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* In the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' movies, several actors really suffered for their art. Remember that scene in ''The Two Towers'' where Aragorn kicks an orc helmet and screams in frustration because he thinks the hobbits are lost? He just broke his toe. Poor John Rhys Davies was playing Gimli and was allergic to his latex mask. In the section when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are running across the countryside after the orcs, Viggo Mortensen had a broken toe, Brett Beattie, John Rhys Davis' stunt double, had a knee injury, and Orlando Bloom had broken ribs sustained from falling off a horse.

** Then there's Sean Bean, who hated helicopters. So, rather than ride the helicopter to the top of the mountain where the shoot was taking place, he ''climbed the mountain in his full Boromir costume'', did the shoot and then ''climbed back down again''. The climb took him two hours each way. That's dedication.

** When Sam runs into the lake to follow Frodo what you don't hear is that the actor stepped on a piece of glass in the lake and opened up his foot doing it.