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John Goodman has shared more details from the on-set injury that sidelined him for two months in March and caused him to undergo emergency surgery.
“It was a real accident,” Goodman, 73, told The Hollywood Reporter about the injury he sustained while working with Tom Cruise on the Health, England, set of The Revenant, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s newest film. The untitled project is described by IMDb as an action-adventure comedy about the most powerful man in the world, who tries to redeem himself as humanity’s savior after causing a disaster.
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Goodman shared that he’d “finally made a breakthrough” after working on one scene for more than a week. But while blocking — establishing the actors’ positions in the set — Goodman says, “I was wearing stocking feet, like I had been for the last week and a half. I was passing Tom, and my legs just went on the floor, and I came up parallel to the ground and landed on my hip.”
“I tried to get back up, and when I couldn’t do that, I started fearing the worst. I didn’t know I had fractured it until we got X-rays.”
The Connors alum said the film’s “brilliant” on-set doctor rushed him to the Cleveland Clinic’s London location, where he underwent surgery the next day. “So far, so good. Unfortunately, I was down for about a month there where I couldn’t do anything, and it was driving me nuts.”
But the show must go on, he explained, as the film “found other things to do” until “I finally got back into it.”
The film, which also costars Jesse Plemons and Riz Ahmed, is due in theaters October 2026.
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