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The above actor had an accident on set , can anyone tell me where and when please
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He broke his foot on Christmas Eve 1984 on the set of Fright Night at Laid Studios Los Angeles. Extract from his biography below.
"On a visit to Los Angeles, Ragsdale phoned Jackie Burch, a casting director he had met when Peter Bogdanovich was testing young actors for the lead in "Mask" some months earlier. "She didn't have time for lunch," Ragsdale recalls, "but she did ask me to come in to read for the 'Fright Night' part the next day and then again two days later. Over the next six weeks, I must have flown back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles five times. When they called to say I had the part, it was Halloween night."
Although he knew that the film's scenes would be shot out of sequence, Ragsdale was amazed by the degree to which that was true. "To actually do scenes out of order, lines within the scenes out of order, takes a tremendous amount of concentration," he says. "It's extremely difficult. Since Charley is terrified throughout much of the movie, I had to work out the stags that he goes through, which must be a lot like the stages of accepting death: denial, anger, etc. I hope that the chronological order I worked out these emotions in comes out on film."
Three weeks into the production, during the last take of the day on Christmas Eve, Ragsdale broke his foot running down a staircase, and production was suspended briefly to allow the injury to heal. The accident didn't quell his enthusiasm. "It slowed me down a bit," the actor says, "but I came back. Rod Martin, a trainer for the Los Angeles Raiders, came in every day to wrap the foot for me, and the shooting schedule was rearranged to put off the action sequences until it mended. Nobody panicked. In fact, I think that the thing I'll remember most about this movie is everyone's spirit and humor."
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"On a visit to Los Angeles, Ragsdale phoned Jackie Burch, a casting director he had met when Peter Bogdanovich was testing young actors for the lead in "Mask" some months earlier. "She didn't have time for lunch," Ragsdale recalls, "but she did ask me to come in to read for the 'Fright Night' part the next day and then again two days later. Over the next six weeks, I must have flown back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles five times. When they called to say I had the part, it was Halloween night."
Although he knew that the film's scenes would be shot out of sequence, Ragsdale was amazed by the degree to which that was true. "To actually do scenes out of order, lines within the scenes out of order, takes a tremendous amount of concentration," he says. "It's extremely difficult. Since Charley is terrified throughout much of the movie, I had to work out the stags that he goes through, which must be a lot like the stages of accepting death: denial, anger, etc. I hope that the chronological order I worked out these emotions in comes out on film."
Three weeks into the production, during the last take of the day on Christmas Eve, Ragsdale broke his foot running down a staircase, and production was suspended briefly to allow the injury to heal. The accident didn't quell his enthusiasm. "It slowed me down a bit," the actor says, "but I came back. Rod Martin, a trainer for the Los Angeles Raiders, came in every day to wrap the foot for me, and the shooting schedule was rearranged to put off the action sequences until it mended. Nobody panicked. In fact, I think that the thing I'll remember most about this movie is everyone's spirit and humor."
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