Actors who truly suffered – Do you ever wonder if actors encounter something twice, once on film and once in real life? If you act for a living, you pretend to experience monumental moments, drawing inspiration from whatever you can imagine, what you’ve heard or what you’ve read, but what if you actually lived that experience in real life? It would make sense then that that would give you a better perspective.
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This can also go the other way; an actor might first experience a traumatic event through a character in a movie and then something similar happens to them later in life, like a morbid dress rehearsal for the real thing. With all the films being made each year, there are bound to be some crossovers with real life, but that doesn’t mean they are any less surprising when they do happen.
There are several different types of these crossovers, call them divinely inspired or coincidences, but there are also intentional crossovers, moments when a scripted scenario becomes reality, either because the director wanted it that way or because something went wrong.
This helps the actor’s performance because they’re reacting as opposed to acting, something that comes naturally to everyone. This event is now real, so the actor’s response is automatic and, of course, believable. If nothing else, these connections between character and actor make the line between the two a little thinner. Here are 13 actors who suffered similar trauma to their characters.
13. Injured Achilles, Brad Pitt – Troy
When Brad Pitt, while playing the hero Achilles, was filming the fight scene between him and the giant of a man, Boagrius, in Troy, something very ironic happened. As the Pitt jumps and stabs the man in the neck/shoulder, he lands and takes a couple of steps, looking down with a small look of confusion.
Knowing what to look for, we can see that something is wrong, but Pitt managed to stay in character for the most part. It turns out that Pitt actually injured his Achilles tendon in that scene. Over the next few months, all of the action scenes had to be delayed while Pitt healed up. So why is this ironic?
Well, the reason we call that tendon “the Achilles” is because the legendary character Achilles was killed by an arrow to the heel, his weakness and the only place he wasn’t invincible. This scene happens at the end of Troy, so Pitt got a crash course in how to act when your Achilles heel is damaged.
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