When Sean Astin Was Airlifted To The Hospital After A Gruesome Foot Injury On ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Set
Sean Astin Was Injured During Filming ( Photo Credit – Facebook )
Sean Astin didn’t just carry Frodo to Mount Doom — the man literally bled for Middle-earth. While filming The Fellowship of the Ring, Astin suffered a gruesome foot injury that left him gashed, bloody, and airborne in a helicopter. A real-life emergency straight out of a fantasy epic.
It all went down during a scene shot at Lake Mavora, New Zealand, when Sam and Frodo were bolting through the water. Astin had been wearing prosthetic hobbit feet, but one wrong step turned deadly serious. A sharp object hidden in the riverbed stabbed straight through the fake foot, and deep into his real one.
“As my right foot lands about two feet in the water… just this huge sharp pain. I grabbed onto the side of the boat. It hurt so bad,” he recalled in the DVD extras (via Cheat Sheet). Director...
Sean Astin didn’t just carry Frodo to Mount Doom — the man literally bled for Middle-earth. While filming The Fellowship of the Ring, Astin suffered a gruesome foot injury that left him gashed, bloody, and airborne in a helicopter. A real-life emergency straight out of a fantasy epic.
It all went down during a scene shot at Lake Mavora, New Zealand, when Sam and Frodo were bolting through the water. Astin had been wearing prosthetic hobbit feet, but one wrong step turned deadly serious. A sharp object hidden in the riverbed stabbed straight through the fake foot, and deep into his real one.
“As my right foot lands about two feet in the water… just this huge sharp pain. I grabbed onto the side of the boat. It hurt so bad,” he recalled in the DVD extras (via Cheat Sheet). Director...
- 4/30/2025
- by Koimoi.com Team
- KoiMoi
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