Elisha Cuthbert recently shared details about the time she was attacked by a mountain lion while she was on the set of the hit TV series 24.
Elisha Cuthbert recently shared details of a cougar attack she experienced while working on the set of her television series. 24. Cuthbert played Kim Bauer, the daughter of Kiefer Sutherland's Agent Jack Bauer, on the hit show, which focused on the efforts of Jack and the Counter-Terrorism Unit to track down and eliminate threats to the United States throughout a period. 24 hours. The series ran for eight seasons, spawning two spinoff series and a TV movie.
Cuthbert starred in 24's first three seasons and then returned regularly for seasons 5, 7, and 8. Other than Sutherland, she is the only actress to appear in both the first and last seasons of the show. In the first two seasons of the series, Kim was used as a distraction for Jack, causing the agent to be diverted from his mission to protect his daughter. Coincidentally, Kim's situation was sometimes intertwined with Jack's original case.
In a recent interview, actor Elisha Cuthbert shared details about the time when she was attacked by a mountain lion while she was on the set of the hit TV series. 24. After a discussion about the mouth-gluing actor in the horror film House of Wax, Cuthbert was asked if that was the craziest thing he's ever done. In response, the actor explained that she was actually attacked by an actual mountain lion in a scene during season 2 of 24.
“I think on the 24th I was trapped in the trunk of a car and shot at. I was attacked by a mountain lion on that show, like, really, so I think it might be up there. We had a mountain lion that was on the scene and I was running outside of Los Angeles in the mountains, and the actual cougar that was on set ended up jumping up and attacking me, and I ended up getting bitten on the hand and going to the hospital. , I was attacked by a mountain lion. That was probably the craziest."
While lost in the wilderness of the Angeles National Forest during 24 Seasons 2, Kim is suddenly stalked by a mountain lion. She tries to escape but ends up caught in an animal trap. Although the scene is brief and doesn't go much in the way of the story, because Kim is rescued moments later by a scheming survivor, the injury occurred when the cameras were off. While Cuthbert's injury was extensive enough to warrant a trip to the emergency room, it could have been much worse.
Cuthbert's injury is a terrifying reminder of the dangers of working with wild animals on film. Scream star Neve Campbell recently recounted a moment early in her career when she was bitten by a bear and dragged through the woods. The Birds star Tippi Hedren was famously challenged by an elephant in the 1981 film Roar, which resulted in a broken leg. In the same film, the actor, along with cinematographer Jan de Bont and his daughter Melanie Griffith, suffered near-fatal attacks by lions while on set. Elisha Cuthbert happened to receive only one bite wound on the hand from such a dangerous animal. If the circumstances were different, the result could have been much worse.
