6. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV
Most would agree that the fight scenes in this movie were great, and one reason for that is that the actors really were hitting each other. For the final punch that knocks down Stallone, the lead actor asked Lundgren to hit him as hard as possible, according to The Guardian. He got what he asked for and it led to him taking a trip to the hospital because his heart swelled. He was in intensive care for eight days.
7. Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs Of New York
In this period film, the notorious method actor would only dress in clothes that fit 1863. Unfortunately, this led to Daniel Day-Lewis getting pneumonia. The actor tried to muscle through it since there was no treatment for the illness back in that time period. However, when told that he would die if he didn’t do something about his condition, he finally caved in.
8. Jason Statham in Expendables 3
The action star is no stranger to dangerous scenes, but this one went too far. While filming Expendables 3, Statham was driving a truck when the brakes failed, costar Sylvester Stallone told The Mirror. This forced Statham to jump out of the truck as it careened into the sea. Otherwise he would have gone with it 60 feet below the surface of the water.
9. Jaimie Alexander in Thor: The Dark World
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Rain and metal stairs just don’t mix. This beautiful actress took a tough fall while filming. “It was raining, it was dark outside, it was like five in the morning — and I went down a metal staircase and slipped. It took me out of filming for a month,” Alexander told The New York Post. She had displaced a disc in her spin, chipped 11 vertebrae, dislocated her left shoulder, and tore her left side’s rhomboid.
10. Halle Berry in The Call
This movie might not be known for being full of action, but filming wasn’t dull. According to Daily Mail, The actress was filming a fighting scene when she fell and hit her head on the concrete floor. She was knocked out and the set closed down for the day. She was rushed to the hospital, but fortunately they didn’t find any lasting injuries.
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