

After surgery, I regained the use of both of them but was left with a long scar on my arm. My right arm had been shattered and my right hip had been fractured.

“An ambulance carried me to the hospital. When she was 14, Lakshmi was in her parent’s car when it flew off a Malibu highway and 40 feet down an embankment. Lakshmi also owes the seven-inch scar on her arm to a car accident. Bean’s scar has actually helped him land film and televisions roles afterwards. While filming Patriot Games, Ford accidentally hit Bean in the head with a boat hook while shooting an action sequence. Speaking of Harrison Ford, he is responsible for the scar on Sean Bean’s forehead.

While driving to his job working in retail, Ford crashed into a telephone pole while fumbling with his seat belt, slamming his face against the steering wheel. And then he swiped me down my face.”įord owes the scar on his chin to a mundane car accident from when he was younger. He was positioning the razor in his mouth to get it between his middle finger and ring finger. “The dude wiped his hand across his mouth and … smacked me,” he says. A man approached him from behind, as he told NPR. Like Flanagan’s scar, the scar on the face of The Wire and Boardwalk Empire actor resulted from a fight, this one on Williams’ 25th birthday. It was a wound designed to make the victim look like he was broadly smiling. He tried to fight back, and his attackers rewarded him with a “Glasgow Smile,” which was popular with street gangs at the time. Here are the sad and fascinating backstories behind the scars we see on nine of our favorite actors.įlanagan was was attacked with a knife twenty years ago outside a bar in Scotland while he was working as a DJ. Every scar, however, tells a different story. Some may hide those scars, while others wear them proudly as reminders of accidents or tragedies that made them the people they are. Scars leave an indelible mark that can often help to define the look of an actor.
