ACTORS AND ACTRESSES THAT ALMOST DIED WHILE FILMING

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.