Tom Everett Scott: That was the day that started out with a Swiss crane crashing and almost killing Steve Zahn.
Steve Zahn: That was insane. That almost landed on my head.
Scott: I got to work, and they were like, ‘Did you hear about the crane?’
Zahn: I was plugged into the sound booth, and I had headphones on. I was playing my part, practicing, and I look up and I see fluorescent lights falling, and I see this crane coming right towards me. And I jumped out of the way, and it lands on the cart. I bit my lower lip, and it was bleeding, and I first thought ‘I don’t want to get it on my costume’. So I was over a trash can, and Tom [Everett Scott] walks in, he doesn’t know what’s going on, and he looks at me and sees the blood, and he starts laughing like I’m pulling a joke on him, and I’m like ‘No, dude, this is real.’ And we actually had to shoot the scene differently so that I had an explanation for a cut lip or something like that.
Scott: I actually thought the crane hit just your lip.
That Time Steve Zahn Almost Died While Shooting That Thing You Do
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