ACTORS AND ACTRESSES THAT ALMOST DIED WHILE FILMING
Added on: 22nd Apr 2016
AARON PAUL
Aaron Paul dodged serious injury or even death during filming of the
first season of Breaking Bad when a boulder that was positioned
on top of the RV and holding down a tarp was blown off by a
strong gust of wind along with the tarp onto the exact spot
where Paul was standing moments earlier. The only reason he
wasn’t severely injured or killed was because he had asked the
director if he could try an alternative take from a different spot.
JOHN ABRAHAM
In 2012, John Abraham, an Indian actor and model, escaped death
while filming a gunfire scene. His co-star Anil Kapoor, who played
a cop in the film, shot a blank (minus the metallic lead) that
was meant to be shot from a minimum distance of fifteen feet,
from a distance of only 1.5 feet. The shot burst into flames
as planned, but due to the close range, hit Abraham with a
greater intensity (almost ten times) than it was supposed to.
However, thanks to Kapoor’s bad aim, Abraham did not get hit in
the middle of his neck; the bullet simply grazed the left side of it.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Leonardo DiCaprio got a little too aggressive during the filming of
Django Unchained to the point where he almost killed himself.
In the scene where he bangs on the table, he slammed it so hard
that he put his hand through the glass. DiCaprio needed medical
attention in order to stop the bleeding but before that he
demanded they finish the scene.
MARGARET HAMILTON
Margaret Hamilton was nearly burned to death on the set of
The Wizard of Oz. The actress was sent to the hospital after being
severely burned from an explosion that misfired. The intention was
to have Hamilton vanish in a giant puff of smoke, but her
trapdoor misfired, almost killing her.
DIANE KRUGER
Quentin Tarantino didn’t want to put Diane Kruger in any more
danger than necessary for her choking scene in Inglorious
Basterds, so he did the very real strangling himself. Ironically, he
didn’t yell cut in time and the beautiful actress ended up
unconscious and nearly died of asphyxiation.
HALLE BERRY
In 2012 Halle Berry was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles after
an accident she had on the set of The Hive. It is believed Halle hit
her head very hard on some concrete after taking a nasty fall
while shooting a scene for the movie. She was rushed to
Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA shortly after the accident, where she
spent a couple of nights so that her doctors could make sure
she was out of danger.
JAIMIE ALEXANDER
Rising star Jaimie Alexander’s career was almost cut short on the
set of Thor: The Dark World when she had a nasty fall down some
wet stairs in the rain. The beautiful actress slipped a disk,
chipped eleven vertebrae, and dislocated her shoulder but
luckily avoided a fatal injury.
UMA THURMAN
During the filming of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The
Lightning Thief someone from the crew forgot to put the parking
brake on in a van that almost ran Uma Thurman down. Fortunately,
former 007 Pierce Brosnan was on the scene and jumped into
the moving vehicle and hit the brakes in time to save the
actress from a possible deadly crash.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
Joseph Gordon-Levitt got a “premium rush” doing his own stunts
for the bike-messenger action movie. But crashing into a NYC taxi
nearly put the brakes on the actor’s body permanently.
Thank God he ended up with only thirty-one stitches.
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