10 Actors Who Took the Phrase “Break A Leg” Too Literally and Got Hurt While Filming

1 – Margot Robbie worked very hard to prepare for her role in I, Tonya, and ended up with a herniated disk

She practiced ice skating for five hours a day, five times a week for the role. She experienced numerous bumps, bruises, and blisters, and ended up with a herniated disk in her neck. Her arms started going numb for a month due to the irritated disk, but the pain intensified when it was properly herniated.She described the experience as very painful.

2 – Barry Keoghan contracted a serious flesh-eating disease before shooting Banshees of Inisherin.

In a GQ interview in 2023, it was revealed that the gnarly scar on his arm was caused by necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria with a 20% risk of death. Barry Keoghan caught this disease right before filming and nearly had to undergo amputation. However, director Martin McDonagh mentioned that even though he might have been on strong medication, Barry seemed to brush it off.

3 – Isla Fisher almost drowned during the filming of Now You See Me. The crew initially thought it was part of the act.

During a stunt inspired by Houdini in a water-filled cube, the actor’s chains got twisted, preventing her from signaling for help. She had to gesture desperately to the cast for assistance, but they thought she was acting and continued filming. “They thought I was as good as Meryl Streep in the tank,” she laughed. “But I was actually drowning.”

4 – Gary Oldman smoked numerous cigars while portraying Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, leading to nicotine poisoning.

I ended up with severe nicotine poisoning. During filming, I would have a cigar that was mostly smoked, and as we did multiple takes, it would be replaced with a new one by the prop man. We repeated this process for 10 or 12 takes per scene,” he described.

5 – Acting as Steve Jobs in the film Jobs caused Ashton Kutcher to end up in the hospital twice.

The tech giant followed a strict fruit-only diet, known as a “fruitarian.” Ashton Kutcher adopted this diet for his role and it made him very ill. Mila Kunis mentioned, “He was so foolish. He only ate grapes at one point, which landed us in the hospital twice for pancreatitis! It was really silly

6 – Tom Hanks took his role seriously in Cast Away, which led to him developing a staph infection from a wound on his leg during filming.

[Filming Cast Away] landed me in the hospital. I spent three days there because something, surprisingly, could have been fatal,” he explained. “I got an infection from a wound, and it was spreading through my leg. I didn’t realize it; I just thought it was a sore. When I saw the doctor, they immediately said, ‘We need to admit you to the hospital to remove this infection before it spreads in your blood and causes serious harm.’

7 – Halle Berry worked on the movie Bruised alongside a real MMA fighter, who accidentally broke two of her ribs during a fight scene.

Halle Berry handled the situation calmly. She mentioned, “My fighting spirit kicked in, and I decided to push through the pain. I took some Advil and persevered,” as she shared with Sports Illustrated.

8 – During the filming of Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone believed that the most authentic way to end a scene was to instruct his co-star to skip the choreography and “just go out there and try to hit me.

Stallone suggested for a chaotic start to the fight to make it look real. As a result, he took an uppercut that hit his ribs and heart against his ribcage. This injury led him to spend nine days in the intensive care unit (ICU).

9 – Zac Efron took his TV show, Killing Zac Efron, too seriously and reportedly got what many think was typhoid fever while in Papua New Guinea.

Zac Efron was admitted to the hospital after getting a bacterial infection, suspected to be typhoid fever, during his time in Papua New Guinea. The 32-year-old actor was in the middle of filming his show “Killing Zac Efron” for the streaming service Quibi when he fell ill.

10 – Tom Cruise fractured his ankle while performing a stunt jump for Mission Impossible 6, and that scene made it into the final cut of the film.

Tom Cruise’s stunt mishap during the filming of ‘Mission: Impossible 6’ led to two broken bones and a production delay of up to four months, as per reports.

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