I’d be pretty pissed if footage of me almost drowning was used in a movie.
The take was used because it was the only one that looked so real, Elwes said.
“Chris [Guest] swung the heavy sword down toward my head.
However, as fate would have it, it landed just a touch harder than either of us anticipated.
And that, folks, was the last thing I remember from that day’s shoot,” Elwesrevealed.
He then recovers with an ironic bravado.
The second fall the more serious one wasnotscripted.
However, it made the scene even funnier, and it was kept in.
3.While filmingThe Passion of Christ,Jim Caviezelwashit by a cross that weighed over 250 pounds.
“And it was actually in the film.
You see blood streaming out of my mouth.”
This was not in the script Hannah’sslipwas an accident.
However, it added to her character’s desperation and was kept in.
5.Jake Gyllenhaalwas always meant to hit the mirror inNightcrawler,butit wasn’tsupposed to break.
The scene was left in as-is.
“When we took the mirror down, there was a hole in the wall.
And he actually cut himself, and you see his blood in that scene.
This was somebody uncorking something that it’s possible for you to’t make up.
It’s inside you somewhere or it’s not.”
It remained in the final cut.
At first, director Quentin Tarantinowasunsure whether he wanted to use the moment in the movie.
He was saved by costar Matthew Rhys, who said he was genuinely afraid Cooper might die.
The improvised scene made it into the final film.
“He then hit me with an almighty uppercut.
I was told that Dolph had punched my rib cage into my chest, compressing my heart.
If it had swollen any more, I would have died.”
Stallone was in the ICUfornine days.
11.Stallone similarly ended up majorly injured after another fight became a little too real.
I’m not joking.
I haven’t told anyone this, but I had to have a very serious operation afterwards.
I now have a metal plate in my neck."
Izzo grabbed a rock and fought against the current as she screamed.
They thought she was acting until they realized she was shouting in English and Spanish.
The footage ended up in the film.
She got away, but not before the lion sliced her shoulder with his paw.
When one almost pecked her eye, shebroke downand had to spend a week in bed due to exhaustion.
This is the footage you see in the film.
“I landed on my back and [director William Friedkin] said, ‘Cut, take two.’
“And Billy said, ‘well it has to look real.’
And so he said, ‘ok, don’t pull her so hard.’
Instead of cutting when she was hurt, Brustyn says Friedkindirectedthe cinematographer to focus on her.
The take ended up in the film.
Friedkin said, “Theres certain things you cannot act, like that sort of hurt.”
His scream of anguish, followed by his fall to his knees, was real.
17.Malcolm McDowellwastemporarily blinded after shooting the scene where his eyes are held open inA Clockwork Orange.
“The lid locks kept sliding off my eyelids and scratching my cornea,” herevealed.
But Stanley was mainly concerned about when he would be able to get his next shot.”
He actually went temporarily blind as a result.
He then had to do itagainfor the close-ups.
This is all seen in the final footage.
18.Sean Beanalmosthad his skull crushed while filmingSharpe’s Regiment.
“A horse landed on my head,” he revealed.
“They actually used that take.
The bank collapsed, and the horse’s hoof sort of sprung off my head as he was jumping.
I got a bit of a black eye and a bit of a neck problem.”
19.Finally, we’ll end on a funny one.
“Everyone, including Melissa and me, was thinking that my nose was broken,” he revealed.
“All I could think of was, ‘Nobody break.
Because I only want to do this once.'”
He joked, “I knew where I ranked.”
