10 Things You Didn't Know About Harry Potter's Scar
3. Over 5,000 Scars Were Applied Across The Movies
With eight movies - each over two hours long - countless deleted scenes, multiple takes and dozens and dozens of stunts, the Harry Potter makeup team had to apply a hell of a lot of lightning bolt scars.
Across a ten-year stretch spanning from The Philosopher's Stone (2001) to The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011), it's estimated that around 5,800 individual forehead-scars were stencilled onto Daniel Radcliffe, his doubles and his stunt performers.
Of that crazy number, 3,800 of those were on Radcliffe himself. With the scar template method, applications didn't take too long, but it's still a lot of work: these scars had to be drawn onto different foreheads, but each scar had to be in the exact same place as the last, in order to preserve continuity.