Elisha Cuthbert recently shared details about the time she was attacked by a mountain lion while she was on the set of the hit television 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 Terrorist Unit to track down and eliminate threats to the United States over the course of a period. 24 hours. The series ran for eight seasons, spawning two spin-off series and a television movie.
Cuthbert starred in 24's first three seasons and then returned on a recurring basis for seasons 5, 7, and 8. Aside from Sutherland, she is the only actress to appear in both the show's first and last seasons. In the first two seasons of the series, Kim was used as a distraction for Jack, causing the agent to stray from his mission to protect his daughter. Coincidentally, Kim's situation was sometimes intertwined with Jack's original case.
In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, actor Elisha Cuthbert shared details about the time she was attacked by a mountain lion while she was on the set of the hit TV series. 24. After a discussion about the actor sticking his mouth shut in the horror film House of Wax, Cuthbert was asked if that was the craziest thing he had 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. Read how Cuthbert describes the incident below.
“I think on the 24th I was trapped in the trunk of a car and they shot me. 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 in the scene and I was running outside of Los Angeles in the mountains, and the actual cougar that was on set ended up jumping out 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 season 2, Kim is suddenly stalked by a mountain lion. She tries to escape but ends up getting caught in an animal trap. Although the scene is brief and doesn't amount to much in the way of according to the story, due to the fact that 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 stark reminder of the dangers of working with wild animals on film. Scream star Neve Campbell recently recounted a moment early in her career when a bear bit her and dragged her 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 lion attacks while on set. Elisha Cuthbert had the chance to receive only a bite wound on the hand of such a dangerous animal. If the circumstances were different, the result could have been much worse.
