Movie Scenes Where Actors Bled For Real

While filming a racist rant as plantation owner Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio slammed his hand on a table to punctuate his angry words. Unfortunately, during one take, DiCaprio's hand slammed right into a glass. The glass immediately broke, ripping up DiCaprio's hand in the process. Although blood was pouring from his injury, DiCaprio stayed in character and finished the scene.

After the rant was over, DiCaprio's hand was cleaned and bandaged. He kept it that way for the rest of the film. Thankfully, his suffering paid off. Director Quentin Tarantino decided to use the bloody take in the final version of the movie.

While filming the intense whipping scene for The Passion of the Christ, a board was set up behind actor Jim Caviezel. The actors using the whips were supposed to land their blows on the board, rather than Caviezel's back. Unfortunately, the actors didn't have the best aim. One performer hit Caviezel so hard with the whip that he knocked the air out of him.

Although Caviezel gave his coworker a piece of his mind, a few moments later he was hit again, this time opening a gash in his back. The injury was just one in a long line of injuries Caviezel suffered while filming.

While tussling on a speedboat with Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) in Patriot Games, Sean Bean's character, Sean Miller, ultimately perishes when Ryan impales him on an anchor. While Bean didn't suffer the full force of the anchor in his chest, he did contribute his own blood to the gory scene.

During the fight, Ford managed to hit Bean right above the eye with a boat hook. The injury required several stitches, and Bean still sports the scar over his left eye to this day.

In the opening scene of Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen's character slowly regresses while sitting in a room by himself. After being forced to examine himself in a mirror by director Francis Ford Coppola, Sheen brought some of his own instability into the opening scene. At one point, he punched his own reflection and came away with a bloody hand.

Both the punch and the resulting blood made it into the final cut of the film. While it's a little nerve-wracking to watch Sheen come off his hinges, Coppola felt that the outburst was the perfect opening for the film because it placed the character's instability on display from the very start.

While trying to find a comfortable place to spend the night in Blade Runner, Daryl Hannah's character, Pris, is surprised by a man on the street. She gets up and tries to run away, but slips and runs into a van, jamming her elbow through the glass of the window.

Since Pris is a replicant, the blow doesn't impact her at all. Staying in character, Hannah continued with the scene without flinching. When she finally got a chance to examine her elbow, she realized that she tore it up badly enough to require eight stitches. During the time entire she's talking to the man, her elbow is bleeding under her thick jacket. She still has the scar to remind her of her injury.

While playing an Olympic wrestler in Foxcatcher, Channing Tatum filmed a scene where his character becomes so overwhelmed that he smashes his head into a mirror. To protect Tatum while filming, the crew put a plastic sheath over the mirror. However, their protective measures didn't make a difference.

Tatum smashed his head into the mirror three times with so much force that he shattered the mirror and punched a hole through the mirror, the frame, and the drywall behind the frame. Not only did he create a 2-inch divot in the drywall, but he also cut himself on the shattered glass. Although he only required a simple bandage to deal with his injury, his injury made it into the final cut.

Roar is technically a fictional adventure-comedy film, the story is entirely too real. After visiting a game preserve in Mozambique, actors Tippi Hedren and Noel Marshall decided to make a film about the animals they had seen there. They brought a variety of exotic animals to their home in Los Angeles and recruited their own children to star in a film about a family living on a nature preserve in Africa surrounded by big cats.

In all, Hedren and Marshall brought 132 animals to their Los Angeles home. While filming the movie, injuries with the animals were common, and many were left in the final cut of the film. One particularly disturbing scene shows Marshall trying to break up a fight between two male lions. When he tries to pull one lion away, the animal turns on him and jumps up, forcing Marshall to fall to the ground. When he stands up, he's clearly bleeding from a cut on his hand.

In fact, Marshall was mauled so many times over the course of filming that he contracted blood poisoning. Melanie Griffith was mauled near her eye and needed plastic surgery to fix the damage. Hedren needed skin grafts after she contracted gangrene. Despite the real-life gore of the movie, however, much of these disturbing injuries were played for laughs in the final cut of the film.

In Emma, one iconic scene features Emma getting a nosebleed. While filming the recent remake, Anya Taylor-Joy was prepared to have fake blood dripped onto her face to create the necessary effect. When it came time to actually film the scene, however, Taylor-Joy managed to get a nosebleed all on her own. Although she wasn't planning to bleed for real, she worked herself up so much that blood began to drip from her nose.

Rather than clean herself up and begin filming again, Taylor-Joy insisted that they keep filming. Her real blood made it into the final cut of the movie.