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Acting in movies looks like a fancy job. However, it’s a pretty challenging task. Performing action scenes and stunts can often result in fatal injuries if miscalculated. Take a look at 15 movies where some on-set accident almost killed their stars and directors.
1Call it a miracle that Idris Elba is alive after he took that fall on the set ofBeasts of No Nation.Elba was leaning against a tree above a very high waterfall and somehow lost his footing. He was lucky he landed on a ridge above the waterfall and didn’t fall off the cliff
2While filming a fight on the set ofLove Lucy, Lucille Ball once almost got beaten to death. Her fight sequence was being filmed with actress Teresa Tirelli who apparently got really into it.
3Halle Berry nearly choked herself when she had to seduce Pierce Brosnan with a fig while filmingDie Another Day.It was Brosnan’s quick instinct that saved her.
4Harrison Ford could have been killed by, of all things, the Millennium Falcon. He injured his ankle and leg by a door on the Millennium Falcon set- but, if things were slightly different, the door could’ve crushed him.
5Jackie Chan got 2nd-degree burns on thePolice Storyset. Chan had to slide down a pole that had gotten very hot, if wouldn’t have let go, he might’ve died instead of just burning his hands,
6Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O ended up in the hospital on the second day of filmingThe Jackass 4.They jumped on a running treadmill while wearing tubas.
7Filming the desert island dramaCast Awaygave Tom Hanks a really tough time. He got a really bad infection on his leg that he had treated in the nick of time. According to sources, if Tom had shown up to the ER an hour late, it might have been a big problem.
8Director Guillermo del Toro nearly died when he was hit by a car while directing onThe Shape of Water. Michael Shannon had parked the old car which kept going straight at del Toro. Luckily, it stopped in time.
9Super Mario Bros. had Bob Hoskins nearly killed nearly on two separate occasions on the set of the critically panned movie.“I got stabbed four times. Electrocuted. Broke a finger. Nearly got drowned.” said Hoskins
10Michael J Fox nearly got literally strangled by a noose inBack to the Future III. They hung him so tightly that, after he’d been swinging for a few seconds, Robert Zemeckis realized that Michael was genuinely passing out and not just acting.
11Meryl Streep had a near-death experience while filmingInto the Woods. She was shooting for this one scene where she had to jump up onto a table placed on an inclined platform. Meryl lost balance and tumbled but Emily Blunt caught her.
12Johnny Depp saw death right in the face while filmingThe Lone Ranger.He was apparently close to being crushed by a horse in the desert where the shoots were taking place. The horse that lost control sprinted right over right his body.
13Danny DeVito panicked while filming an underwater scene and nearly drowned on theIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiaset. For the scene, DeVito had to be put a little deep down in the water where he had a hard time getting back to the surface.
14Emily Blunt crashed a car on theEdge of Tomorrowset, nearly killingTom Cruise. Tom was in the passenger seat and told her to hit the brakes, but she didn’t listen. Tom laughed off the entire situation as he escaped uninjured.
15Jodie Comer nearly choked on particularly dry pasta inKilling Eve. It’s maybe the least glamorous way to accidentally die, but the pasta was so dry, she couldn’t swallow it and it almost killed her,
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Muneer is an Indian writer at FandomWire who plans to visit all countries in this world to eat the food on their streets. Obsessed with joggers, he sings and plays the strings too.
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