How do I explain it? I was in a harness in wires. I had to do a front flip off a second story balcony. Such was physics that I didn’t study it at school and maybe I should’ve. My coordinator was like, “I don’t know if we’re going to be able to make that work.” And I was 19, and invincible, and I was like, “Let me give it a go. I’ll make it work. I’m sure I can and if it doesn’t work, we’ll do it the other way.”

What occurred to me was if it doesn’t work, they don’t get the shot. I didn’t think if it doesn’t work, I might get nailed or get hurt, because you’re 19 and I’ve never been hurt. Anyway, I didn’t make it over. My wire stopped, andI folded in half backwards around my pec point. My heels hit me in the forehead. I tacoed backwards basically. That was pretty horrific. I think I scared the sh*t out of the crew.

I came back to work the next week which was stupid, and ended up in a puddle of my former self on the ground, which is not something I’ve ever done on set before. My director and coordinator sent me home and said, “Go the F home and don’t effing come back until you’re effing well because we can’t effing use you when you’re effing broken.” That’s right. Lesson learned.

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