19 actors who got sick, injured, or even almost died on the set (37 photos)
Truly dedicated actors are ready for anything, so that each of their roles was better than the previous one - even risking their lives. However, sometimes no one asks them. Here are some famous cases where the shooting of films almost turned into a tragedy - whether due to the dedication of the actors or a fatal combination of circumstances. 
1. While filming her character's death in Girl Promising, Carey Mulligan almost suffocated. 
During one take, her stage partner Chris Lowell pressed the pillow tightly against Carey's face that she couldn't breathe. Actor explained that at first he did not understand what was happening, but stopped immediately, as soon as Carrie gave him the signal. "She sat down and took off her pillow, and tears just splattered out of her eyes,” Lowell recalls. - She knew that safe and ok, but it was terrible because she had to experience this moment." 
2. During the filming of Cast Away, Tom Hanks refused to bathe, which nearly killed him. 
“[Outcast] sent me to the hospital. I lay there for three days with the thing that, believe it or not, nearly killed me, the actor said. “I got a [staph] infection from a cut, and she ate my leg. I did not know that; I thought I was normal wound. I went to the doctor, who looked at her and immediately said, "I must put you in the hospital; we need to cure this infection before she will poison your blood and you will die.” 
3. Brendan Fraser passed out while filming The Mummy with noose around my neck because I wanted the scene to look as good as possible realistic. 
"I remember the camera zoomed in and I thought, 'I'll do it this way. to make it look really good", so I made some deep breaths and pushed,” Frazier said. “And then I realized that I'm standing on tiptoe, and the rope is going up, and I have nowhere to go. A then the world kind of faded. 
4. During the filming of the film "The Maze Runner: The Cure for death" Dylan O'Brien fell from a moving car and was immediately hit by another car. 
As a result, the actor earned a concussion, a fracture of the facial bones and lacerations, as well as mental trauma. For recovery at it took him several months, and he did not dare to shoot the next militant. 
5. In 2019, Zac Efron contracted typhoid while filming his show Kill Zac Efron in Papua New Guinea. 
As a result, the actor had to be airlifted to Brisbane, Australia, where he was transferred to the hospital. Luckily he is pretty fast. recovered and finished filming his show.
6. During his career, Jackie Chan managed to break almost all the bones in body, and as a result of a stunt during the filming of "The Armor of God" got a hole in my head. 
During the trick, he had to jump over a tree, but the branches didn't last and broke. In the fall, Jackie tried to grab onto the others. branches, but even those broke. As a result, he fell to the ground and cut himself skull, his whole body was numb, and blood gushed from his ear. 
7. Charlize Theron was "on the verge of complete paralysis for the whole the rest of my life" during the filming of a stunt for the film "Aeon Flux". 
According to the actress, as a result of "terrible unfortunate chance", she fell and landed badly on her neck, after which for years suffered from pain and spasms. The injury was so severe that she I had to do a neck fusion to fix the damage. 
8. During the filming of Titanic, Kate Winslet nearly drowned when her clothes caught on an underwater set. 
"I had to wriggle out of my coat to get free - she remembered. “I have no air left in my lungs. I thought that burst. And [director James Cameron] just said, "Okay, let's do some more once". That was his attitude. I didn't mean to seem weak so she didn't complain. 
9. Kristin Chenoweth ended up in the hospital after being on filming The Good Wife, the lighting equipment "hit her in the face and then threw her onto the curb.” 
As a result, the actress earned a 17-centimeter crack in skull, fractured her teeth and ribs, and damaged her hairline. While CBS stated that the lighting equipment was "blown away by a gust of wind." Kristin never returned to the series after this accident. 
10. Sylvester Stallone wanted the fight scenes in Rocky IV looked realistic, so I asked Dolph Lundgren to forget about choreography and "just try to charge him". 
As a result, Lundgren beat him so hard that Stallone spent in intensive care unit for nine days. His doctors told him that Dolph's punch was so powerful that he "hooked on the ribs and hit the heart on chest" - such an injury is usually observed after frontal collisions. 
11. While filming Syriana, George Clooney accidentally fell, hit his head and ruptured the dura mater. 
The actor suffered excruciating pain - so severe that even contemplated suicide. "It got to the point where I started thinking, 'I'm not I can exist. I can't really live," he said. - I lay on a hospital bed with a drip in his hand, could not move, I had headaches that felt like a stroke, and within three weeks I began to think: "Maybe I will have to do something radical." 
12. Isla Fisher almost drowned in front of the entire cast and crew of the film "Illusion of Deception." 
According to her, the film crew did not immediately understand this, because that everyone just thought she was playing. "They thought I was Meryl The strip is there in the tank - but in fact I was drowning, ”she said.
In this scene, she was chained up and loaded into a tank of water. Fisher was handcuffed with a magnetic chain, thanks to which she could break them easily. According to the actress, the chain that passed between her legs, did not want to break, and she got stuck. 
13. Ashton Kutcher got pancreatitis and ended up in the hospital twice while preparing to play Steve Jobs in Jobs. 
Steve Jobs called himself a fruitarian and lived predominantly on a fruit diet, which Ashton tried reproduce. His wife Mila Kunis explained: “He was such a fool. IN at some point he ate only grapes ... we hit twice hospital. With pancreatitis! It was really stupid!” 
14. While working on The Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton - Wicked Witch of the West - suffered second-degree burns to his face and third degree hand burns 
According to the plot, she was supposed to effectively disappear in the languages flame, but the hatch under her feet did not open, and the actress was engulfed flame. Hamilton was recovering for six weeks, after which she returned on set and stated, “I know how this business works and would never go back to work. I'll be back on one condition no more fireworks!"
15. Jennifer Lopez almost fell off a cliff inabout filming time film "My Pirate Wedding", but she was saved by co-star Josh Duhamel. 
In one of the scenes, her dress was supposed to catch on car falling off a cliff. During filming, Lopez realized that her dress was really hooked - then she grabbed Josh, who managed to save her. 
16. Filming a stunt for Quantico Base, Priyanka Chopra fell and hit her head, as a result of which she was taken away by an ambulance. 
“I, as usual, had to save someone,” Priyanka said. - I was in rubber boots, it was raining, and on the floor was plastic and I slipped on it. Just imagine: I I do so many stunts all the time and this is how I get a concussion? 
17. While filming Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis got sick. pneumonia, refusing to wear a warm jacket during breaks, because in These did not exist in the 1860s. 
The actor later said, "I admit I'm crazy, absolutely crazy”, and that this role “didn’t work very well on my physical or mental health." 
18. Gary Oldman got nicotine poisoning on the set of The Dark Ones. times", having smoked Winston Churchill's favorite cigars in the amount of 20,000 dollars. 
“I got serious nicotine poisoning,” said Hollywood Reporter actor. — I had a cigar smoked for three quarter, I lit it, and then after a couple of puffs it went out, and then the props gave me a new cigar - we repeated this for 10 or 12 duplicates of one scene. 
19. Michael J. Fox nearly got hanged for real while filming Back to the Future 3 
Although the stunt rehearsals went well, Michael was unable to put your hand in the right place, and the rope was so tight that cut off his oxygen. In his memoir Lucky, he wrote: "I blabbed unconscious at the end of the rope for a few seconds before Bob Zemeckis, although he was my fan, realized that even I was not that good actor". 
