Viggo Mortensen – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
After four takes of kicking a helmet towards the camera, Viggo Mortensen finally went for broke on the fifth. Quite literally. Director Peter Jackson recalls, “Then he let out this scream. I thought wow, this is strong . . . He didn’t say anything to us, but we found out that Viggo had actually broken two toes with that last kick. Normally an actor would say, ‘Cut! Get the medic!’ . . .Viggo feeling that pain, he actually turned it into performance . . . Of course it was the best take so it’s actually in the movie.”Orlando Bloom would like you to know he broke his ribs as well.