15 Scenes In Harry Potter That Were Dangerous To Film

Tom Felton Matthew Lewis and Rupert Grint were just some of the people injured on the set of Harry Potter. The team tried to keep everyone safe, but there were a few mistakes like one that left Daniel Ratcliffe at the bottom of a 20-foot-deep tank. of water, from toppling towers to misbehaving brooms, let's explore the most

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in the series, devin, let's take it down. James and Oliver Phelps were always willing to try some stunts themselves, they trained themselves for this scene where Fred and George are thrown out of the cup after sneaking away. their names, but the professionals decided that it would be too

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to connect the actors to cables and tear them out of the cup, they had specialists do it and they were right, it was too dangerous and one of the stuntmen ended up dislocating his shoulder ready fred ready george hits rock bottom In most

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s Daniel Ratcliffe's main stunt double was this talented gymnast David Holmes, but a complicated scene in the Deathly Hallows didn't go as planned leaving Holmes seriously injured.

This scene required Holmes to be thrown backwards for a controlled explosion when Nagini attacked but Holmes was accidentally thrown into the wall, tragically suffering a broken neck and paralyzed. He is now in a wheelchair and this scene became the most devastating moment of the entire series. It was just a test that went wrong. and unfortunately I had my injury, there was a lot of pyrotechnics involved in the battle of Hogwarts, so the cast had to avoid all those flames, most of the fire was lit on a model of a castle that was made of wood, steel and plastic , but when the flames got a little out of control, it caught fire for real and quickly spread to the actual Hogwarts setting.

The fire was out within 40 minutes and only destroyed an outside patio, so luckily no one was hurt, I must say I expected better. When Harry falls from the ceiling in this scene versus the hungry horntail, Daniel was actually hanging 40 feet in the air tied to some cables, he was suddenly dropped and slid to the ground just like he planned, but it was absolutely terrifying. Daniel said he saw the life of him. A flash before his eyes as he fell to the ground, but luckily the wires were there to catch him and in the end he laughed a lot about it, that was really scary and I'm not afraid to admit that that was really scary.

Draco, getting a taste of his own medicine was more dangerous in real life than we would have thought. Emma and Tom talked before

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ing about making the slap in this scene look more realistic, slap me, she says no, I'm not going to slide, let's keep slapping me. For now, let's do this with emotions, but Tom never expected to be punched in the face, the punch left him with a ringing in his ears and a pretty bad headache for the rest of the day and now we all know that Emma Watson has a pretty bad right hook I feel really bad I'm not really sure what I was thinking talking about accidental injuries caused by cast members who would have thought that in this scene Helena Bonham Carter was hurting Matthew Lewis Helena decided to follow suit of bellatrix's bad habits and made fun of neville by putting his wand right in his ear but matthew lewis moved at the same time and the wand ended up piercing his eardrum helena felt terrible but she really didn't know how much damage she had done until matthew complained from his ear bleeding three days later I'm definitely taking advantage of every moment for the second attempt at the magical task.

The cast had to dive but it was much more complicated than it seems, they used a giant 20 foot deep tank to film the scene and Daniel was taught some diving signs so he could tell the professionals if he was in danger or if He was running out of oxygen. Over the course of three weeks he spent more than 41 hours underwater, the longest dive being 75 minutes, but at one point during filming he confused the signals and instead of telling his diving instructor that he was fine, he told him that he was drowning, causing him to be quickly brought to the surface.

It's a good thing he didn't confuse the signals when he was actually running out of oxygen or things could have gone much worse this means quick I'm drowning bring me to the surface while to me that means hey I'm fine tom Felton had to brave downed towers for this one room of requirements scene it's easy to think of all this stuff being done with cgi, but no Tom Felton and Louis Cordes, who plays Blaise Zabini, were actually on top of the pile of furniture that was dragged until it fell, They were connected to wires the entire time, but Tom admitted it was the scariest scene he ever filmed.

From the entire series we can definitely see why that table falling beneath them is the stuff of nightmares. Smiling now just because my feet are on the ground. This same room of requirements scene was also the first time in the series that the stunt coordinators had to put more than one person on a broom at the same time, that means they had to reinforce the back to get through where Daniel could pick up Tom's double. Daniel's next double intervened in the most dangerous part where the two had to throw themselves on the ground without padding for a crash landing, we never realized how much the cast of Harry Potter had to do while we were filming the stunt double Mark Maylie He replaced Daniel in this scene where Harry and Voldemort free fall from the tower, but admits it was really scary to film - it was a 55 foot high jump into cardboard boxes with no wires attached.

Manly escaped the fall unscathed, but Rafe discovers that the stuntman ended up breaking his head hard in the hand-to-hand combat when they landed and was sent to the hospital with a concussion which was, I think, the closest you'd get to flying without having nothing more to help you. The Whomping Willow caused its fair share of destruction both in the movies and on the set of this scene in Prisoner of Azkaban, Emma Watson. she actually swung on an animatronic branch, she and daniel also had to avoid the camera as it swung towards them acting like one of the giant branches of the tree.

Everything was perfectly choreographed so that no one would get hurt, but Emma and Daniel left the set feeling a little sorry. dizzy, almost all of the quidditch

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were a little dangerous with the cast atop brooms prepared to move and spin, but there were some moments that were more dangerous than others, as one Rupert Grint was actually hit in the face with a quaffle while filming his scene as a bouncer, but what's even more dangerous is how they made crash landings by having the stuntmen swing in the air and then take off onto a landing mat, which is something I use in the circus, Daniel said filming in The broom was scary enough because it was so high up and it was a very painful place to sit, but imagine if he had to fall off a broom like his double did.

Maylie's least favorite and most dangerous scene to film was this one where Harry falls. his broom, after coming face to face with a dementor mark, was wrapped in wire and lifted 55 feet high in the air, then had to swing upside down with his head toward the ground and spin as he fell to the mat below . It's a trick he's happy about. Never to repeat, the Harry Potter movies often use animal actors on set, meaning they had to be careful to avoid animal-related injuries when Malfoy turns into a ferret, they used a real ferret, he behaved pretty good, but Jaime Waylett, who plays the crab.

He had to take some precautions to avoid scratches and injuries. He wore two pairs of pants for this scene. One they put the ferret inside and a thick pair underneath to protect his legs. It was a good fight. He was training. Everyone remembers that moment. In the first movie, when the children enter the great hall for the first time, no one would have guessed that this scene was actually dangerous. If you look up you can see tons of floating candles and apparently they were all actually lit and held. They were only able to get one shot of the actual candles before they decided things were getting too dangerous and the The rest was finished with CGI, we'll leave you with a fun look at one of the stunt performers.

Harry Potter super fan Nicholas Danes was always a fan of the books. He auditioned to act as a quidditch player and finally managed to live the dream of him doing dangerous stunts like this, thanks for watching and visit our channel for more magical content.