Top 20 Actor Injuries You ACTUALLY See in the Movie

there's a reason that looked so real welcome to watchmojo.com set accidents that were intentionally left in the film what you see is what you get even if you weren't supposed to number 20 Tom Cruise Mission Impossible fall out at this point we're starting to think that Tom Cruise has been replaced with a stunt performing robot he's in human fallout the sixth installment in the mission impossible franchise contains a shot in which cruises Ethan Hunt jumps between two buildings hunt slams into the second building pulls himself up with a clear grimace of pain and slowly hobbles off-screen it's a great realistic detail and that's because Tom Cruise was actually in a lot of pain so he jumps that speed that momentum here we go crews performed the stunts himself and broke his ankle upon impact with the building rather than calling for a cut crews pulled himself up and finished the scene seven weeks and eighty million dollars later he was back at work good as new here is why here's why Tom Cruise gets paid the big bucks okay number 19 Fred Astaire follow the fleet injuries and dancing go together like peanut butter and jelly don't be funny follow the fleet was the fifth collaboration between iconic dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and one of the movie's musical numbers required Rogers to wear a beaded gown during the very first take of the long shot a stair was smacked across the face with a sleeve of heavy beads leaving him quote somewhat maimed his words not ours he continued the rest of the dance in a daze and asked for another take believing that his injury had affected his performance and while more takes were eventually performed it was the first that ended up in the movie beaded sleeve slaps and all [Music] number 18 jake gyllenhaal nightcrawler good morning everyone thanks for joining us I'm Pat Harvey Jake Gyllenhaal committed to the role of Lou bloom a criminal turned crime scene videographer bloom is not quite right mentally and it shows when his frustrations finally come to a head in this scene he's lost out on an important story to a competitor and he's clearly stressed and angry he takes that anger out on his bathroom mirror screaming at it shaking it and eventually slamming it shut breaking it if the scene looks a bit too real that's because Gyllenhaal got really into it and smashed the mirror by accident slicing through his thumb in the process it's gross oh I do want to see it yeah cuz I know it just yeah oh that's quite a how many stitches did you get he apparently needed upwards of 40 stitches but the shot of the mirror breaking was left in the final version of Nightcrawler number 17 Ellen Burstyn The Exorcist in one of the most famous scenes of The Exorcist a possessed Reagan assaults her mother Chris and slaps her across the room resulting in Chris screaming in distress it wasn't acting that's the scream of a back injury that's caused a lifelong pain to film the sequence a stuntman was needed to forcefully pull actress Ellen Burstyn onto her back using a wire Billy said to him okay don't pull her so hard but as I turned away I felt them exchange a look first and told director William Friedkin that the stuntman was pulling too hard and that she feared for her safety but Friedkin didn't listen on the next take Burstyn injured her back and screamed in pain which is the take you see in the movie the injury wasn't debilitating but it did leave Burstyn with a lifetime of back discomfort because I couldn't stand that he was willing to just get a quick shot of it before they called the ambulance you know number 16 Diane Kruger inglourious basterds in a tale of Nazi killing bastards things are bound to get dangerous even for the actors involved German movie star bridget von hammersmark played by Diane Kruger is actually a spy for the good guys something that doesn't go over too well with Christoph Waltz's Nazi Colonel Hans Landa what's that American expression if the shoe fits you must wear it when the Jew hunter confirms his theory he lunges at miss von hammersmark and chokes the life right out of her it seems like Krueger's acting here is on point but the truth is she actually can't breathe [Applause] because of the scenes importance the danger involved and the fact that he had a very specific vision in mind Quentin Tarantino himself strangled Kruger with his hands used in the close-ups that's Tobi's number 15 Harrison Ford the fugitive Harrison Ford is one of those actors who doesn't let a mere limp hold him down you find this tank you find this man and if that means his character walks with a limp throughout the movie and his character walks with a limp throughout the movie [Music] while filming a scene in the woods fort or some of the ligaments in his leg while this should be cause for surgery recovery and significant filming delays Ford simply soldier through and refused to treat his injury [Music] and owing to the fact that Ford was filming with torn ligaments his character dr. Richard Kimble can be seen limping throughout much of the movie he's clearly taking the phrase walk it off to Hart number 14 Jim Caviezel The Passion of the Christ playing Jesus Christ and Mel Gibson's biblical opus sounds like the role of a lifetime and that role went to Jim Caviezel unfortunately Caviezel went through absolute torture while filming the movie he suffered migraines from his swollen eye makeup incurred a lung infection and pneumonia dislocated his shoulder while carrying the 150 pound cross and was even struck by lightning while filming the Sermon on the Mount sequence during the lashing scene Caviezel was accidentally whipped across the back on two separate occasions a pain he described as quote so horrific that you can't get air suppose that's one way to get a great reaction shot a national number thirteen daryl hannah Bladerunner forgot your bag she may be playing an Android but daryl hannah is still very much a human a fact she proved on the set of Blade Runner Hanna plays basic pleasure model pris and in one scene she encounters genetic designer jf Sebastian in a rainy alleyway she's surprised and scared so she bolts but as she's running away she slips and breaks a car window this was in fact not scripted Hannah actually slipped on the wet pavement and her arm actually went through a real glass window but she managed to stay in character for the rest of the scene that's even more impressive when you find out she chipped her elbow in eight places number 12 Michael J Fox Back to the Future Part 3 Michael J Fox came a little too close to feeling like a condemned outlaw when Marty McFly arrives in 1885 he is pretty much immediately hanged by Mad Dog Tannen while most of the wide shots were performed by a stuntman we do get a brief shot of fox clearly struggling for breath that's because he was Fox had offered to film the sequence without a box to make it look more realistic unfortunately he mishandled the noose and ended up actually hanging himself the crew believed he was giving the performance of his career when in actuality he was just dying in front of everyone Fox ended up passing out in the news and that's when director Robert Zemeckis realized he wasn't acting but it's good to see you Marty number 11 Martin Sheen Apocalypse Now each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter to introduce us to Captain Benjamin Willard Martin Sheen shambles around his Saigon hotel room drunk as a skunk Sheen decided to go very method with this one which is a fancy way of saying he was actually drunk when they filmed this scene that's probably why he thought it would be a good idea for him to punch a mirror of course as this list proves it's hard to break a mirror and not cut yourself and Sheen indeed did slice open his hand in the process but he kept going rolling over his bed and smearing his blood all over the sheets and his face and ultimately ending the scene bloody drunk naked and sobbing number 10 Sean Bean patriot games the climax of Patriot game sees Harrison Ford's Jack and Sean beans Shawn fighting on a speedboat while filming the sequence Ford was instructed to mime pushing a boat hook up into beans face either afford pushed a little too hard or beam was a little too close because the boat hug actually slammed into beans face and knocked him backwards the accident left bean with several stitches and a distinctive scar over his left eye at least gives a cool story to tell people when they ask who else can say they've been hit with a boat hook by Harrison Ford it was rage pure rage number 9 James Franco pineapple Express one of James Franco's most popular roles is that of Saul silver in the stoner comedy pineapple Express in one of the movies funnier sequences Saul thinks he sees something in the woods causing him and Dale to run away in abject terror while running Dale trips and falls onto a rock while Saul runs headlong into a tree Franco did the stunts himself and hid a safety pad that had been screwed onto the trunk ironically the screw head was shutting out of the safety pad and Franco ran straight into it fun fact the gray headband that Saul wears throughout the movie was used to hide Franco's stitches number 8 Channing Tatum Foxcatcher best of three marker get it back when he was playing Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz Channing Tatum tried to be as authentic as possible and in this case that meant destroying a mirror with his face by this point in the film Schultz is feeling the mental strain after losing an important match he paces around his hotel room hitting himself angrily and crying the most intense moment comes when he stands in front of a mirror and proceeds to smash it with his head three times shattering it and cutting his forehead though he was actually bleeding and came within inches of hitting a stud in the wall Tatum finished the scene beautifully and he claims not to remember filming this at all number seven Steve Carell the 40 year old virgin see that whole Teen Wolf thing you got going right there just need to wax that right out this chest waxing sequence is now iconic and part of the magic stems from its realism wanting the scene to look as true to life not to mention as funny as possible Steve Carell decided to bite the bullet and actually get his chest waxed his clear hesitancy and screams of pain are all real as is Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen's laughing by the end of the waxing handi has tears in his eyes and blood spots adorning his chest that is not makeup nor a great bit of acting from Corelli Clarkson those are very real tears and very real blood spots we think karela for putting his body and comfort on the line just for our comedic enjoyment number six Sylvester Stallone rocky for this is widely considered to be the goofiest movie in the rocky franchise but it has an amazing final fight between rocky and Ivan Drago to make the fight appear more authentic and brutal Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to punch him for real he took three straight takes of the powerful body shots before he felt a burning sensation in his chest stolen proceeded to ignore the discomfort until his blood pressure shot up to 260 and he had trouble breathing he was subsequently flown to a hospital and spent time in the ICU where he learned that his heart had slammed against his breastbone and begun to swell number 5 Cary Elwes the Princess Bride did it that's terrible The Princess Bride is a fantastical fairy tale filled with swashbuckling pirates six-fingered men and of course princesses at one point princess Buttercup and her true love Wesley are confronted by the dastardly Prince Humperdinck and count Rugen and Cary Ellis's Wesley is ultimately captured to make sure their new prisoner is compliant Christopher guest's rügen also known as the six-fingered man hits him in the head with the butt of a sword and knocks him out you have six fingers on your right hand someone was looking for you according to Ellis there were no rubber swords on hand and they couldn't get a good take by faking it so guests actually hit him and actually knocked him out Elway's woke up later in the hospital wondering what the heck it happened the scene that you see in the movie is in fact me being knocked out for real believe me number 4 Jackie Chan police story police story contains one of the most insane Jackie Chan stunts and that is certainly saying something it involves Qian jumping onto a metal pole sliding down through a series of lights and crashing through a glass ceiling onto a display below [Applause] [Music] Shan was actually very hesitant to perform the stunt and was ecstatic following its successful completion but once the immediate adrenaline wore off Chan realized the skin on his palms had been peeled away the power I don't know where the power come from then I turn around I see six hundred extra and I just to the I hit myself bruised I get the hot prop lights had significantly heated the metal pole resulting in second degree burns to Chan's hands all things considered we think he got off very lucky number three Sylvester Stallone first blood in movie badass John Rambo's first outing our titular protagonist played by Sylvester Stallone is being pursued by the abusive hope Washington Police Department the chase eventually leads to a clip where Rambo is hanging on for dear life about to be shot at by a cop in a helicopter with no other options Rambo takes a blind leap tumbles through the trees and lands on a tree branch being the professional action star he is Stallone performed this stunt himself however things didn't quite go as planned the painful scream you hear when he lands is not acting when all was said and done sly walked away with a cracked rib but an amazing stunt performance [Music] number two Leonardo DiCaprio Django Unchained I don't think Ulis here's another Tarantino movie but this time the director didn't personally injure a star in Django Unchained Leonardo DiCaprio plays a psychotic slave owner who's hosting a dinner for Django played by Jamie Foxx and dr. Shultz played by Christoph Waltz during the meal DiCaprio's character unnervingly reveals his knowledge of Django's plan to free his wife and as you can imagine this makes him mighty angry so angry in fact that DiCaprio slams his hand on the table breaking a glass and slicing his skin in the process pretty soon the audience can see that DiCaprio's hand is completely covered in blood but like a true thespian he gives an amazing performance and uses his injury to his advantage and if you all want to leave Candyland with broom-hilda the price is $12,000 I remember when the trailer for Mission Impossible fallout came out and they were publicizing that Tom Cruise had broken his foot during that rooftop jump and it was in the trailer and I cringed so hard when I watched it and that's only number 20 so you can imagine how intense our number-one entry is and believe me it is so let's look at the honorable mentions and then we'll see the top actor injury you actually see in the movie an extra gets hit down low The Last Samurai a stormtrooper hits his head Star Wars Episode four a new hope Johnny Russo cracks two ribs and an elbow the godfather George Clooney smacks his head Syriana Ben Affleck twists his ankle Dazed and Confused before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one viggo mortensen the Lord of the Rings the two towers in the second Lord of the Rings film Viggo Mortensen returns as Aragorn with a performance as powerful emotional and raw as that in the Fellowship of the Ring one of his most visceral scenes comes at the beginning of the film angry at the thought that his hobbit friends might be dead a rage filled Aragorn kicks a helmet on the ground after doing four takes of this shot Viggo broke two toes on his fifth take meaning that scream heard in the finished film is very real even so Viggo kept working and director Peter Jackson said he didn't even realize his star was injured until much later he just thought Viggo had given it his all each take he kind of got closer and closer to the camera the fourth take I thought was really good I thought well it's pretty close and then I thought oh look he's got bitter each time if I just give him one more take I'd bit it's gonna look great do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music]

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Length: 20min 56sec (1256 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020