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Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗
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Carlos Acosta
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In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
Martin Clunes
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Abseiling down a cliff for Doc Martin in a suit, carrying a medical bag.
Julian Sands
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In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
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When I was 13, I was on a bicycle and got hit by a taxi in New York.
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