15 Beloved Movies That Almost Killed Their Stars And Directors
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Being in Hollywood is a treacherous business. There's back stabbing, studio politics and machinations, about a million and one career pitfalls and potholes to look out for and all the other perils of sudden wealth and fame. No thanks--that's why we prefer to remain humble and largely anonymous internet writers.
The fact is, though, that being in the movies can pose more than metaphysical danger. Sometimes it can literally be a matter of life and death. Being a Hollywood star isn’t just catered meals and fawning attention – don’t forget all the blood, terror, and near-death experiences.
For example, Lucille Ball (of I Love Lucy fame) was almost beaten to death (really!) on set. There are more modern examples as well. Halle Berry almost died on the set of Die Another Day when she choked on (wait for it…) a FIG. She was supposed to seduce Pierce Brosnan with the fruit but ended up nearly choking to death on it instead.
Want to learn about more movies that almost killed their stars? Scroll down!
![Lucille Ball once almost got beaten to death in a fight on the set of I Love Lucy. She had an on-screen fight with actress Teresa Tirelli for a scene, and Tirelli apparently got really into it - so much so that Ball was afraid she'd die. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/9/804939.jpg)
![Halle Berry nearly choked on a fig while filming Die Another Day. She was supposed to seduce Pierce Brosnan with the fig, but ended up almost choking to death on it, and he saved her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/4/804944.jpg)
![The Jackass 4 shoot landed both Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O in the hospital. a DEXTER And amazingly, it happened on the second day of production-they jumped on a running treadmill while wearing tubas. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/8/804948.jpg)
![Cast Away was an extremely dangerous experience for Tom Hanks. Не got a really nasty infection and had it treated in the nick of time - apparently, if he'd shown up an hour or so later, it might have been too late. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/0/804950.jpg)
![Guillermo del Toro was nearly killed by a car while directing on The Shape of Water. Michael Shannon had parked it, but it was an old car, and kept going - straight at del Toro. Luckily, it stopped in time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/1/804941.jpg)
![Idris Elba miraculously survived a fall on the set of Beasts of No Nation. Не leaned against a tree above a very high waterfall, but he somehow lost his footing - and, luckily, landed on a ridge above the waterfall. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/5/804945.jpg)
![Adding injury to insult, Super Mario Bros nearly killed Bob Hoskins. Hoskins says he got stabbed four times. Electrocuted. Broke a finger. Nearly got drowned. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/1/804951.jpg)
![Meryl Streep apparently could have gotten killed while making Into the Woods. At one point, right after she'd jumped up onto a table, she started falling off of it - but Emily Blunt caught her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/7/804937.jpg)
![A horse almost trampled Johnny Depp to death on The Lone Ranger set. The horse he was riding in the desert went out of control, so he got off it-and if the horse hadn't jumped over his body, he might've been dead. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/2/804942.jpg)
![Danny DeVito nearly drowned on the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set. They had to weigh him down in an underwater scene, which meant he had a hard time getting back up (and unsurprisingly, he panicked). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/0/804940.jpg)
![Emily Blunt crashed a car on the Edge of Tomorrow set, nearly killing Tom Cruise. Не was in the passenger seat and told her to brake, but she didn't listen. Luckily, he just laughed when it happened. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/7/804947.jpg)
![Jodie Comer nearly choked on particularly dry pasta in Killing Eve. It's maybe the least glamorous way to accidentally die, but the pasta was so dry, she couldn't swallow it and it almost killed her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/6/804946.jpg)
![Harrison Ford could have been killed by, of all things, the Millennium Falcon. Не injured his ankle and leg by a door on the Millennium Falcon set-but, if things were slightly different, the door could've crushed him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/804943.jpg)
![Jackie Chan got 2nd degree burns on the Police Story set, and he got off easy. Не had to slide down a pole that had gotten very hot -i if he didn't let go, he might've died instead of just burning his hands. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/8/804938.jpg)
![Michael J Fox nearly got literally strangled by a noose in Back to the Future III. They hung him so tightly that, after he'd been swinging for a few seconds, Robert Zemeckis realized he was genuinely passing out and not just acting. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/9/804949.jpg)