Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Knightley returned to work, but she had developed PTSD in the interim. Despite having won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Pride and Prejudice, Knightley couldn't help but feel like a fraud. She even underwent hypnotherapy to prevent panic attacks prior to the 2008 BAFTAs.

"I felt pretty much like actually I didn't exist and I was this weird creature with this weird face that people seemed to respond to in quite an extreme way," Knightley recalled.

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The More You Know

  • Beck Hansen wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band S*x Bob-omb in the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World".
  • In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • In the movie Dredd, they slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 times to create the "slow motion" noise.
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