The show must go on: injuries of actors on the set included in the films

Everyone knows the legendary phrase "the show must go on." An ordinary cut, bruise or even a broken arm — the show should still go on. Injuries during the filming process are common for all its participants. Sometimes it is really difficult to predict exactly where the danger lies in wait for an actor — a dangerous trick or, maybe, a dress will be unsafe.

1. Fred Astaire — "Following the Fleet"

The legendary Fred Astaire was injured... what would you think? A dress. In the 1939 musical "Following the Fleet", the characters of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers performed a three-minute dance composition. Rogers was wearing a chic beaded dress with flared sleeves. Completely covered with beads, it was quite heavy. While Aster was circling in the Rogers dance, his partner hit him with her sleeve during the rotation. The blow landed on the jaw, and slightly grazed the eye. Astaire spent the rest of the dance carefully trying to avoid those killer sleeves. By the way, the director was not happy with the take, so another 20 were made. And later, ironically, the one with the slap sleeve was recognized as the best.

2. Channing Tatum — "Fox Hunter"

American popular actor and model Channing Tatum suffered a head injury in the acclaimed film "Fox Hunter". In the bathroom scene where Tatum punches the mirror with his head, the actor punched not only him, but also the wall on which this mirror was hanging. The take turned out to be so impressive that it was included in the film.

3. Viggo Mortensen — "The Lord of the Rings. Two towers"

After four takes in a row of the scene where Viggo Mortensen kicks a helmet into the camera, on the fifth take the actor broke two toes. The film's director Peter Jackson recalls this scene as follows: "Kicking the helmet with his foot, Viggo let out such a scream! I thought, that's cool! After filming, Viggo did not say what happened on the set, we found out later that two fingers were broken. You know, there's always a medic on duty at the playground in case of injuries, they usually shout: "Stop! But Viggo, feeling the pain, managed to weave it into the general outline of the scene. It was the best take. He entered the film." The film turned out to be rich in injuries not only for Mortensen, Orlando Bloom broke his ribs in the same film.

4. Jake Gyllenhaal — "Stringer"

Jake Gyllenhaal in one of his last films "Stringer" was injured in a scene with a mirror. The actor even had to be hospitalized. "The mirror broke right in my hands," Gyllenhaal recalls. "It cracked and cut my hand badly." Despite the severe cut, Jake continued to play. The film shows Gyllenhaal's character hiding his cut hand behind a mirror.

5. Leonardo DiCaprio — "Django Unchained" The famous scene with the skull from the movie "Django Unchained" amazed everyone with Leonardo DiCaprio's game.

The impressive take included in the film was not easy for the actor.

Producer Stacy Sher describes the episode as follows: "If you remember, in this scene Leo hits the table hard with his hand, during the takes he broke a nearby glass with one of these blows. I remember how the blood was flowing down my arm, and Leo continued to speak a monologue, remaining in the image. It was just amazing. Then the wound had to be sewn up, by the way." In the scene itself, you can see how DiCaprio takes out the glass fragments that got into his hand.

6. Brad Pitt — "Seven" In the scene with the chase in the night rain, Pitt tore the tendons in his hand.

The injury sustained by Brad Pitt was so severe that even adjustments to the script were required.

7. Halle Berry — "Gothic"

During the struggle between the heroes of Robert Downey Jr. and Halle Berry in the psychological thriller "Gothic", Downey Jr., not calculating the strength, broke the arm of the main character. Berry recalls the scene like this: "He twisted my arm, and we literally heard it crack." Filming had to be suspended for two months until the actress' hand healed.

8. Margaret Hamilton — "The Wizard of Oz" is nothing less, and third-degree facial burns were received by actress Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the movie "The Wizard of Oz".

Such a serious injury occurred due to a faulty secret hatch in the pyrotechnic scene with the disappearance of the witch. "The face was more or less in order. Saved by makeup. But here's my hand. Due to the fact that the nerve endings on the arm were exposed, makeup became impossible. Instead, I had to wear green gloves," the actress recalls. Despite the fact that Hamilton's recovery took more than six weeks, director Victor Fleming is sure that that take was the most successful.

9. Nicole Kidman — "Moulin Rouge"

I remember that critics were partial to Nicole Kidman's dance scenes in the movie "Moulin Rouge". In her defense, the actress said that dancing with a broken rib and torn cartilage is generally difficult. And it's even harder to dance well. The reason for this was Ewan McGregor, who dropped his partner during the dance. "Ewen dropped me and I broke a rib. It has already started to heal, and we thought if I put on a corset, it will somehow stabilize the rib and it will be better. It turned out the opposite: the corset pressed even more. I remember standing there and thinking: "Damn, it looks like I broke it a second time," Kidman recalls. In addition, a large number of scenes with Kidman had to be filmed sitting down to hide a medical brace on her leg.