Actors Who Suffered For Their Biggest Roles

Jason Statham, The Expendables 3  

Terry Crews revealed that the stunts on this film almost took the life of action superstar Jason Statham. "He literally is supposed to stop the truck; we get out, we shoot, the whole thing. The truck doesn’t stop," recalled Crews, "The truck goes over the dock, into the Black Sea with Jason Statham driving."

Statham was able to free himself, but he's never been alright with the ocean since. 

Michael J. Fox, Back to the Future III

In one scene from this film, Fox had to stand atop a box with a noose around his neck. Then a box would be removed and it would look as if the boy had been killed. Obviously, this was supposed to be some movie magic, but like it often does, this stunt went awry. 

I" swung unconscious at the end of the rope for several seconds before Bob Zemeckis, a fan of me though he was, realized even I wasn’t that good of an actor," recalled the actor of the event. 

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Post originally appeared on Inside Mystery.