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THESPIANS THAT ALMOST DIED WHILE FILMING

Added on: 26th Jun 2016

 

MERYL STREEP

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The world almost lost the greatest actress of our age during

the shooting of 1994’s The River Wild. The decorated actress

lost her balance during a scene and fell overboard into the

icy water. Luckily Kevin Bacon was less than six degrees away

because he pulled her to safety before things got worse.

 

 

JOHNNY DEPP

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Johnny Depp was nearly killed when a stunt went wrong while he

was filming The Lone Ranger. Actually, there’s footage online

of the scary moment in which Depp, who plays Tonto, is

thrown off his horse and trampled on the ground.

 

 

JENNIFER LAWRENCE

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Not many know that there was a near-shocking tragedy on the

set of The Hunger Games. To be more specific, during the

shooting of the scene where Jennifer Lawrence is running

through a tunnel, a fog machine malfunction occurred and

filled the entire area with smoke to the point that the actress

couldn’t breathe and narrowly escaped suffocation.

 

 

KATE WINSLET

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James Cameron’s epic Titanic is an amazing retelling of the real

tragedy. What you don’t know, however, is that another real-life

disaster almost happened behind the scenes. Kate Winslet

suffered major bouts of pneumonia and influenza due to

vigorous filming conditions. The actress also described a number

of occasions on which she nearly drowned, including the iconic

scenes in which she and Leonardo DiCaprio are trapped on the

ship’s lower level. Thankfully, the actress survived to see

the blockbuster hit the big screen.

 

 

CHARLIZE THERON

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The beautiful South African actress almost died when she injured

herself on the set of Æon Flux. She broke her neck while

performing a backflip. She was hospitalized for the injury and

shooting was postponed for eight weeks.

 

 

MICHAEL J. FOX

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The decorated actor almost died on the set of Back to the

Future Part III when a stunt went wrong. The actor misplaced

his hands during a hanging scene, and he ended up really

hanging by a noose. He passed out before someone

noticed he wasn’t acting.

 

 

MATTHEW FOX

 

Matthew Fox

Terry O’Quinn stabbed Matthew Fox with a real knife rather than

a retractable one while shooting a scene for an episode of Lost.

In the prep session for the scene, it was decided the

collapsible knife looked too fake, and that they would film the

stabbing up to the penetration moment with an actual dull knife

before swapping. Initially they couldn’t find a protective vest

that looked real, and it took a stunt coordinator’s insistence

to get them to let Fox wear one, as even collapsible knives hurt.

Unfortunately, the knives ended up being swapped, and O’Quinn

stabbed his co-star with the real one, which was only stopped

by the protective vest that he almost didn’t wear.

 

 

GERARD BUTLER

Gerard Butler

Gerard Butler came close to losing his life while filming the surfing

drama Chasing Mavericks in 2011 and even shared footage

of the incident on Good Morning America. The footage clearly

showed him paddling on his board about to catch a wave

before he “wiped out.” A huge wave could be seen crashing

over Butler’s head, leaving him trapped beneath the

water for almost a minute.

 


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