Actor James Franco accidentally ripped off a piece of his thumb while filming new biopic The Broken Tower in a remote town in Mexico.
The star was shooting the low-budget film - about tragic American poet Hart Crane - last year, when he injured himself with a set piece while
the cameras were still rolling.
But Franco, who directs and stars in the movie, was forced to conceal his pain because the production team only had one chance to capture the scene.
"It was this part right before his suicide where he thinks he's lost his talent and he's destroying his typewriter and he's supposed to throw it down a few times and then stomp on it," he says.
"So I said, 'Action,' ran in, picked up the typewriter and threw it. Picked it up, threw it again. And by that time it was mangled, so when I threw it down the third time, it took part of my thumb with it.
