Anarchist NexusExperience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/28/ex…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39429319
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kindredI have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.
M137I think you made wrong part of the text bold.
I have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.
Like this ?
He didn’t sue, which was stupid. This was an easily preventable issue, with only the most basic sense of responsibility. The director of that show should have been fired, prosecuted, and sued. So should the school.
He has numbness in his leg to this day. He has a permanent injury due to incompetence and neglect by a wealthy University. THIS is exactly what lawsuits are for.
This is peak drama kid. Why would it have to be sharp?
SturgistDoesn’t necessarily need to be sharp. Try hard enough and you can stab someone to death with a butter knife….or a spork
If you’re making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.
And before you ask, I’m in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot
And before you ask, I’m in medieval reenactment.
😉👉👉 That’s what I’ll tell anyone who asks
Really? How does it cut through leather, or even woolen clothing then?
Spears don’t cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being “sharp” when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.
George Carling said he could do it with just having really big hands.
I mean…if you can stab and kill a person with your hands and nothing else? Bravo
Dude, I refuse to accept that these are real people. Wanna know why? Every fake knife I’ve ever used on stage, I’ve tried to stab myself with. It’s fun to push the knife into the handle, or bend the rubber blade.
I’d be looking for a murder charge, personally.
bdonvrUh, but there wasn’t supposed to be prop knives on set at all?
NotSteve_Did the other actor really not realise they actually stabbed the person? I can assume actually stabbing someone would feel a little different than fake stabbing someone
He surely did. He also knew that the knife was real and agreed to play with it. Likely the same kind of moron as the main protagonist :shrug:
No doubt, I would be embarrassed to admit to this. They wrote this whole article and didn’t mention how stupid it is.
Using real knives is so colossally stupid, Britney Spears even uses fake knives in her unhinged solo Instagram dance videos.
This is like getting shot while doing a TikTok and then writing a whole article on it for the Guardian how you finished the TikTok and it was emotional to go back.
That was your takeaway??
some serious method acting
So, yes, this dude and his counterpart were adults, but did the director know about this? The author doesn’t say, but there ought to have been a reckless endangerment charge for him, or something similar, of he did know, and let it happen. Arguably, the same for the actor who stabbed him. Consent or not, there was an OBVIOUS risk of serious injury, if something were to go wrong, and for 0 actual benefit.