The legendary Tom Hanks film, in which halfway through filming he almost died from poisoning due to a cut on his leg and was saved in time.
Tom Hanks He is one of the most loved Hollywood actors by all, and yet he has starred in indelible films such as Forrest Gump or Captain Phillips.
But one of those great films that will surely never be erased from your memory is Cast Away, released in 2000, and which was directed by Robert Zemeckis.
In the film, Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland as he tries to survive alone on a remote island.
In an interview with the BBC, Tom Hanks admitted that during the filming of the film he almost died of poisoning.
Specifically, he was hospitalized for three days due to poisoning that could cause death if it is not stopped in time.
Specifically, he suffered an infection in his leg from a cut, which caused poisoning.
What looked like just a sore from the cut was actually poison eating away at the leg.
“(Castaway) put me in the hospital. I was there three days with something that, believe it or not, almost killed me. I had an infection from a cut and it was eating away at my leg. “I didn't know, I just thought I had a sore.”
After seeing the doctor, They told him he would have to be hospitalized for a few dayssomething that forced production of the film to stop for three weeks.
Tom Hanks not only had the problem of poisoning, but to Castaway He first had to gain more than 20 kilos in order to lose them during filming so that the physical change could be seen in the film.
And as Tom Hanks himself declared to Entertainment Weekly, the process of losing more than 20 kilos in just a few months was really exhausting, because basically had to give up almost all of his favorite foods.
In this way, we must understand that even if we sit down to watch a movie in an hour and a half, the filming of it can take months, and circumstances may even arise that go unnoticed by the public.