Movies - TV
Actors Who Permanently Hurt Their Bodies For A Role
By LARRY FRIED
Carl Weathers
As the new golf coach of "Happy Gilmore," Carl Weathers' time on screen is short, but the pain he experienced lasted for years after the film's 1996 release.
Weathers’ landing on a misplaced stunt bag fractured two spinal vertebrae. He was in excruciating pain for years and developed bone spurs.
Jennifer Lawrence
Calling "mother!" intense is an understatement. In one scene, actress Jennifer Lawrence hyperventilated so hard that she tore her diaphragm and dislocated a rib.
She fully immersed herself in a performance to the point where she struggled to turn it off between takes. Lawrence confirmed on "Hot Ones" that the rib "still clicks to this day."
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman admitted to Front Row that he has done "damage to [his] voice" playing Wolverine. He specified his falsetto is "not as strong as it used to be."
Thankfully, this damage hasn't kept Jackman off the stage. Earlier this year, he concluded a hugely successful Broadway turn as Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man."
John Hawkes
In "The Sessions," John Hawkes plays a poet who is paralyzed from the neck down. Wanting to lose his virginity before he dies, he hires a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt).
Hawkes told Vulture that he shot the film laying down with foam under him to create the curved spine his character had, but he has had painful back issues ever since.
Russell Crowe
Somehow, Russell Crowe has sustained countless injuries from various roles he has taken throughout his career in films like Gladiator, Cinderella Man, and Robin Hood.
Crowe told Vulture about his long-term injuries, including multiple shoulder surgeries, grade-four tears in his Achilles tendons, and a complete lack of cartilage in his toes.