Viggo Mortensen famously broke two of his toes while kicking a Uruk-hai helmet during the filming of The Two Towers, and his genuine scream of agony was kept in the final cut of the movie.

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Viggo Mortensen famously broke two of his toes while kicking a Uruk-hai helmet during the filming of The Two Towers, and his genuine scream of agony was kept in the final cut of the movie. Director Peter Jackson loved the raw emotion so much that he praised Mortensen's acting chops, fully exploiting his leading man's legitimate medical emergency for cinematic gold. To this day, you cannot watch that film in a room with a male aged twenty to forty without him pausing the movie to excitedly explain this exact piece of trivia, making it less of a fun behind-the-scenes fact and more of a mandatory biological reflex for fantasy nerds seeking validation from their incredibly bored romantic partners