THESPIANS THAT ALMOST DIED WHILE FILMING
Added on: 26th Jun 2016
MERYL STREEP
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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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