Winslet had just ruined that one with her silly near-death experience.

Jim Caviezel

Mel Gibson's 2004 epic virtually that guy in the Middle East was polarizing, to say the least. To this day, the controversies over The Passion of the Christ yet lurk in the background whenever Gibson makes the news, even when that news has nothing to do with Passion. (Nosotros just can't stop resurrecting it.) But the man who played Christ himself, Jim Caviezel, has at least one story worth retelling. While filming the Sermon on the Mount, Caviezel was struck by an honest-to-God lightning bolt. And not just a glancing blow — as Caviezel put information technology, "I was lit up like a Christmas tree! ... What [the extras] saw was fire coming out the right and left side of my caput. Illumination around the whole torso." Was it the wrath of God? Or was Caviezel simply standing on a colina during a lightning tempest? Who can say?

Martin Sheen

They say war is hell, but war never visited the ready of Apocalypse Now. The infamously troubled production drove plenty of people — including director Francis Ford Coppola — to the brink of insanity. Simply the 1 event that came the closest to grinding the production to a standstill was 36-year-old Martin Sheen's eye assail in the middle of the jungle. According to the Daily Mail, the crew found Sheen "crawling forth a road looking for help." Keep in mind that this was the star of the movie — and they lost him long enough that they had to notice him on the side of the road. As Coppola relates it, that incident was most the concluding straw that sent him into a nervous breakdown.

That wasn't the only time Sheen damaged himself on the set. In the opening scene (above), he broke the mirror in his room in an unscripted moment, but he was too drunkard to realize that his paw was gushing blood where the drinking glass cutting him. That'southward definitely... some kind of dedication. Probably.

Buster Keaton

Pioneering actor/manager Buster Keaton inspired everyone from Jackie Chan to Mel Brooks with the death-defying stuntwork and masterful visual imagery he pulled off in his silent-era classics. He took his life into his own hands countless times simply for the sake of entertaining his audience with a ane-of-a-kind spectacle, but the stunt cited nigh oftentimes is from one of his concluding features, 1928's Steamboat Neb Jr.

In the memorable, palm-dampening scene, the unabridged front of a prop business firm (weighing two tons) falls forrard and crashes to pieces, while Keaton stands motionless so his body goes through a window instead of existence crushed to death. Kevin Spacey talked near this scene during an American Picture Institute effect, saying, "He had to stand on a marking. I'yard told it was a nail... if he moved an inch to ane side he would accept been crushed to death." Anyone who rolls their eyes at silent blackness-and-white films and writes them off as cheesy, outdated relics needs to be introduced to Buster Keaton — the original badass, and arguably the greatest of the early Hollywood legends who elevated "doing your own stunts" to an fine art form.

Margaret Hamilton

The Wizard of Oz dazzled moviegoers in 1939 with its technicolor vision of Oz, merely non all of the actors escaped that movie magic unscathed. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, came abroad with the worst of it subsequently a stunt left her with third-degree burns. During the scene in which the Wicked Witch interrupts the festivities in Munchkin Land, Hamilton makes a dramatic exit by disappearing in a cloud of fire and fume. The play tricks was, she fell through a trapdoor in the set that was hidden by a plume of smoke, and once she was safely out of harm's way, a jet of flame completed the event for the photographic camera. In 1 accept, however, the trapdoor didn't open when it was supposed to, and Hamilton got defenseless in the pyrotechnic flamethrower, which severely burned her hands and confront. In that big black witch'due south robe, information technology's a miracle she didn't completely grab on burn down.

Diane Kruger

Working with Quentin Tarantino is a dream for many actors, and Diane Kruger is no exception. She told Parade, "I think Quentin's female person characters are just and then smart and then violent. They're impossibly glamorous even so they're as tough as nails. It's such a pleasure to play that kind of role." With that in mind, bank check out this story nigh Tarantino telling Graham Norton how he literally strangled her and briefly cutting off her air supply during her death scene in order to get a more than realistic reaction.

That's not even interim anymore — that's just reckless abandon for someone's life. Sure, there was a stuntman standing past, only how was he supposed to know the exact amount of force per unit area it takes to crusade "psychological injury (PTSD, depression, suicidal ideation, memory problems, nightmares, anxiety, astringent stress reaction, amnesia and psychosis), neurological injury (facial or eyelid droop, left or correct side weakness, loss of sensation, loss of memory and paralysis) and fifty-fifty delayed fatality"? According to DomesticShelters.org , all of those tin can upshot from less than ten seconds of strangulation. Information technology's 1 thing to have a Tarantino movie on your resume; it'south another thing entirely to have a droopy eye for the rest of your life because the director of Pulp Fiction thought information technology would look super rad if he choked you for reals.

Ed Harris

Ed Harris has been eligible for a senior citizen discount for years, but for our money, he still ranks loftier on the list of flick actors you wouldn't want to mess with — and he would take ranked even higher in the late '80s, when Harris worked with managing director James Cameron on 1989'due southThe Abyss.Every bit countless filmmakers have learned the difficult way (and Cameron would learn all once again withTitanic in the '90s), making movies in or around h2o can be incredibly difficult — and this sci-fi story, virtually a crew that finds more than they bargained for when they attempt to recover a sunken submarine, was particularly tough on Cameron'due south cast. In fact, Harris nearly drowned while filming 1 sequence when he waited until the last minute to ask for air — so had to await an actress couple of white-knuckle seconds while an upside-downward regulator was refitted.

"The worst moments for me were existence towed with fluid rushing up my nose and my eyes swelling up," Harris told theNew York Times. "One time, the regulator was put in upside down so that i-one-half of what was going into my lungs was water. For a brief 2nd, I thought, 'This is it'... so I was mad at myself for feeling that panic."

Harris should have taken information technology a little easier on himself — information technology's difficult to imagineanyonenon panicking when they're seconds abroad from drowning. Equally for Cameron, he clearly didn't learn his lesson:Titanicbrutal casualty to all mode of water-related issues, not the least of which was the mishap that nearly killed Kate Winslet.

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