Cary Elwes talks about the real injury he suffered on the set of THE PRINCESS BRIDE

The Princess Bride is undoubtedly one of the best films of all time. It has danger, adventure, romance, sword fighting, poison, pits of despair and ROUS. It includes a sweet grandpa / grandson relationship and the greatest kiss of all time. What more could you hope for?

The cast of the film continues to talk about how great it was to make the film, but filming was not without its misadventures. In the star Cary Elwes’Book of 2014, As you wish: inconceivable tales from the making of the princess briderevealed that he actually got injured several times on set, and one of those injuries ended up in the final cut of the film.

According to Elwes, when Count Rugen (Christopher Guest), the evil six-fingered man, knocks out Westley to capture him and return Buttercup (Robin Wright) to Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), Elwes has been knocked out for real. As he recalls in As You Wish, the take didn’t really work because Guest, holding a real metal sword, was too kind not to hurt Elwes, preventing him from reacting and ruining the timing.

After a while, Elwes made a simple hint: why didn’t Guest just tap Elwes on the head with his sword for real so he could fight back?

Elwes explained:

“Chris [Guest] he swung the heavy sword towards my head. However, as fate would have it, it landed just a little harder than any of us had anticipated. And that, folks, was the last thing I remember from shooting that day. In Bill’s script [Goldman, who also wrote the original novel] scene indications from the end of this scene: the screen goes black. In the dark, scary sounds. Which is exactly what happened. “

Elwes reveals that, unfortunately, Guest really put him in the hospital:

“I woke up in the ER, still in my costume, with the scary sound of stitches being sewn into my skull … and obviously Chris felt absolutely terrible about the whole thing, even though I kept telling him I didn’t. it was his fault. It was my stupid idea. But you know what? That particular take was what ended up in the movie. So when you see Westley fall to the floor and pass out, it’s not acting. He’s too zealous an actor than in reality is losing consciousness. “

By this time, Elwes had gained quite a reputation for being accident-prone, as this was his second injury on set after severely breaking a toe while joking around on an ATV that Andre the Giant used to get around the set. In fact, the doctor who stitched up his skull had also treated his big toe and, according to Elwes, the doctor cost him when he regained consciousness, saying, “Well, Zorro! You seem to be prone to minor accidents, don’t you?”

It’s funny, just because Elwes wasn’t badly injured and everything was fine. love you The Princess Brideand I’ll keep an eye on this scene next time I watch it.

via: Looper