Whereas filming, actors typically discover themselves in uncommon conditions, reminiscent of performing a stunt or sporting an advanced costume. Generally, these circumstances result in unintended accidents, and oftentimes, manufacturing has to determine how one can work an actor’s harm into the present.
Listed here are 17 actors who bought injured whereas filming widespread TV exhibits:
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Whereas filming the Associates episode “The One The place No One’s Prepared,” Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder.
He advised Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, “I did a number of episodes in a sling. They usually wrote it into the present as Joey was leaping on the mattress.”
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Whereas performing a stunt for the second episode of The Veil, Elisabeth Moss fractured a vertebra. In 2024, she advised Selection, “The [scene] you see within the present is definitely the second time we shot it, about six weeks later. The primary time we shot it, I hit a wall the mistaken manner, let’s simply say, and ended up mendacity on the roof for a pair hours.”
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas did her personal stunts for Quantico, which led to a small accident in 2017. On Dwell with Kelly, she mentioned, “I hit my head on the bumper of a automotive after which on the ground.”
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Within the It is At all times Sunny in Philadelphia Season 11 finale, Danny DeVito almost drowned filming an underwater scene. His costar Charlie Day advised Conan, “We virtually killed him this 12 months. We virtually drowned him.”
Charlie mentioned that, after Danny was rescued, he “went straight house.”
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In 2009, Legislation & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay advised RedBook, “On October 16 [2008], I used to be doing a stunt chasing a foul man. I might all the time insisted on doing the stunts my very own manner, though I do not really feel so strongly about that anymore. I jumped and landed on pads, however on the second take one thing occurred — I simply landed mistaken. I bought up and felt that one thing inside was not fairly proper. At first I assumed I had the wind knocked out of me. I used to be indignant with myself. Later, I assumed perhaps I might pulled a muscle, however I did not deal with the harm and saved anticipating it to get higher.”
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In 2019, Ronda Rousey had a “freak accident” whereas filming 9-1-1. On Instagram, she mentioned, “First take of the day a ship door fell on my hand, I assumed I simply jammed my fingers so I completed the take earlier than wanting (I do know it sounds loopy, however I’m used to stay audiences and by no means displaying ache until I’m speculated to).”
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When Michelle Williams appeared on The Masked Singer, a particular impact malfunctioned throughout rehearsals. She bought electrocuted, which break up considered one of her boots open.
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In 2012, Kristin Chenoweth was severely injured on the set of The Good Spouse. A decade later, in an essay for the e book My Second: 106 Girls on Combating for Themselves, she wrote, “As I stood on my mark, awaiting the subsequent shot, a chunk of lighting gear crashed down on prime of me and knocked me again right into a curb. I used to be rushed by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. My accidents had been extreme. My ribs had been cracked. My nostril and a few of my enamel had been damaged, and I had a cranium fracture. And people had been simply the accidents that really confirmed up on X-rays; by no means thoughts the nerve, tissue, and muscle harm I’d must face within the weeks, months, and years that adopted.”
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Throughout the Riverdale Season 1 finale scene the place Archie saves Cheryl from drowning in a frozen river, KJ Apa broke his hand. He advised TVLine, “That was a gnarly day of taking pictures, I’ll let you know that a lot. I wasn’t actually punching the ice, however I bought just a little bit too excited. I used to be punching a foam mat … [that was] sitting on the ice. … It was chilly, so I didn’t actually really feel it. It wasn’t till 20 minutes after that I noticed I broke my hand.”
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Whereas filming Cowboy Bebop in 2019, John Cho tore his ACL, which led to a months-long manufacturing shutdown. In 2021, he advised Vulture, “It was actual wonky. We had been taking pictures all night time, and I used to be doing type of an athletic transfer because the solar was arising. It was in all probability a scarcity of sleep. Just a bit transfer and [I was down]. In order that was a low second. It was 5:30 Saturday morning once I arrived on the emergency room, and it was full of individuals who had gotten tremendous drunk on Friday night time after which bought in a combat or fell and cracked their heads open. Paradoxically, a sobering expertise.”
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In a 2013 Reddit AMA about Breaking Dangerous, Aaron Paul mentioned, “Raymond Cruz, who performed Tuco, gave me a concussion in the course of the episode ‘Grilled,’ the place Tuco takes Walt and Jesse to his shack in the course of nowhere the place we meet the well-known [Hector Salamanca]. Tuco takes Jesse, and he throws him by way of the display door exterior, and when you watch it again, you may discover that my head will get caught contained in the wood display door, and it flips me round and lands me on my abdomen, and the door splinters into 1,000,000 items. Raymond simply thought I used to be appearing, so he continued and kicked me within the facet and picked me up over his shoulder and threw me in opposition to the home, however in actuality, I used to be just about unconscious the [entire] time.”
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Jared Padalecki broke his wrist whereas filming Supernatural Season 2, Episode 3, “Bloodlust.” Throughout a fan Q&A, he defined, “There was a scene the place I get hit on the again of the pinnacle with a phone. And I stroll right into a motel room, and I stroll this manner, and I sense one thing behind me. And so I flip, and there is a vampire, and I punch the vampire, however one other one has come up behind me with a phone and smacks me on the again of the pinnacle. So, as I fell, they’re holding the digital camera there, and I fell, and I acted like I used to be handed out. On the final second, I kinda put my hand out to the facet to catch myself…as a result of the stuntman I had simply ‘knocked out’ was there in entrance of me. So I put my hand out to catch myself, however the angle was incorrect, and so I snapped my wrist bone.”
His harm was written into the present. Sequence creator Eric Kripke advised TV Information, “We’re making it work. Fortunately, he will get in fights each episode so it’s straightforward for him to interrupt his hand. It seems the zombie breaks his hand.”
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And after Peter Calapdi took over the position of the Physician on Physician Who, he bought the very same knee harm as Matt Smith whereas performing stunts.
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Whereas filming Sport of Thrones Season 7, Episode 6, Rory McCann broken his knees. He advised the Sydney Morning Herald, “I had this man on my shoulder for days and days – it did not work with a dummy, so I needed to carry an actual man, and we needed to run and run.”
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And eventually, throughout 11 seasons of The Strolling Useless, Norman Reedus was harm quite a few occasions, together with whiplash, a number of black eyes, a brow harm requiring stitches, accidents to his knee and shoulder, and a concussion that briefly shut down manufacturing.
