7 Actors Who Got Injured On-Set In The Dumbest Way Possible

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Jonah Hill Overdosed On Fake Cocaine During The Wolf Of Wall Street

Apologies if this ruins the movie magic for you, but since the amount of cocaine snorted in your average mobster movie would triple its budget, the drugs are usually fake. In the past, prop masters usually used powdered milk, but these days, it's mostly vitamin B or D powder, which is both easier on the vocal chords and presumably lower calorie -- it's hard to play a junkie if you're all milk-fattened. It even gives you a little energy boost, so acting is barely required. It's not without its drawbacks though, as Jonah Hill discovered on the set of The Wolf of Wall Street.

Paramount PicturesYou start talking way too fast about nutritional supplements, for one.

After "doing fake coke for, like, seven months, every day," Hill got a pretty bad case of bronchitis. As he explains it, "If you ingest any matter, that much matter, into your lungs, you will get very sick." It got so bad that he eventually had to be hospitalized, spending three weeks off the set, in what was effectively fake drug rehab.

Paramount PicturesWe could have used a three-week break about halfway through this movie too.

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They Had To Re-Write Se7en Because Brad Pitt Accidentally Smashed His Hand Through A Windshield

Let's say you're a competent and morally upstanding director. You're filming a big chase scene when your leading man slips on top of a car and accidentally punches a windshield, the big, beautiful dummy. Now his hand is all messed up. What do you do? Put shooting on hold while he heals? Of course, what a reasonable thing to do, why even ask? Of course, you are not David Fincher.

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Jaimie Alexander from Thor: The Dark World Almost Died From Falling Down The Stairs

You've probably been cruelly tricked by a few bottom stairs in your time, but it's unlikely you've beaten Jaimie Alexander in terms of the sheer scale of injury suffered. While filming Thor: The Dark World, Alexander wiped out on a slick metal staircase, leaving her with a herniated disc, dislocated shoulder, something torn that we can't pronounce, and eleven chipped vertebrae. Did you even know you had that many vertebrae? Try to construct a scenario in which you chip 11 of them at once, on purpose.

Marvel"I took all the pieces and built this out of them."

After figuring out something was wrong on account of the teeny bit of paralysis she was experiencing, Alexander spent about a week in the hospital, and then a month in rehab. Which doesn't seem like much! They make their women tough, those Asgardians. You might also be glad to know that when she did head back to work, she got teased about staircases a bit, because it seems that even when you're famous, your co-workers will still kinda be assholes.

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Robert Downey Jr. Just Straight Up Broke Halle Berry's Arm in Gothika

When Halle Berry accepted the role of a woman stuck in a haunted asylum in Gothika, she knew it was going to involve intensity and pain, but she probably didn't realize how much of that would be physical. For instance, during a "scene of intense struggle" with Dr. Robert Downey, Jr., he broke her arm. This wasn't, like, a big stunt or anything. He just pulled her arm wrong and broke that shit.

Warner Bros.It was all worth it too, in that it resulted in the creation of this fine ... entry in a Cracked article.

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Brendan Fraser Died During The Mummy Hanging Scene

Getting killed on the set of a movie is a rare but real occurrence. Brandon Lee was famously killed while filming The Crow. A stuntman was killed making Spider-Man. An effects technician was killed while operating a camera during The Dark Knight. A stuntman fell through a false floor and died making Suburban Commando. And world-famous cartoon character/leading man Brendan Fraser was killed making The Mummy. What's that? Brendan Fraser's not dead, you say? Well sure, he's alive now, but according to Fraser, for 18 seconds, while filming a hanging scene, he was dead.

Universal PicturesThe director would later apologize by offering him a bit role in G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra.

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James Bond Forgets To Duck, Needs Plastic Surgery

Choreographing fight scenes is harder than it looks, and that's doubly true for James Bond, who has to dodge fists while on water skis while having sex. He's also often smoking. It's a lot to keep straight, and while it doesn't always work, it usually doesn't go quite as bad as it did for Daniel Craig on the set of Quantum Of Solace.

Eon ProductionsWho could have used three or four quantums of solace after filming this one.

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Channing Tatum Poured Boiling Hot Water All Over His Penis

Yes, Channing Tatum once scalded his dick for the sake of cinema, but this did not happen on the set of the movie you think it did. You know. The penisy movie. No, the year before the movie that would make his junk famous, Channing Tatum was filming the historical drama The Eagle in sunny Scotland, unaware of just how eventful this film would also be for his undercarriage.

Focus Features His channing and both tatums.