01of 23Harrison FordHarrison Ford.splash newsFordsuffered an injury while rehearsing for thelatestIndiana Jonesmovie in late June 2021.The 78-year-old actor was rehearsing for a fight scene in the film when the injury occurred, according to a statement from Disney.“In the course of rehearsing for a fight scene, Harrison Ford sustained an injury involving his shoulder. Production will continue while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated, and the filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks,” the statement read.Two weeks later,the actor was seenstrolling through London with his arm in a sling.Director James Mangold (Logan, Walk the Line) will continue to film the movie around Ford as he recovers. The movie is currently scheduled for release on July 29, 2022.
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Harrison Ford
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Fordsuffered an injury while rehearsing for thelatestIndiana Jonesmovie in late June 2021.
The 78-year-old actor was rehearsing for a fight scene in the film when the injury occurred, according to a statement from Disney.
“In the course of rehearsing for a fight scene, Harrison Ford sustained an injury involving his shoulder. Production will continue while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated, and the filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks,” the statement read.
Two weeks later,the actor was seenstrolling through London with his arm in a sling.
Director James Mangold (Logan, Walk the Line) will continue to film the movie around Ford as he recovers. The movie is currently scheduled for release on July 29, 2022.
02of 23Jane SeymourJane Seymour.Jane Seymour/InstagramSeymour is on the mend afterfracturing her left kneecapin a fall on the set of her new movieHarry Wild.“I was on the set the other day, and I had to run across a bridge and look for a guy that was being tortured, and I fell,” the 70-year-old actress said on Instagram of shooting in Ireland. “So I’ve got a leg brace, [and] I’ve got crutches.“TheLive and Let DieBond girl added that the injury is severe, having sustained “lots of hairline fractures” on her kneecap.“I did apparently smash my kneecap, so it’s really painful, and I’m not allowed to really move it for about two or three weeks,” Seymour added. “But you know what? I’m acting above the kneecap, and I have a wonderful double for below the kneecap!”
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Jane Seymour
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Seymour is on the mend afterfracturing her left kneecapin a fall on the set of her new movieHarry Wild.
“I was on the set the other day, and I had to run across a bridge and look for a guy that was being tortured, and I fell,” the 70-year-old actress said on Instagram of shooting in Ireland. “So I’ve got a leg brace, [and] I’ve got crutches.”
TheLive and Let DieBond girl added that the injury is severe, having sustained “lots of hairline fractures” on her kneecap.
“I did apparently smash my kneecap, so it’s really painful, and I’m not allowed to really move it for about two or three weeks,” Seymour added. “But you know what? I’m acting above the kneecap, and I have a wonderful double for below the kneecap!”
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Nick Jonas
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The singer revealed hecracked a ribin a bicycling accident, which happened while filmingOlympic Dreams Featuring Jonas Brothers. Explaining the injury,The Voicejudge said he “cracked a rib from a spill on a bike and a few other bumps and bruises.”
Though Jonas was hospitalized for his injuries, he was determined to carry out his hosting duties at the 2021Billboard Music Awards- which he did.
“I’m feeling really good, all things considered. Day to day the improvement has been great. It’s one of those frustrating injuries because there’s really nothing you can do about it except just wait it out, but could have been a lot worse and I feel very lucky that it was all good in the end,” he said of the healing process. “It was intense but I’m here and I feel great.”
“That’s kind of my attitude about everything: nothing’s going to hold me back,” he added.
04of 23Josh DuhamelJosh Duhamel.David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via GettyThe actor is thanking his lucky stars that he wasn’t injured worse in a"near-death experience"in the Dominican Republic, on location forShotgun Wedding.Duhamel said he’d often hang out at the beach when he wasn’t on set, spending time in a cove that was typically tranquil - but one day, the waves were “tumultuous.” As he filmed the 30-foot waves crashing down, the sea came far too close for comfort.“This rogue wave comes up as I’m videotaping this thing and literally washed me almost over the edge of this cliff,” Duhamel said onTheTonight Show.The actor said he was standing on “razor-sharp coral” when the powerful wave knocked him off his feet down, leaving him with scraped legs.“It was one of the near-death experiences of my life, for sure,” he recalled.
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Josh Duhamel
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The actor is thanking his lucky stars that he wasn’t injured worse in a"near-death experience"in the Dominican Republic, on location forShotgun Wedding.
Duhamel said he’d often hang out at the beach when he wasn’t on set, spending time in a cove that was typically tranquil - but one day, the waves were “tumultuous.” As he filmed the 30-foot waves crashing down, the sea came far too close for comfort.
“This rogue wave comes up as I’m videotaping this thing and literally washed me almost over the edge of this cliff,” Duhamel said onTheTonight Show.The actor said he was standing on “razor-sharp coral” when the powerful wave knocked him off his feet down, leaving him with scraped legs.
“It was one of the near-death experiences of my life, for sure,” he recalled.
05of 23Jennifer LawrenceNeilson Barnard/GettyThe Oscar winner was injured afterglass from a stunt explosionhurt her eye on set - ironically of a film calledDon’t Look Up. Lawrence was filming the Netflix movie in Boston when debris from glass that was set to shatter on cue hit “near her eye,” according to Page Six. She was expected to recover.
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Jennifer Lawrence
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The Oscar winner was injured afterglass from a stunt explosionhurt her eye on set - ironically of a film calledDon’t Look Up. Lawrence was filming the Netflix movie in Boston when debris from glass that was set to shatter on cue hit “near her eye,” according to Page Six. She was expected to recover.
06of 23Blake LivelyAndrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesLivelyshattered her right handwhile filming a fight scene forTheRhythm Section, in an accident that halted production for half a year.“We were doing all of our own stunts. One-shot fight sequences, which is how I shattered my hand,” the actress toldGood Morning America. “We shut down for six months. My hand basically turned to feta cheese.“Recalling the accident, Lively said “I was lunging towardsJude Lawwith my fake rubber knife and my hand collided with his elbow and I broke some things, dislocated some things and severed a ligament. It was pretty intense. But that’s why you guys have to see this movie, out of sheer guilt. I gave my right hand for something!“Ever one to tease on social media, Lively previously poked fun at herself in a video shared to her on her Instagram Stories. The clip showed her lying in a hospital bed with her arm in a sling after she was injured in December 2017.“Literally 4 weeks after I said, ‘I’d give my right hand to be in this movie!’ (Good thing no one told me to ‘break a leg’),” the star joked.
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Blake Lively
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Livelyshattered her right handwhile filming a fight scene forTheRhythm Section, in an accident that halted production for half a year.
“We were doing all of our own stunts. One-shot fight sequences, which is how I shattered my hand,” the actress toldGood Morning America. “We shut down for six months. My hand basically turned to feta cheese.”
Recalling the accident, Lively said “I was lunging towardsJude Lawwith my fake rubber knife and my hand collided with his elbow and I broke some things, dislocated some things and severed a ligament. It was pretty intense. But that’s why you guys have to see this movie, out of sheer guilt. I gave my right hand for something!”
Ever one to tease on social media, Lively previously poked fun at herself in a video shared to her on her Instagram Stories. The clip showed her lying in a hospital bed with her arm in a sling after she was injured in December 2017.
“Literally 4 weeks after I said, ‘I’d give my right hand to be in this movie!’ (Good thing no one told me to ‘break a leg’),” the star joked.
07of 23Rachel BrosnahanPaul Zimmerman/BAFTA/ShutterstockBeauty is pain - and the star ofTheMarvelous Mrs. Maiselknows this all too well. During an episode ofThe Late Late Showwith James Corden, Brosnahan revealed that she had suffered from a “corset-related injury” from constantly having to wear one to achieve Midge Maisel’s look.“We talk so fast on the show that to get all the words out you can’t really take very many breaths,” she explained. “And I think I wasn’t breathing a lot and I was a bit constrained and apparently some of my ribs are sort of fused together.““I can’t take super deep breaths anymore,” Brosnahan added.
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Rachel Brosnahan
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Beauty is pain - and the star ofTheMarvelous Mrs. Maiselknows this all too well. During an episode ofThe Late Late Showwith James Corden, Brosnahan revealed that she had suffered from a “corset-related injury” from constantly having to wear one to achieve Midge Maisel’s look.
“We talk so fast on the show that to get all the words out you can’t really take very many breaths,” she explained. “And I think I wasn’t breathing a lot and I was a bit constrained and apparently some of my ribs are sort of fused together.”
“I can’t take super deep breaths anymore,” Brosnahan added.
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The formerBatwomanstarhad to get emergency surgeryfor injuries that she sustained while doing stunt work.
The actress posted a graphic video of the surgical process to social media saying, “To everyone asking about my new Pez dispenser scar on my neck… A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming paralyzed.”
Sherevealed on Instagram, “I had herniated two discs doing stunts, and they were close to severing my spinal chord. I was in chronic pain and yet couldn’t feel my arms.”
09of 23Justin TherouxJason LaVeris/FilmMagicTherouxsuffered a head injury while filming his comedy,The Spy Who Dumped Me.“I play this kind of action guy,“he explained onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I had a scooter accident… I’m peeling away, and it’s like the last shot of the day or the last day I’m working, and I realize as I’m coming up on the next street that there’s no lock-up, there’s still actual cars going back and forth. So I grab both breaks, skidded out and kinda went flying off the bike and landed on my head. [I] broke my head open.”
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Justin Theroux
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Therouxsuffered a head injury while filming his comedy,The Spy Who Dumped Me.
“I play this kind of action guy,“he explained onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I had a scooter accident… I’m peeling away, and it’s like the last shot of the day or the last day I’m working, and I realize as I’m coming up on the next street that there’s no lock-up, there’s still actual cars going back and forth. So I grab both breaks, skidded out and kinda went flying off the bike and landed on my head. [I] broke my head open.”
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Tom Cruise
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The extent of Cruise’s injuries were not known, and reps for Cruise and Paramount did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment at the time.
11of 23Jeremy RennerRenner broke not one, but two arms on the set of his comedyTag.“It was a stunt - falling off a stack of chairs like 20 feet. And the chairs didn’t fall, but I fell onto my arms,” he explained onThe Tonight Show. “I knew when I hit the ground that it wasn’t good. So I couldn’t feel my arms. But then I went back up the stack of chairs, did it again, did okay. And then I went to the hospital at lunch and they said, ‘that’s broken, that’s broken.’ I’m like, ‘okay, cool.’ And then I went back to work.“The actor stayed positive about his injury. “Fall down seven times… stand up 8! #fixedup #pushthrough,” he captioned anInstagram photoof his twin splints.
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Jeremy Renner
Renner broke not one, but two arms on the set of his comedyTag.
“It was a stunt - falling off a stack of chairs like 20 feet. And the chairs didn’t fall, but I fell onto my arms,” he explained onThe Tonight Show. “I knew when I hit the ground that it wasn’t good. So I couldn’t feel my arms. But then I went back up the stack of chairs, did it again, did okay. And then I went to the hospital at lunch and they said, ‘that’s broken, that’s broken.’ I’m like, ‘okay, cool.’ And then I went back to work.”
The actor stayed positive about his injury. “Fall down seven times… stand up 8! #fixedup #pushthrough,” he captioned anInstagram photoof his twin splints.
12of 23Priyanka Chopra JonasSplash News OnlineTheQuanticostar suffered a concussion when she took a nasty fall on set.“It was raining and the roads were wet and I was in rubber boots and we were running out of time. I wasn’t warned of the conditions that were outside before we went and me and my colleague, both of us fell and we were both rushed to the ER,“she told PEOPLEshortly after the fall.“I’m done resting after three days, I can’t do more than that. It was three days of just sitting on my couch, in my bed and I was ready to get back to work. The doctors okay’d me to travel as long as I don’t do any physical activity, as in stunts and stuff. But it was a little bit of a scare, I have to admit.““I absolutely feel safe on set,” Chopra added. “My show is an extremely physical show. We shoot nine scenes a day, we are an extremely fast-paced show and I have a lot of physicality. So yeah, things can happen, and the producers are very, very aware and concerned and they’ve been really wonderful with me. So I’m pretty sure it won’t happen [again], but when you do stunts, that happens.”
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas
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TheQuanticostar suffered a concussion when she took a nasty fall on set.
“It was raining and the roads were wet and I was in rubber boots and we were running out of time. I wasn’t warned of the conditions that were outside before we went and me and my colleague, both of us fell and we were both rushed to the ER,“she told PEOPLEshortly after the fall.
“I’m done resting after three days, I can’t do more than that. It was three days of just sitting on my couch, in my bed and I was ready to get back to work. The doctors okay’d me to travel as long as I don’t do any physical activity, as in stunts and stuff. But it was a little bit of a scare, I have to admit.”
“I absolutely feel safe on set,” Chopra added. “My show is an extremely physical show. We shoot nine scenes a day, we are an extremely fast-paced show and I have a lot of physicality. So yeah, things can happen, and the producers are very, very aware and concerned and they’ve been really wonderful with me. So I’m pretty sure it won’t happen [again], but when you do stunts, that happens.”
13of 23Kate WinsletStephane Cardinale /Corbis/GettyWinslet almost drowned while filming aTitanicscene when her heavy coat snagged on a gate and she was briefly submerged.“I had to sort of shimmy out of the coat to get free,“she told theLos Angeles Times. “I had no breath left. I thought I’d burst. And [director James Cameron] just said, ‘Okay, let’s go again.’ That was his attitude. I didn’t want to be a wimp so I didn’t complain.”
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Kate Winslet
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Winslet almost drowned while filming aTitanicscene when her heavy coat snagged on a gate and she was briefly submerged.
“I had to sort of shimmy out of the coat to get free,“she told theLos Angeles Times. “I had no breath left. I thought I’d burst. And [director James Cameron] just said, ‘Okay, let’s go again.’ That was his attitude. I didn’t want to be a wimp so I didn’t complain.”
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Dylan O’Brien
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In July 2017, O’Brien discussed starting work onAmerican Assassinwhile still recovering from his injuries. “The state that you’re in after something like that, you just want to run from all that stuff. I didn’t really even want to leave my couch necessarily when I was allowed to. So, yeah. It was a big step doing this,“he toldEntertainment Tonight.
“At the time that I came in … I was still at the very end of recovery there when I started, so that was probably the biggest challenge,” he added. “All the training was very good for my mind and very good for recovery, in a way…It really ended up being [therapeutic]. It came at a great time for me.”
15of 23Ike BarinholtzMichael Kovac/GettyThe Mindy Projectstar broke his neck while shooting his film,The Pact.“We knew something was wrong right away,“he told PEOPLEof falling from a high platform. “It was scary and was touch and go for a while. Luckily, I’ve had great doctors who have really helped me with my recovery.” Barinholtz’s injuries included two fractured cervical vertebrae in his neck. “I have to wear an incredibly stylish neck brace for a while as the bone heals. It’s a cool look, especially in the summer,” he joked.Despite the injury, the actor still appeared in the final season ofThe Mindy Project. “After the accident, I talked to Mindy [Kaling] and we agreed that the only option was writing it into the show,” he shared. “Luckily, onThe Mindy ProjectI play[ed] a character who could break his neck falling out of his bunk bed and it’s completely believable.”
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Ike Barinholtz
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The Mindy Projectstar broke his neck while shooting his film,The Pact.
“We knew something was wrong right away,“he told PEOPLEof falling from a high platform. “It was scary and was touch and go for a while. Luckily, I’ve had great doctors who have really helped me with my recovery.” Barinholtz’s injuries included two fractured cervical vertebrae in his neck. “I have to wear an incredibly stylish neck brace for a while as the bone heals. It’s a cool look, especially in the summer,” he joked.
Despite the injury, the actor still appeared in the final season ofThe Mindy Project. “After the accident, I talked to Mindy [Kaling] and we agreed that the only option was writing it into the show,” he shared. “Luckily, onThe Mindy ProjectI play[ed] a character who could break his neck falling out of his bunk bed and it’s completely believable.”
16of 23Charlize TheronNoam Galai/GettyWhile performing a series of backflips forÆon Flux, Theron landed on her neck and herniated a disk near her spine.“That injury scared me - I was almost paralyzed,“she toldTotal Filmmagazine. As a result, she was cautious about her stunt work onMad Max: Fury Road: “You do everything you can do, but I’m definitely at a place where I can say, ‘I don’t need to do that.”
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Charlize Theron
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While performing a series of backflips forÆon Flux, Theron landed on her neck and herniated a disk near her spine.
“That injury scared me - I was almost paralyzed,“she toldTotal Filmmagazine. As a result, she was cautious about her stunt work onMad Max: Fury Road: “You do everything you can do, but I’m definitely at a place where I can say, ‘I don’t need to do that.”
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Jennifer Lawrence (Again)
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“I went deaf in one ear for months… But that wasn’t actually physically challenging,“the actress toldVanity Fairin 2013. “It was just ear-challenging because I got all of these ear infections from the diving and the water and all of that stuff. And then a jet from one of the Cornucopia scenes punctured my eardrum.”
18of 23Édgar RamírezPhillip Faraone/GettyThanks to an unlikely animal hero, the actor escaped an avalanche, injury-free, while filming his movieGoldin the jungles of Southeast Asia.“Yeah, there was an avalanche, there was a tree avalanche when we were shooting in a little hut, this little cabin in the jungle, and there was this noise that was getting louder and louder and louder,” Ramírez recounted on PEOPLE Now.“And then suddenly we looked at the Thai crew, [they] started to scream in Thai, but in horror. And then we realized that something was coming down on us and then we had to jump out of the cabin. I landed on a goat.” Ramírez assured PEOPLE that everyone, including the goat, was unharmed.
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Édgar Ramírez
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Thanks to an unlikely animal hero, the actor escaped an avalanche, injury-free, while filming his movieGoldin the jungles of Southeast Asia.
“Yeah, there was an avalanche, there was a tree avalanche when we were shooting in a little hut, this little cabin in the jungle, and there was this noise that was getting louder and louder and louder,” Ramírez recounted on PEOPLE Now.
“And then suddenly we looked at the Thai crew, [they] started to scream in Thai, but in horror. And then we realized that something was coming down on us and then we had to jump out of the cabin. I landed on a goat.” Ramírez assured PEOPLE that everyone, including the goat, was unharmed.
19of 23George ClooneyDoug Peters/ EMPICS Entertainment/ABACAClooney endured a grueling recovery process after sustaining injuries on his 2005 filmSyriana,for which he would eventually win an Oscar.“There was this scene where I was taped to a chair and getting beaten up, and we did quite a few takes. The chair was kicked over and I hit my head,“Clooney explained of the accident on NPR. “I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine, which holds in spinal fluid.“Recounting his almost unbearable pain inRolling Stone, the actor revealed that he at times considered “drastic” measures to escape his suffering.“I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live.’ I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you’re having a stroke, and for a short three-week period, I started to think, ‘I may have to do something drastic about this,’ " he said. “You start to think in terms of, you don’t want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, start the engine. It seems like the nicest way to do it, but I never thought I’d get there. See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive.”
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George Clooney
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Clooney endured a grueling recovery process after sustaining injuries on his 2005 filmSyriana,for which he would eventually win an Oscar.
“There was this scene where I was taped to a chair and getting beaten up, and we did quite a few takes. The chair was kicked over and I hit my head,“Clooney explained of the accident on NPR. “I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine, which holds in spinal fluid.”
Recounting his almost unbearable pain inRolling Stone, the actor revealed that he at times considered “drastic” measures to escape his suffering.
“I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live.’ I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you’re having a stroke, and for a short three-week period, I started to think, ‘I may have to do something drastic about this,’ " he said. “You start to think in terms of, you don’t want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, start the engine. It seems like the nicest way to do it, but I never thought I’d get there. See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive.”
20of 23Isla FisherSplash News OnlineFisher almost drowned while performing a water tank magic trick scene for 2013’sNow You See Me.“I was in a tank of water … even though I had a quick release magnetic thing on my handcuffs, the chain that went between my ankles and my wrists was not able to be broken and it got stuck underneath the slot and I was trapped,” she explained in an interview withOn Demand Entertainment.“I was very scared. I was banging and saying ‘set me free’ but everyone just thought I was doing fabulous acting. They thought I was being Meryl Streep in the tank; actually, I was drowning,” she added.
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Isla Fisher
Fisher almost drowned while performing a water tank magic trick scene for 2013’sNow You See Me.
“I was in a tank of water … even though I had a quick release magnetic thing on my handcuffs, the chain that went between my ankles and my wrists was not able to be broken and it got stuck underneath the slot and I was trapped,” she explained in an interview withOn Demand Entertainment.
“I was very scared. I was banging and saying ‘set me free’ but everyone just thought I was doing fabulous acting. They thought I was being Meryl Streep in the tank; actually, I was drowning,” she added.
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Johnny Depp
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Later recalling the terrifying experience toEntertainment Tonight, the sound of the horse’s feet now seal the memory in his mind.
“‘Hooves.’ ‘Hooves’ is what was going through my mind,” Depp said. “It was a strange moment because it wasn’t like one of those adrenaline-filled moments where you’re flipping out and panicking and stuff like that.”
“I was very lucky, because it could have been horrific,” he added.
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Jaimie Alexander
The actress took a horrific fall on the set ofThor: The Dark World.
“Then, I was okay, but I was in a lot of pain. The next morning I got in a car to go back to the hospital, because I said ‘something feels wrong,’ and I sat in the car where I compressed my spine a little bit, and I went paralyzed in my right leg and my right hand. So I was in the hospital for a week, but it was a thing where it was just a swelling thing.”
After a month of physical rehab, Alexander was back in fight mode.
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Jim Caviezel
“I was lit up like a Christmas tree! I was doing the Sermon on the Mount. I knew it was going to hit me about four seconds before it happened. I thought, ‘I’m going to get hit.’ And when it happened, I saw the extras grab the ground,” he said during aninterview with Scott Ross. “What they saw was fire coming out the right and left side of my head. Illumination around the whole body.”
source: people.com
