Top 20 Actors Who Almost Died On Set

you don't have any air supply of your own they're going to drag you 200 feet across the bottom of this tank while you're acting welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 actors who almost died on set i just knew that if i wanted to live it was my choice if i wanted to die that was my choice too for this list we're looking at the actors that nearly lost their lives to their roles and the stunts mistakes and mishaps that nearly paved the way we've excluded brave stunt doubles as they've gone into the profession knowing what they signed up for what onset near-death story did you find most shocking let us know in the comments number 20. dylan o'brien maze runner the death cure you can't save everyone thomas i could try a post-apocalyptic world doesn't make for a safe work environment apparently in march of 2016 it was reported that actor dylan o'brien had been struck by a car while on set working on the death cure resulting in multiple injuries the exact nature of the injuries were not initially revealed to the public but he was rushed to the hospital oh he got his bell wrong he got his bell wrong i would imagine many who witnessed it thought that was it the production was initially put on hold for a little under two months before being extended indefinitely it was close to a full calendar year before shooting resumed it turns out that dylan had suffered a facial fracture concussion and brain trauma as well as other injuries you know it was a really personal and scary thing to go through number 19. jackie chan armor of god jackie chan is well known for performing his own stunts in this particular one the stunt resulted in him falling over 16 feet from a tree [Music] for armor of god while attempting to jump from a wall toward a branch chan landed hard and in the process his skull collided with a rock this pushed bone into his brain which required surgery to remove everyone's favorite martial artist still has a hole in his head though it's been filled with a plastic plug luckily chan seemingly escaped the incident without lasting brain damage more on his stunt work later number 18. isla fisher now you see me okay [Applause] remember when escapologist and magician henley reeves pretends to be stuck in a tank of water as piranhas pour in a tank full of flesh-eating piranhas will fall from above a lady has to have handcuffs right girl well it turns out pretending to be stuck and being stuck looked very similar during the filming of this now you see me scene actress isla fisher banged on the glass to tell the cast and crew she was stuck but since that's what her character was supposed to do no one thought much of it thankfully she managed to free herself in time practical effects shouldn't need to be this real what happened to movie magic [Applause] number 17 viggo mortensen the lord of the rings the two towers depending on who you asked mortensen came close to dying in middle earth twice viggo almost drowned doing one of his own stunts which is well established aragorn was supposed to be doing a dead man's float down the river but the speed of the current coupled with the weight of his costume made for real danger so in any case i didn't float to exactly the same spot they had and i hit this spot where the current hit this rocket went straight down morton's sin was pulled under water and nearly stayed there but it's also been reported that a scene where aragorn deflects the urukai's throwing knife was actually a mistake and the deflection was actually self-preservation planned or accidental viggo's clearly got some survival skills i guess i must eventually kicked against the wall or the rock and got just out of where this current was pushing down came out of it and it was really scary number 16 kate winslet titanic few things are scarier than a near drowning incident can you imagine having to run from a giant wave during the titanic scene in question kate winslet caught her coat on a gate and got pulled underwater james cameron continues to dismiss the idea that she was in any real danger claiming they only let her think she was going to drown he also claims to know what he's talking about because he's almost drowned on many occasions let's put this incident aside for a second and ask ourselves why does james cameron keep nearly drowning oh god number 15 ed harris the abyss your depth is 3 200 feet you're doing fine james cameron consistently pushes the boundaries of visual effects but when it comes to water scenes he prefers the old-fashioned way titanic wasn't the first time cameron reportedly almost led a cast member to a watery grave just ask ed harris for one particularly elaborate scene in the abyss harris was dragged without oxygen many feet underwater when he ran out of air harris called to cut but due to complications he wasn't given oxygen until he was on the edge of passing out according to the actor the traumatic episode caused him to weep that night rumor has it he also punched cameron in the face you don't have any air supply of your own they're going to drag you 200 feet across the bottom of this tank while you're acting number 14 jamie alexander thor the dark world and blind spot this safe actress got defeated by the most humble of foes in the second thor flick a flight of stairs you might want to take the stairs to the left after tripping over in heels jamie alexander chipped 11 vertebrae knocked out her left shoulder slipped a spinal disc and tore a rhomboid don't worry though she was largely healed and back to filming within a month good let's go however we couldn't finish this entry without mentioning the injury she sustained on the american crime drama blind spot during a today appearance the actress needed to consult her smartphone to remember the multitude of injuries she sustained on set herniated discs t3t4t89 broken nose dislocated right shoulder broken right index finger broken left foot left two toes three times the only conclusion you can make is she's a real life asgardian warrior number 13 sylvester stallone rocky iv [Applause] by the time stallone was filming the first expendables movie he was already in his 60s but he was still doing many of his own stunts and fight scenes this resulted in an inadvertent neck fracture for the italian stallion courtesy of stone cold steve austin look at me you piece of trash it wasn't his first onset injury of course while filming rocky iv stallone once asked his mountain of a costar to punch him as hard as he could his co-star dolph lundgren obliged and sent stallone to the hospital with a swollen heart without medical attention it's very likely stallone would have died from the [Applause] punch number 12 michael j fox back to the future part three the back to the future series isn't known for its realism the time traveling car and flying skateboards made sure of that yet one scene of the trilogy was all too real for lead michael j fox in the series final installment marty mcfly is captured by bandits and hung with a noose until the dock rescues him [Music] if mcfly's squirming looks genuine it's because the actor really was being hung he even passed out for half a minute before he was saved luckily director robert zemeckis caught on in time that in the words of michael j fox he wasn't that good of an actor but it's good to see you marty number 11 kevin cosner water world water world is widely considered to be one of the greatest cinematic failures in the history of the industry from production through to the box office everything that could go wrong did for one scene kevin kosner was strapped to the mast of his character's boat 40 feet in the air when a storm picked up conditions proved too difficult to get kosner down safely and he was left there to be assaulted by the storm for 30 minutes the hawaiian set was regularly hammered by brutal weather but unable to shield himself from this particular storm kosner claims it nearly cost him his life number 10 halle berry various films this academy award-winning actress has had more than her fair share of onset accidents while filming die another day a stunt involving a helicopter resulted in barry getting shrapnel in her eye which had to be medically removed on the set of gothica robert downey jr accidentally broke her arm while shooting a confrontational scene [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and on two occasions berries actually suffered head trauma while shooting catwoman lighting equipment hit her over the head and in 2012 she hit her head on a concrete floor during a fight scene for the call thankfully neither proved serious number nine johnny depp the lone ranger the lone ranger already had to suffer being panned by audiences and critics but imagine how much hate it would have received if it had been the cause of johnny depp's demise i am tonto of the comanche last of the windigo hunters during one horseback riding scene depp's saddle slipped johnny held onto the horse's mane before letting go and falling in front of the horse luckily the horse's hooves just missed his head meaning he received only minor wounds from the fall but i cannot decide whether this horse is stupid or pretending to be stupid obviously depp survived and the only thing the film did any permanent damage to was his career number eight eli wallach the good the bad and the ugly i get dressed i kill him be right back wallach has had his fair share of accidents but they all happen during a single film while shooting sergio leone's masterpiece eli nearly bit the dust a whopping three times in one instance he had to be rushed to the hospital after someone left a bottle of acid next to his prop bottle of soda which he drank another time a bound wallock was put at risk when the horse he was mounted to was spooked and ran off for a mile and then there was the incident where he was nearly decapitated by the heavy iron steps of a speeding train remarkably he survived dying at age 98 in 2014 number seven jason statham the expendables 3 you'd feel pretty safe hanging out with the terminator rambo and terry crews wouldn't you i think we should get this over with in fact when these guys are together the biggest fear might be that the continent they're on could run out of protein this guy's got more muscle than a cartel king maybe he's overcompensating for something yet jason statham did nearly die doing a stunt for the expendables iii while driving a truck the brakes gave out and the actor drove off a cliff into the black sea the transporter's driving may have let him down but fortunately his expert level diving skills helped him escape the wreckage and swim to shore number six aaron paul breaking bad did you know that jesse pinkman was supposed to be killed off in the first season of breaking bad i'm your partner man you should have told me the idea was ditched early on because you know jesse's awesome badass from what i hear but the writers may never have had the chance to save jessie if aaron paul wasn't a perfectionist in episode six of the first season paul asked to change the position where he was standing this was very lucky because a boulder fell down off the roof of an rv and landed exactly where aaron had been standing during the filming of the scene mr white it's too risky okay i mean we're making money why can't you just be satisfied with the way it is jesus number five martin sheen apocalypse now an infamously troubled shoot the cast and crew of the critically acclaimed film have said that much like marlon brando's colonel kurtz many involved in the production kind of lost their minds those involved partied very very hard getting lost in the jungle atmosphere and losing themselves in their roles martin sheen who was already hitting the bottle began to lean even more heavily into alcohol throughout the high stress shoot ultimately his body responded in the form of a heart attack and nervous breakdown he survived but the entire experience would continue to haunt him for years that if i wanted to live it was my choice if i wanted to die that was my choice too number four tom hanks castaway tragedy nearly struck when actor and generally nice bloke tom hanks cut himself on the set of this adventure drama while only a minor cut it quickly became infected when he finally went to the hospital a doctor told him the cut could poison his blood so hanks was kept in the hospital we live and we die by time don't we this incident set filming back three weeks but hank's fully recovered and we're certainly glad he didn't die who would have broken the news to wilson again number three jim caviezel the passion of the christ home shooting in the countryside outside of rome the cast and crew of the passion of the christ continued to work through some less than favorable weather conditions while recreating the sermon on the mount jim caviezel was literally struck by lightning he walked away unscathed but he clearly got off lucky roughly 24 000 people die from lightning each year although very few of them are actors assistant director jan michellini who was standing beside kviesel also got struck although for him it was the second time in production think somebody was trying to tell them something number two tom cruise the last samurai the last samurai is about as close to two hours of pure sword porn as a film can get combine this with the fact that tom cruise likes to do his own stunts and it seems like he was bound to get hurt on its set in one scene cruz and his japanese co-star were seated on mechanical horses these two horses were hurtled towards each other and his fellow actors soared miss cruz's neck by an inch thanks to his martial arts skills angerman does what he can still that was relatively tame another fight scene featuring four attackers apparently had 70 instances in which crews could have been wounded i should have died so many times before before we unveil our number one pick here are a few honorable mentions charlize theron eon flux [Music] margaret hamilton the wizard of oz joseph gordon-levitt premium rush brandon frazier the mummy matthew fox lost before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll 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 jackie chan police story [Music] this action legend has put life and limb on the line enough times to earn his stunt work top 10 lists of its own of course with that sort of commitment comes serious risk one of chan's scariest on-set moments came while filming police story which he wrote and directed himself the 1985 film included a scene where he had to slide down a 70-foot pole surrounded by string lights for his trouble he received second-degree burns a dislocated pelvis and two damaged vertebrae in his spine chan not only survived but also went on to film countless 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Length: 18min 49sec (1129 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 07 2020