10 On-Set Injuries That Forever Changed Actors

In order to look the part for her role as the newly buff Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, actress Linda Hamilton undertook a gruelling regime that included three hours of exercise six days a week and a non-fat diet consisting mostly of cereal, chicken and salad. But giving up food that actually tastes nice and exercising constantly weren’t the only harrowing experiences she endured.

During the scene in which Sarah Connor escapes the psychiatric hospital with the help of her son John Connor and Arnie in Good Terminator mode, the trio retreat to an elevator with Robert Patrick’s evil T-1000 in hot pursuit where a shootout between the two Terminators takes place.

Unfortunately for Hamilton, she forgot to replace her earplugs in between takes and so her poor lugs were subjected to the unmuted sounds of Arnie firing a round of dummy bullets in the confined space of an elevator which as you can imagine was quite a racket. To this day, Hamilton still suffers from serious hearing loss in one ear.