Tom Hanks – Cast Away

Some actors on this list get injured from physical blows, while others fall ill. During “Cast Away,” Tom Hanks’s decision not to bathe proved risky. 

He caught a staph infection from a leg cut, landing him in the hospital. Tom Hanks remarked, “I got an infection from a cut, and it was eating its way through my leg. I didn’t know it; I just thought I had a sore.”

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