15 Great Movie Scenes That Nearly Killed Actors

6. Halle Berry - Die Another Day

First, let's be glad the insanely beautiful Halle Berry didn't die making this film, and second, the death was in the scene when she was making love to Pierce Brosnan, so it's hard not to find it kind of funny. You see, in the scene she 'erotically' eats a piece of fruit after cutting it with her bowie knife, but Berry got so caught up in the scene and presumably lost in Brosnan's beautiful eyes that she began to choke on the piece of fruit for several seconds before anyone realised what was going on. She said later that "there I was trying to be sexy and seduce Pierce, when I suddenly start coughing my guts up and choking on a piece of fig". It was thanks to Pierce Brosnan's quick thinking in applying the Heimlich maneuver that she didn't pass out or worse. So that's two lives saved by James Bond's second hunkiest alumni - that's almost enough to make him a meme. Berry was also injured when a piece of dust dislodged by a helicopter flew into her eye and scratched her cornea, and when making 2013's The Call, she slipped and smashed her head on a concrete floor. We're starting to think Halle Berry has a lot of bad luck.
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