The 46-year-old "Olympus Has Fallen" star was struck in the eye by a wooden chisel while performing in a Shakespeare play, and he initially feared the injury could cost him his vision, reported Us magazine.
"First day ever as a professional actor, it was in theatre, I was actually doing Shakespeare and I was doing a play called Coriolanus and I had just talked my way into the role..." he said.
"(The scene) was supposed to be these citizens in revolt... So (the director) puts us all together and we didn't really need the chisels that we had, we had these wooden chisels that they were supposed to be using as weapons, but we didn't know our lines."
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