Movie and TV productions have countless little tricks to make fake violence look real, but they don't always work out smoothly. Alan Ritchson, star of the hit Prime Video series "Reacher," learned this the hard way when filming a fight scene in season 1. As he explained in a January 2024 interview , he was seriously injured during the production of the episode "Reacher Said Nothing," when an evil henchman smashes a prop vase on his character's head.

"That fight took so much out of me!" Ritchson said. "I had a beanie on and when I got cracked in the head with a vase ... Look, it was a sugar vase and I said to the guy to just f***ing rock me with that thing, man. It looked really cool. It shatters and I'm like ... I feel it. I am dazed. We finish the sequence and I take my beanie off

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