If you think that making movies is anything but dangerous, we have a few stories that
will make you change your mind. What if we tell you that Charlize Theron and Ruby Rose
could have been paralyzed while filming their movies? Did you know that Hollywood dreamboats
Channing Tatum and Hugh Jackman got serious injuries in their very intimate area? And
Holywood A-lister George Clooney was in so much pain after the injury that he even contemplated
ending his life. That's surely not the full list of shocking facts we have prepared for
you today. Intrigued?
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A-listers who suffered really bad injuries on the set.
Hugh Jackman The famous Aussie has had several dangerous
accidents on the set - this is basically what it takes when you play Wolverine. In 2003,
Jackman nearly castrated himself (not for the first time, by the way) while filming
X-Men 2. He stabbed himself too close to the intimate area - in the upper thigh, with his
own claws.
How could that happen, you might ask? Jackman reportedly attempted to cover his naked manhood
from the eyes of the female crew who surprised him while he was shooting a naked scene. He
covered the intimate area forgetting about the claws.
He also scratched himself next to his left eye, and now he has a permanent scar there.
The actor said he had no control of his limbs at that time. Thankfully, important parts
of his body remained intact and unscarred!
Kate Winslet Winslet revealed she almost drowned on the
set of the iconic 1997 film Titanic. During the shooting of a scene inside the sinking
ship, her coat snagged on a gate she was running past and pulled her under the water.
“I had to sort of shimmy out of the coat to get free. I had no breath left. I thought
I’d burst."
Winslet was so stressed that for the first time in her life on a film set she wished
he was not there. However, the movie director, James Cameron, who won an Oscar for Titanic,
believes that her life was never in danger.
George Clooney Clooney's performance in the American geopolitical
thriller film Syriana would eventually win him an Oscar, but not many know the price
he had to pay for it.
During a famous scene in which Clooney is tied to a chair, the chair was accidentally
knocked over backward with Clooney still tied to it. The actor banged his head and suffered
a serious spinal injury which took him months to recover from. According to his own confessions,
before the surgery he had such horrible headaches that he contemplated suicie just to get away
from the intense pain.
'Before the surgery it was the most unbearable pain I've ever been through, literally where
you'd go, "well, you'll have to kill yourself at some point, you can't live like this"'
Clooney could not take painkillers not to get addicted to them, since several members
of his family had suffered that fate.
Johnny Depp In 2013, while filming The Lone Ranger, Depp
was thrown from a horse and almost trampled by the animal. The harrowing moment was captured
on film. The actor, who was 50 then, thinks he is a lucky man to get out of that incident
almost injury-free. According to Depp, the consequences could have been horrific.
Depp believes the bond he forged with his horse made it react instinctively to ensure
his fall wasn't so bad. We all remember how a similar accident left
Christopher Reeve, paralyzed for life. The Superman actor fell forward off the horse,
he landed head first on the far side of the fence, shattering his first and second vertebrae.
Ruby Rose When the Australian actress departed the superhero
series Batwoman after just one season, there was not much specifics provided behind her
exit. Rose disclosed the dire details some time later. She posted a graphic video of
the surgical process on her social media saying:
"A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming
paralyzed. "
It turns out the 34-year-old herniated two discs doing stunts and they were close to
severing her spinal chord. Rose was in chronic pain and yet couldn't feel her arms. She had
the surgery and then, 10 days later, she went to work, which she admits was not the best
idea. But being the lead of the show, she felt responsible for the production.
However, Rose told Entertainment Weekly that her decision to leave the series was not just
due to her injury. She made up her mind to leave the show amid the coronavirus-related
shutdown.
"You know, you have time in quarantine and sort of isolation to just think about a lot
of different things and what you want to achieve in life and what you want to do. I think for
both [me and the producers], it was a great opportunity to have a dialogue about a lot
of things."
Jim Caviezel For the actor who portrayed Jesus in Mel Gibson's
scandalous film The Passion Of The Christ, the role proved to be challenging not only
emotionally, but also physically.
A weird series of injuries befell him on set, more than one of which could have killed him.
They include accidental whipping the movie lead for real, leaving a 14-inch gash on his
back. Also, a cross fell on him at some point, sending the actor face-down in the sand and
causing him bite his own tongue. By the way, this shot was added to the film and the blood
you see pouring from his mouth is real.
The most frightening incident, however, occurred during the filming of Jesus's famous Sermon
on the Mount: Caviezel got struck by lightning. The actor says that smoke came out of his
ears, but he must have been properly grounded because he sustained only minor injuries.
Charlize Theron A fan of doing her own stunts, Theron badly
injured herself on the set of dystopian film Aeon Flux in 2005. Only 10 days into filming,
the actress performed a backflip for one of the scenes and landed on her neck. Doctors
were saying she might get paralyzed. Thankfully, the actress made a full recovery, but the
production had to be shut down for some time.
Channing Tatum The Hollywood dreambot had a sensitive episode
in 2010 while filming The Eagle in the Scottish Highlands.
In conversation with Howard Stern, Tatum explained how it was so cold they used to pour hot water
down their pants to heat up. One of the crew members handed him some water but forgot to
tell him it was not just hot, but BOILING hot. So, Tatum burned his private part. The
Magic Mike star described his ordeal as follows:
"I started hyperventilating, screaming... You know when you burn your finger and it
just keeps burning. It kept burning for like the next 20 to 30 minutes. I was having a
complete panic attack."
We can only be guessing how it hurt, Channing!
Michael J. Fox One routine day on the set of Back to the
Future Part III could have cost Michael J. Fox his life. Remember the moment when Doc
saves Marty from being hung? Fox really did have a noose around his neck! As he wrote
later in his autobiography, he mistimed moving his hand to save his own life during the seventh
take. As a result, the actor passed out for 30 seconds.
Tom Cruise The Mission Impossible lead is famous for
his commitment to doing his own stunts. Not surprisingly, over his long career in action
movies, Cruise has suffered quite a number of injuries. One of such dangerous episodes
happened on the set of Mission Impossible - Fallout.
The stunt shows Tom jumping from building to building, he comes up short and his leg
crashes against the building. Cruise gets a broken ankle, but he finishes the shot like
the pro he is.
Jacob Elordi Last but not least, the young Australian actor
who got quite an unexpected injury when he was filming a scene in HBO's Euphoria. It
is hardly possible to forget the series finale when Elordi's character Nate gets into a physical
fight with his dad. Nate ends up having a total meltdown and starts banging his head
on the wooden floor. It turned out that Elordi actually suffered a bad concussion while filming
this emotional scene..
He told Entertainment Weekly: "So Eric f—ing smashed me. I was bleeding.
I got a concussion. I ended up throwing up after work. I ended up throwing up after work.
It was gnarly. It was really, really gnarly, but it came at the end of my shooting period.
I was just wrapping the show around that time. So it was almost like this massive letting
go of everything over the eight months that we filmed."
So, that's all for today! It is time for you to re-watch your favorite movies, knowing
all this bran new information!