10 TV Show Mistakes Directors Left In Because The Acting Was Too Good

Make no mistake, a dangerous stunt going wrong on the day is no joke. But if all involved in this sort of on-screen miscalculation manage to make it out of the ordeal relatively unscathed, there have been those few occasions over the years where a backfiring stunt has managed to be effective enough for use in the end product.

Look no further than that time Natasia Demetriou very nearly went up in flames for real during the shooting of the What We Do In The Shadows TV show.

Heading into the moment involving Nadja's hands catching on fire in the middle of a church, the special effects guy working on the project used a special paste that Demetriou quickly realised had been applied a little too generously on her hands. Before she knew it, both of her hands had rapidly ended up excessively on fire, leading to the actor panicking in such a way that all watching on simply felt she was really in the moment as her character.

Far from it.

Thankfully, Demetriou made it out of the scene with both of her hands still intact. And with show creator Jermaine Clement feeling that the fiery accident still very much looked the part, the actor's visual fear of actually losing her hand in the moment was ultimately preserved in the finished episode.