Movies That Permanently Damaged Actors' Bodies

Best known these days for her role on "Stranger Things," Winona Ryder got her start in the '80s in films that would go on to become classics like "Heathers" and "Beetlejuice." In 2002, Ryder paired up with Adam Sandler for "Mr. Deeds," the lowbrow remake of the 1936 classic "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." The movie stuck Ryder with not just her worst on-set injury but the worst injury of her life, full stop. She told W magazine, "I never broke a bone until the movie, until I did 'Deeds'."

While filming the sequence where she and Sandler ride bikes down the Central Park staircase, Ryder got her heel caught in the bike pedal, which led to a gnarly crash down the steps. She described continuing to shoot that night and not realizing how much pain her arm was in until she woke up the next morning, recalling, "I'm an actress — I'm trained to hide my pain. But eventually, I went to the doctor, and it was broken in three places!" She considered it lucky that the breaks happened on her joints, which meant that her arm wasn't placed in a cast, and filming could continue as normal without needing to hide the injury on camera. 

In a terrible bit of bad luck, Ryder re-broke the same arm later that year when a news camera rammed into her as she was swarmed by the press on her way into a courthouse for a hearing related to her shoplifting arrest.