How much danger can a movie producer legally put an actor in?

[Ramira]

@Penfeather

In fact, let me see if I can simulate the cognitive processes. You saw a stunt performer stand in for a British actor who wasn’t comfortable riding a horse on a science fiction show that doesn’t usually feature horse riding, and concluded from that that British actors didn’t ride horses whereas American ones do because Bonanza. Astounding.

In the Foreign Places…

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

George Clooney won an Oscar for playing, well, a guy who gets tortured.

This put him in a position where he had “a two-and-a-half-inch rip in the middle of his back, a half-inch tear in his neck and was leaking spinal fluid to the point where it was coming out of his nose. For 15 days straight, the actor’s internal wounds were injected with blood, which basically means his spinal cord was relentlessly stuck with a needle. He was pumped with painkillers, which didn’t agree with him — Vicodin obliterated his stomach, following which he spent a long stretch of time on morphine, resulting in uncontrollable anxiety.”

Apparently the pain left him contemplating suicide.

[Morbo]

Charlize Theron was almost permanently paralyzed after landing on her neck awkwardly while doing Aeon Flux.