10 Movie Scenes Where Actors Weren't Faking

2002's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers picked up immediately where its predecessor left off. With the Fellowship of the Ring broken and Merry and Pippin captured by a band of Uruk-hai, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are left to follow their trail over the hills and through the glens in the hopes of saving the helpless hobbits.

Tracking the halflings into Rohan and right to the edge of Fangorn Forest, the trio find a pile of burning orc and Uruk corpses where the Rohirrim laid waste to Merry and Pippin's captives in the night. Upon discovering one of the hobbits' scabbards in the ash, Aragorn kicks an Uruk helmet and screams in anguish, dropping to his knees.

However, what seems like a moment of beautifully acted emotional pain for his fallen comrades, was in fact a moment of very real physical pain for Mortensen. Four takes in, at Peter Jackson's insistence, he went full-pelt on the helmet, aiming to bring it in as close to the camera as possible, but ended up breaking two toes in the process.

That he stayed in character throughout is a credit not only to Mortensen as an actor, but to the film as a whole.