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6. Jackie Chan Needed Brain Surgery After A Stunt Went Wrong In Armour Of God
The legend that is Jackie Chan has sustained so many injuries over his 60-year career that it’d probably be easier to list the movies that he wasn’t injured during the filming of … if indeed there are any.
His extensive inventory of injuries includes breaking his jaw, ankle, breastbone, knee, two fingers and his nose three times. He’s also dislocated his pelvis, shoulder and cheekbone and damaged his spine falling from a 50-foot clock tower.
But the closest brush Chan had with death came when shooting 1986’s Armour of God with a relatively simple stunt involving him leaping from a wall to a tree. He slipped and fell to the ground below hitting his head on a rock which forced a piece of skull into his brain.
Eight hours of brain surgery later, Chan was on the road to recovery but still has a hole in his head today which is stuffed with a plastic plug to – in his words – keep his brains from falling out.
Considering that Chan does the vast majority of his own stunts, these injuries kind of come with the territory but how he’s still alive is beyond belief.