Random Stunts That Went Wrong And Still Made Final Cut (14 items)

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  (#1) Mission: Impossible - Fallout

  • Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirby, Sian Brooke, Angela Bassett

  Tom Cruise became notorious for doing his own stunts in films like the Mission: Impossible series - including the epic HALO jump in Mission: Impossible - Fallout - so it probably comes as no surprise that he's hurt himself a time or two. In fact, while filming a comparatively simple stunt in Fallout, in which he leaps from one rooftop to another during a foot chase, Cruise actually broke his ankle against the side of the building.

  The stunt went exactly as planned, with one exception. Cruise was supposed to hit the wall and pull himself up, but his foot jammed against it instead. "I knew instantly my ankle was broken and I really didn’t want to do it again so just got up and carried on with the take," Cruise said.

  In the film, he pulls himself up from the wall and keeps running with only a limp to give away the broken ankle.
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  (#2) Django Unchained

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Jonah Hill, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Bruce Dern, Amber Tamblyn, Walton Goggins, Franco Nero, James Remar, Tom Wopat, Tom Savini, Robert Carradine, Zoe Bell, Michael Parks, Russ Tamblyn, Nichole Galicia, James Russo, Michael Bowen, M. C. Gainey, Lee Horsley, Gary Grubbs, Rex Linn, John Jarratt, Don Stroud, J.D. Evermore, Elton LeBlanc, Edrick Browne, Ato Essandoh, Ritchie Montgomery, John McConnell, Ned Bellamy, James Parks, Michael Bacall, Dennis Christopher, Laura Cayouette, Jarrod Bunch, Evan Parke, Lewis Smith, Todd Allen, Jamal Duff, Dane Rhodes, Jake Garber, Cooper Huckabee, Kim Collins, Erin Pickett, Omar J. Dorsey, Christopher Shane Berry, Louise Stratten, Mark Ulano, Edward J. Clare, Sammi Rotibi, Kim Robillard, Doc Duhame, Ted Neeley, David Steen, Jon Thomas, Brian Brown, Victoria Thomas, Johnny Otto, Kimberley Drummond, Glen Warner, Matthew Parrott, Keith Jefferson, Chuck Murphy, Gregory Allen Gabroy, Misty Upham, William Hudson, Escalante Lundy, Deborah Ayorinde, Kesha Bullard, Kasey James, Skipper Landry, Justin Hall, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Shana Stein, Belinda Owino, Jordon Michael Corbin, Jack Lucarelli, LaTeace Towns-Cuellar, Richie J. Ladner, Dana Michelle Gourrier, Amari Cheatom, Sharon Pierre-Louis, Timothy Pickles, Kinetic 9, Catherine Lambert, Ashley Toman, Jakel Marshall, Ross P. Cook, Danièle Watts, Takara Clark, Craig Stark, Carl Bailey, Sandra Linz, Tristan Tierce, David Coennen, Kay Smith, Shannon Hazlett, Kel Owens, Mike DeMille, Lil Chuuuch, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Nicholas Dashnaw, Carl Singleton, Tenaj L. Jackson, Marcus Henderson, Monica Rene'e Anderson, Kerry Sims, Miriam F. Glover, Ronan Hice, Keniaryn Mitchell, Sonny Clary, Cindy Mah, Grace Collins

  In one of the most intense scenes in Quentin Tarantino's revisionist western, Django Unchained, the malevolent Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) slams his hand down on a table to emphasize a point, shattering a crystal cordial glass in the process. Candie doesn't even pause, however, and proceeds to pick shards of glass out of his hand with an unsettling calm.

  Candie slapping the table was in the script, but he wasn't supposed to hurt his hand. DiCaprio accidentally broke the glass while filming, but he didn't break character and the scenes of him picking shards from his palm and wiping it on actor Kerry Washington are improvised. Tarantino is not one to shy away from a little extreme method acting and he kept the moment in the final cut.
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  (#3) Back to the Future Part II

  • Clint Eastwood, Michael J. Fox, Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, Elijah Wood, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Billy Zane, Flea, Joe Flaherty, Thomas F. Wilson, Tracy Dali, Charles Fleischer, Gian Maria Volonté, James Tolkan, Mary Ellen Trainor, Neil Ross, George Buck Flower, Casey Siemaszko, Jason Scott Lee, John Erwin, Donald Fullilove, Darlene Vogel, Jim Ishida, Al White, Jeffrey Weissman, J. J. Cohen, Ricky Dean Logan, Wesley Mann, Harry Waters, Jr., Tommy Thomas, Stephanie Williams, Jay Koch, Tamara Carrera, Sean Michael Fish, Judy Ovitz, Lloyd Tolbert, Freddie, Irina Cashen, Angela Greenblatt, Justin Mosley Spink, Shaun Hunter, E. Casanova Evans, Nikki Birdsong, Granville 'Danny' Young, Junior Fann, Charles Gherardi, Marty Levy, Jennifer Brown, David Harold Brown, John Thornton, Theo Schwartz, Lindsey Whitney Barry, Cameron Moore, Lisa Freeman, Annette May

  One of the most beloved scenes in Back to the Future Part II came with a heavy price. When Biff (Thomas F. Wilson) and his crew chase Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) on hoverboards, several of them burst through the windows of the clock tower.

  The stunt was supposed to be relatively straightforward - the performers would swing on wires to generate momentum, then smash through the candy glass windows while a member of the effects team released their wires and dropped them safely onto airbags concealed inside the tower - but it was unexpectedly difficult.

  One stunt performer walked away because of how dangerous the scene became, and she was replaced by relative newcomer (and women's kickboxing champion) Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon. While filming the stunt, Wheeler-Dixon didn't go through the glass like she was supposed to. Instead, she hit a pillar and was outside when a crew member cut her wire, causing her to plummet twenty feet onto concrete. 

  Gary Morgan, another member of the stunt team, recalled the incident later, "I got up and Cheryl was laying on the concrete and the pool of blood by her head was getting bigger." The accident required Wheeler to undergo reconstructive surgery, including having metal plates implanted in her face. It also led to her suing the studio.

  The scene, complete with Wheeler-Dixon crashing into the pillar, made it into the film.
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  (#4) The Wizard of Oz

  • Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Pinto Colvig, Rolfe Sedan, Ken Darby, Billy Curtis, Adriana Caselotti, Meinhardt Raabe, Jerry Maren, Jack Haley, Billy Bletcher, Charley Grapewin, Elly Annie Schneider, Clara Blandick, Candy Candido, Ruth Duccini, Mitchell Lewis, Margaret Pellegrini, Harry Wilson, Oliver Smith, Charles Irwin, Tyler Brooke, Lois January, Buster Brodie, Mickey Carroll, nm0467071, Ethelreda Leopold, Pat Walshe, Robert St. Angelo, Eleanor Keaton, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Abe Dinovitch, Tommy Cottonaro, Daisy Earles, Dona Massin, Harry Earles, Charles Becker, Bud Linn, Terry, Olga C. Nardone, Lee Murray, Elvida Rizzo, Lorraine Bridges, Helen Seamon, Jackie Gerlich, Paul Dale, Sig Frohlich, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, George Noisom, Ambrose Schindler, George Ministeri, Fern Formica, August Clarence Swenson, Amelia Batchelor, Jack Paul, Gracie Doll, Nita Krebs, Harry Cogg, Parnell St. Aubin, Dorothy Barrett, Yvonne Moray, Phil Harron, Sid Dawson, Ralph Sudam, Freddie Retter, Jimmy the raven, Johnny Winters

  While filming the original Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton, who plays the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, received serious burns on her face and right hand that put her out of commission for six weeks. She even had to wear a green glove for a few scenes because her skin was too sensitive for makeup.

  The accident happened during the Witch's dramatic early disappearance, in which she vanishes from Munchkinland in a cloud of smoke and pyrotechnics. Hamilton was supposed to exit the scene through an ingeniously placed trap door, but the door malfunctioned and she ended up face-to-face with the flames.

  When she finally healed enough to return, director Victor Fleming assured her that, "we have the film on your disappearance, and it was a great shot."
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  (#5) Patriot Games

  • Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Sean Bean, Richard Harris, Thora Birch, Anne Archer, Polly Walker, Patrick Bergin, Bob Gunton, Ted Raimi, Alun Armstrong, James Fox, Brenda James, Alex Norton, David Threlfall, Pip Torrens, Gerald Sim, J. E. Freeman, Ellen Geer, Claire Oberman, Hugh Fraser, Hugh Ross, Gary Rodriguez, Sacha Bennett, Tim Dutton, John Lafayette, Berlinda Tolbert, Keith Campbell, Kim Delgado, Tom Watt, Peter Weireter, P. H. Moriarty, Ruben Garfias, Allison Barron, Shaun Duke, Jesse D. Goins, Jonathan Ryan, Andrew Connolly, Markus Alexander, Karl Hayden, Jeff Gardner, Bret Culpepper, Fred Toma, Martin Cochrane, Michael Francis Kelly, Roger Blake, Philip Levien, John Shepard, Fritz Sperberg, Lucia Noyce, Debora Weston, Stephen Held, Jeff Mandon, Ivan Kane, Leah Tabassi, Oliver Stone, Franklin Dam, Gregory Paul Jackson, Bonnie Webster, Thomas Russell, Frankie Maldonatti, Eric Paul, Lester T. Tillery, Rebecca Mayhook, Michael Ryan Way, Pamela Saxon

  Sean Bean is known to meet his demise often in film and on TV. Bean's performance as the villain opposite Harrison Ford in 1992's Patriot Games is what boosted his career and made him recognizable. During the climactic scene of Patriot Games, in which Bean's and Ford's characters tussle on a runaway speedboat, Ford actually hit Bean in the face with a boat hook. Bean was harmed by the impact and the gash he received appears in the final film.

  It also left him with a distinctive scar. Bean, who often plays rugged characters and villains, didn't mind the scar. He told a reporter, "It's in the right place."
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  (#6) Blade Runner

  • Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Morgan Paull, Monty Pyke, Kevin Thompson, John Edward Allen

  Daryl Hannah's breakout role came when she played Pris, the "basic pleasure model" replicant in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Hannah was not the studio's first choice for the role, but she certainly committed to her part. In the scene where Pris runs away from J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), Hannah slipped on the wet pavement and accidentally smashed her elbow through the window of a van, chipping the bone in eight places.

  Hannah kept going, however, and the shot is in the final cut of the film. She says that she still has a scar on her elbow from the stitches.
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  (#7) Rumble in the Bronx

  • Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Chan Man Ching, Ailen Sit, Fred Andrucci, Morgan Lam

  Jackie Chan is famous for performing his own stunts, and he has hurt himself numerous times as a result. One of his most dramatic failed stunts caught on camera and used in the final cut happened during the filming of Rumble in the Bronx.

  Chan broke his ankle while shooting a scene in which he jumps from a bridge onto a hovercraft. In an interview with Conan O'Brien, Chan recalled the moment and said, "I hear a very clear sound from my leg - crack!"

  Not one to be deterred by an injury, however, Chan not only made sure they got that shot, but he filmed the rest of the movie with a "special cover" over his cast painted to look like a sneaker. 
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  (#8) The Hangover Part II

  • Mike Tyson, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Chung, Paul Giamatti, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Todd Phillips, Andrew Howard, Bryan Callen, Nick Cassavetes, Gillian Vigman, Yasmin Lee, Brody Stevens, Kim Lee, Sasha Barrese, Michael Bennett, Channon Roe, Penpak Sirikul, Tanner Maguire, Michael Berry Jr., Sondra Currie, Nirut Sirijanya, Lex de Groot, Jamie Noel, Ami Haruna, Vithaya Pansringarm, Olivia Jackson, Aedin Mincks, Bruce Blain, Crystal The Monkey, Jessica Lee, William A. Johnson, Dylan Boyack, Chanicha Shindejanichakul, Desmond O'Neill, Frédéric North, Scott Moran, William Jiang, Emma Wetzel, Mason Lee, Danai Thiengdham, Jetsada Yuktabutra, Thana Srisuke, Palakorn Gunjina, Palakorn Chaiklang, Iran Daniel, Rattana Janprasit, Kaweewit Chaikaew, Pongsatorn Sawadchatchawan, Christina Ebert, Schnitrnunt Busarakamwong, Karen Jean Wu, Virginia Lalata, Sanita Jai-Ua, Pairot Noiply, Aroon Seeboonruang, Claire Kim, Mika Santoh

  During the high-speed car chase through the streets of Bangkok in The Hangover Part II, Stu (Ed Helms) hangs his head out of the car window. It should have been a simple stunt, but the driver didn't swerve in time and Helms' stunt double, Scott McLean, collided with a truck. McLean, who also performed in The Matrix and two Star Wars prequels, ended up with a serious brain injury. 

  The accident put McLean into a coma for several weeks and doctors were doubtful that he would ever walk or talk again. He did eventually regain the ability to walk and talk, but the damage he sustained left him permanently disabled and prematurely ended his stunt career.

  The shots leading up to the accident not only made it into the final cut, but they were actually included in the trailer, which frustrated McLean's family.
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  (#9) Apocalypse Now

  • Marlon Brando, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Scott Glenn, Colleen Camp, Cynthia Wood, Bill Graham, Frederic Forrest, G. D. Spradlin, Sam Bottoms, Roman Coppola, James Keane, Vittorio Storaro, Albert Hall, Christian Marquand, Tom Mason, Aurore Clément, Jim Gaines, Marc Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Evan A. Lottman, Jerry Ziesmer, Jack Thibeau, Damien Leake, Kerry Rossall, Jerry Ross, Franck Villard, Henry Strzalkowski, Nick Nicholson, Glenn Walken, Herb Rice, Linda Carpenter, Don Gordon Bell, George Cantero, Linn Phillips, Bo Byers, Ron McQueen, David Olivier, Pierre Segui, William Upton, Larry Carney, Dick White, Gilbert Renkens, Chrystel Le Pelletier, Robert Julian, Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley, Henri Sadardeil, Hattie James, Father Elias, Daniel Kiewit, Michel Pitton, Yvon LeSeaux

  Director Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now has behind-the-scenes extravagances so famous that they gave rise to their own documentary film, Hearts of Darkness. The documentary revealed that the scene in which Martin Sheen's Captain Willard falls apart in a Saigon hotel room was mostly ad-libbed. 

  It was Sheen's 36th birthday, and he was, by his own admission, so intoxicated that he "couldn't hardly stand up." Catching a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror, Sheen - as Willard - smashes the glass, cutting his hand and smearing it over his face. Everything about that moment was genuine. 

  "Francis said his impulse was to cut the scene and call the nurse," Coppola's wife later wrote in her memoir Notes on a Life, "but Marty was doing the scene."
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  (#10) The Exorcist

  • Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb, William Peter Blatty, Jason Miller, Mercedes McCambridge, Jack MacGowran, Barton Heyman, Peter Masterson, Titos Vandis, Donna Mitchell, William O'Malley, Eileen Dietz, Kitty Winn, Robert Symonds, Robert Gerringer, Mason Curry, Arthur Storch, Rudolf Schündler, John Mahon, Roy Cooper, Mary Boylan, Dick Callinan, Toni Darnay, Ron Faber, Wallace Rooney, Vasiliki Maliaros, Bernard Eismann, Joanne Dusseau, Gina Petrushka, Vincent Russell, Thomas Bermingham, Paul Bateson, Elinore Blair, John Nicola, Yvonne Jones, Don LaBonte, Beatrice Hunter

  Filming a movie like The Exorcist is bound to be intense. Sets were cooled to sub-zero temperatures, actors were jerked around on wires, and the nozzle for the infamous throw-up scene misfired, spraying actor Jason Miller in the face - a moment that stayed in the film.

  Although being sprayed in the face with pea soup is no fun, it's nothing compared to what happened to Ellen Burstyn, who played the mother of Linda Blair's possessed Regan MacNeil. In one scene, Regan slams her mother onto the floor. Burstyn was connected to a wire and someone off-set was supposed to pull her to the ground. 

  "I know it has to look real, but I'm telling you, I could get hurt," Burstyn told Huffington Post, recalling the incident. She ended up permanently injuring her spine as the wire worker "smashed [her] into the floor." 
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  (#11) First Blood

  • Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Mulkey, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Alf Humphreys, Michael Talbott, John McLiam, Charles A. Tamburro, Patrick Stack, Stephen Chang, David L. Crowley, David Petersen, Craig Huston

  In a franchise that is somewhat synonymous with visceral action, it may come as no surprise that a few accidents occurred during the filming of the various Rambo movies. While filming the first installment in the series, Sylvester Stallone actually broke a rib when he elected to perform his own stunts for part of a scene where John Rambo leaps from a cliff and uses tree branches to break his fall.

  He was taken to the hospital in a limo, but because the scene was filmed early in the schedule, he had to perform most of the rest of the movie with a broken rib. And because of the outfits his character wears, he couldn't even tape it up to increase his comfort. "It was pretty easy to act out the pain," Stallone said on a DVD commentary track.

  Two takes of the fall were filmed, and the one in which Stallone broke his rib is the one that made it into the final version. The director wanted a third take, but after breaking a rib, Stallone demurred.
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  (#12) Die Hard

  • Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Robert Davi, Kym Malin, Terri Lynn Doss, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Al Leong, Hart Bochner, Paul Gleason, Alexander Godunov, Mary Ellen Trainor, Rick Ducommun, James Shigeta, Grand L. Bush, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Andreas Wisniewski, Clarence Gilyard, Rebecca Broussard, Wilhelm von Homburg, Tracy Reiner, Selma Archerd, Charlie Picerni, George Christy, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Bob Jennings, De'voreaux White, Dennis Hayden, Betty Carvalho, Fred Lerner, David Ursin, Diana James, Carmine Zozzora, Matt Landers, Kip Waldo, Robert Lesser, Anthony Peck, Gary Roberts, Bill Marcus, Taylor Fry, P. Randall Bowers, David Katz, Bill Margolin, Stella Hall, Hans Buhringer, Dustyn Taylor, Rick Cicetti, Joey Plewa, Mark Goldstein, Gérard Bonn, Richard Parker, Gary Pinkston, Michele Laybourn, Shanna Higgins, Shelley Pogoda, Kate Finlayson, Mark Winn, Jon E. Greene, Cheryl Baker, Bruno Doyon, Bruce P. Schultz, Scot Bennett, Noah Land, Rick Bross

  John McClane (Bruce Willis) goes through a lot of trials in Die Hard, but one memorable scene wasn't actually in the script. When McClane is trying to get down the ventilation shaft, the stuntman was supposed to make it to the first ledge safely. Instead, he miscalculated and fell.

  Fortunately, no one was hurt, and editor Frank Urioste (who also worked on the original RoboCop) managed to cut the film so that the fall was included, switching to a shot of Willis grabbing the edge of the next shaft with his fingertips.
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  (#13) Syriana

  • George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Viola Davis, Mark Strong, Matt LeBlanc, William Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Cooper, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher McDonald, Alexander Siddig, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Blake Nelson, Thomas McCarthy, Peter Gerety, Robert Foxworth, Max Minghella, Amr Waked, Jamey Sheridan, Kayvan Novak, David Clennon, Roger Yuan, Anna George, Jayne Atkinson, Richard Lintern, Nicky Henson, Nadim Sawalha, Will McCormack, Donna Mitchell, Ozzie Yue, Luke Barnett, David Michie, Akhbar Kurtha, Jocelyn Quivrin, Don Whatley, Michael Allinson, Kirk Lambert, Mohamed Majd, Michael Stone Forrest, Driss Roukhe, Sally Spaide, Alexander von Roon, Nicholas Art, Daisy Tormé, Bruce Allen Dawson, Paul Fahrenkopf, Steven Hinkle, Mazhar Munir, Charles McClelland, Saïd Amadis, Susan Allenback, Robert Baer, Katie Foster, Tootsie Duvall, Shahid Ahmed, Matt Cannon, Kerry Meushaw, Omar Mostafa, Katherine Hoskins Mackey, Sonnell Dadral, Tyler Gatton, William Charles Mitchell, Alan Gates, Wendy Kush, Tom Cutler, Ryan Murphy, Badria Timimi, Jon Lee Anderson, Randall Boffman, Bashar Atiyat, Johnny Pitrelli, Linda E. Williams, William L. Thomas, Lauren Minite, James Plannette, Mitesh Soni, Ahmed Ayoub, El Mahjoub Raji, Nabeel Noman, Atta Mohammed Saleh, Othman Bin Hendi, Bob Fajkowski, Ali Al Amine, Bikram Singh Bhamra, Jeff Baker, Tarik Tamzali, David J. Manners, Mohammed Asad Khan, Aziz Zacca, Tony French, Ahmed Aa Mohammed, Jamil Jabbar, Fritz Michel

  In Syriana, George Clooney plays a CIA operative who is taped to a chair and harshly questioned when he is captured. The scene is grueling, but it shouldn't have been dangerous for the actor; that is until he fell and hit his head. 

  "I thought I'd had a stroke," Clooney said, describing the accident. "It was like a train horn going off in your head and you can't see and you can't stand."

  Clooney knew that it was serious, and was flown from Morocco where the film was shooting to LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Actor Lisa Kudrow directed Clooney to her brother, who is a neurologist. He discovered fluid "was leaking from [Clooney's] spine and he had torn his dura, the outermost layer enveloping the spinal cord." A complex surgery was able to repair the damage, but Clooney later told Rolling Stone he actually considered taking his own life due to the extreme pain.

  The fall made it into the film, for which Clooney won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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  (#14) The Passion of the Christ

  • Monica Bellucci, Jim Caviezel, Claudia Gerini, Rosalinda Celentano, Francesco Cabras, Sergio Rubini, Ted Rusoff, Hristo Shopov, Maia Morgenstern, Jarreth J. Merz, Francesco De Rosa, Mattia Sbragia, Toni Bertorelli, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Hristo Zhivkov, Luca Lionello, Sabrina Impacciatore, Francesco De Vito, Federico Pacifici, Abel Jafri, Giuseppe Lo Console, Lucio Allocca, Matt Patresi, Giacinto Ferro, Romuald Andrzej Klos, Dario D'Ambrosi, Aleksander Mincer, Davide Marotta, Paco Reconti, Pietro Sarubbi, Fabio Sartor, Luciano Federico, Angelo Di Loreta, Luca De Dominicis, Michelle Bonev, Lino Salemme, Valerio Isidori, Roberto Bestazzoni, Tom Shaker, Lucia Stara, Giovanni Capalbo, Emilio De Marchi, Nuot Arquint, Evelina Meghangi, Ornella Giusto, Roberto Santi, Andrea Refuto, Valerio Esposito, Paolo Dos Santos, Chokri Ben Zagden, Vincenzo Monti, Francesco Gabriele, Daniela Poti, Danilo Di Ruzza, Adel Ben Ayed, Emanuele Gullotto, Ivan Gaudiano, Nicola Tagarelli, Arianna Vitolo, Antonello Iacovone, Rossella Longo, Franco Costanzo, Abraam Fontana, Lello Giulivo, Luciano Dragone, Gabriella Barbuti, Francis Dokyi, Danilo Maria Valli, Adel Bakri, Omar Capalbo, Noemi Marotta, Roberto Visconti, Sheila Mokhtari, Maurizio Di Carmine

  Playing Jesus in a notoriously grisly film about the final hours of his life is inherently not pleasant, but for Jim Caviezel, it was particularly difficult. The actor endured plenty of hardships on set, including hours in makeup to recreate various wounds. By his own account, he was also struck by lightning in the Sermon on the Mount scene.

  During the scourging scene of Mel Gibson's divisive religious epic, Caviezel was actually whipped twice by accident. He ended up with a 14-inch gash on his back. "It just extended over the board and hit me with such a velocity that I couldn't breathe," Caviezel told Today. "It's like getting the wind knocked out of you."

  While the blows may have been accidental, Gibson kept them in the film.

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