“Hollywood film sets can be a dangerous place, and the latest star to learn this the hard way is Tom Holland .”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
But Hollywood film sets can be a dangerous place, and the latest star to learn this the hard way is Tom Holland.
The British actor, 29, was reportedly rushed to hospital after a stunt went horribly wrong while filming at Leavesden Studios in Watford.
Filming of the £150million Marvel movie, which is the star’s fourth Spider-Man film, was suspended when the actor cracked his head after suffering a fall and was treated for a concussion.
Production is now believed to be on hold for several weeks while Tom recovers, with the actor’s dad Dominic confirming that his son would be away from filming ‘for a while’.
Other actors including Sylvester Stallone and Daniel Craig have been rushed to hospital after stunts went wrong.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester nearly died during the making of sports drama Rocky IV.
The actor recalled how doctors feared that he would be ‘talking to angels’ after he was badly injured by Dolph Lundgren – who played Rocky’s nemesis Ivan Drago in the 1985 film – when a fight scene went badly wrong.
Sly, who portrays Rocky Balboa in the sports drama series, had nuns praying for him in intensive care after Dolph ‘pulverized’ his heart with a punch.
He said: ‘In the first round, where he knocked me down, that is for real. He pulverized me and I did not feel it at that moment but later that night my heart started to swell.
‘He had bruised the perio cardio sac, which is when the heart hits the chest – like in a car accident when your chest hits the steering wheel.’
Stallone continued: ‘My blood pressure went up to 260. They thought I was going to be talking to angels.’
In a separate interview, Stallone said: ‘Dolph Lundgren put me in the hospital for nine days. I knew I was in trouble when I showed up and nuns met you at the ICU.’
He explained that he told Lundgren to forget the choreography, saying: ‘Just go out there and try to clock me. For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all.’
Dolph also weighed in on the accident, saying: ‘All I did was obey orders. He was the boss. I did what he told me. We came back to L.A. and the producer was like, ‘Hey Dolph, you’ve got two weeks off — Sly’s in the hospital.”
Isla FisherThings went wrong for Isla while filming a high-stakes movie stunt in the heist thriller Now You See Me.
The Australian actress was playing an escapologist, who performs a Houdini-style escape from a water-filled tank while handcuffed and shackled.
However – despite repeatedly practising the stunt – things went awry during filming, when her chains became stuck to the bottom of the tank.
She was also unable to reach a safety button, or ‘kill switch’, which would have expelled the thousands of gallons of water from the tank in 70 seconds.
As a convincing performer, her desperate struggles and cries for help were misinterpreted as acting, meaning the camera kept rolling for three minutes before a stunt coordinator finally realised she was in jeopardy and drained the tank.
Isla later laughed off the event, joking: ‘No one wants to go in a swimming costume.’
But she did admit she was ‘very scared’ and called it as ‘near-death experience.’
Brendan FraserBrendan said he ‘nearly’ died while shooting The Mummy.
When the 1999 blockbuster came up in conversation during an interview with Kelly Clarkson, she asked: ‘Is this the one that you almost died?’ to which The Whale star replied, ‘Nearly. Well, I was choked out accidentally.’
He then went on to describe the hanging scene that saw him yoked by a stuntman with rope.
‘I was standing on my toes like this, with the rope [around my neck], and you only got so far [you can move],’ he explained while standing to demonstrate.
Fraser, whose career has been rejuvenated with his most recent role, recounted, ‘And [director] Stephen [Sommers] ran over and he said, ‘Hey, it doesn’t really look like you’re choking — can you sell it?’
‘And I was like, ‘All right, fine.’ So I thought, ‘One more take, man.’ And the camera swooped around and I went up on the toes, and the guy holding the rope above me, he pulled it up a little higher and I was stuck on my toes — I had nowhere to go but down.
‘And so he was pulling up and I was going down,’ the performer told the host and audience.
‘And then the next thing I knew my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways, there was gravel in my teeth and everyone was really quiet,’ he continued.
Regaining consciousness, Brendan then heard the stunt coordinator say, ‘Congratulations, you’re in the club — the same thing happened to Mel Gibson on Braveheart.’
Fraser became animated when he explained how he responded by saying, ‘Thanks, I think?! I wanna go home!’
Hugh JackmanHugh has been playing Wolverine since the first X-Men film in 2000.
And on the set of the very first film, he damaged his ear in a collision with a camera, while a very intimate area of his anatomy got caught in a harness while filming a wire stunt.
To begin with nobody noticed. Hugh explained in an interview with Yahoo: ‘I screamed so much, and they kept going because they figured it was me primal-yell emoting.’
Michelle YeohMichelle is known for performing her own stunts for her films, and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was no different.
The actress played Yu Shu Lien, a warrior tasked with transporting a legendary sword.
While she was filming the first big action sequence, during which she chases a thief across a series of rooftops in the middle of the night, Yeoh tore her ACL and had to get surgery in the middle of production.
She explained: ‘If you watch the movie you see me walking slowly. That’s because I had a big brace under those baggy trousers. It took me three months to recover, to be ready for the last fight sequence.’
Daniel CraigDaniel had his share of on-set injuries filming various James Bond fight scenes, including one during his very first movie, Casino Royale.
While filming a fight scene in the Czech Republic with some stand-ins, Craig was clocked right in the face so hard he lost two of his front teeth.
Bleeding from the injury, he was rushed to the hospital, and then to a dentist in London who provided a brand new set of teeth just in time for Craig to return to set and resume filming – wearing a mouth guard for all future fight scenes.
Natalie PortmanNatalie was left in agony after she ‘dislocated a rib’ on the set of Black Swan – because producers couldn’t afford an on-site medic.
The actress, who plays a ballerina in the Darren Aronofsky film, spent up to eight hours a day in dance training to make her portrayal believable.
Natalie appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman after the film came out and revealed the sidesplitting pain she suffered after a lift went wrong.
She said: ‘I injured a rib, I like dislocated a rib, it sort of went under another one, when you get lifted it just sort of went under.’
But there was no one on set to tend to her injury – because the film’s budget didn’t stretch to include an on-call doctor.
She added: ‘It’s funny because when I got injured I called the producer, I was like “Could you get the medic? I need an ice pack or something right now,” and he was like, “Oh, we don’t have a medic because it’s super low budget.”
‘I have been working for like twenty years, I don’t even think that’s legal. I was like before you take away a medic, take away my trailer and the next day I didn’t have a trailer, I swear to God!’