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Jimmy Smits Stabs Stuntman
4-Oct-2008
Written by: E. Van Dril
It was an accident, though.
A stuntman on the set of Dexter is rather lucky to be alive after Jimmy Smits accidently picked up the wrong knife (a real one, instead of the prop that was set up) and stabbed him during filming a fight scene for the TV show.
The man stabbed by the former-NYPD Blue star was Jeff Chase, who was thankfully wearing a small piece of plastic over his heart, which Smits somehow hit.
"For the scene, I was bound in Saran Wrap, duct tape over my mouth. I couldn't say a thing as I saw Jimmy grab at the knife. He picked up the real one by pure mistake. It was a mean looking knife," Chase said. "I heard fellow actor Michael C. Hall yelling at Jimmy to stop - but it was too late. I felt the thud in my chest. I didn't have on a metal breast plate like a lot of actors do in a scene like that."
He goes on to say that: "Instead I had a piece of acrylic clear plastic about the size of a Post-it note over my heart. It was a quarter of an inch thick and not attacked. In 8 out of 10 takes with the prop knife, Jimmy had missed the plastic. But by a miracle, an act of God, the knife landed at the very edge of the plastic."
Wow.
"I really thought I'd been stabbed in the heart, but I didn't have a scratch. Jimmy was devastated and couldn't stop apologizing. I told him, I felt more sorry for him than me."
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