Getting injured on set can have long-lasting consequences for actors, as Ma Dong-seok can testify.
The Korean-American actor, also known as Don Lee, attended a press conference for his upcoming movie The Roundup: No Way Out yesterday (May 24), which reportedly marked his first in-person interview in four years.
He confessed to South Korean media that it was because he had “a lot of bad luck with injuries”.
“I got into an accident while working as an actor in South Korea,” he explained. “While filming overseas, a building collapsed and I fell six metres down, breaking two vertebrae, my breastbone, an ankle, and half of my Achilles tendon.”
Admitting that the situation could have had far worse consequences, the 52-year-old gave props to his “strong bones” for surviving the accident.
While Dong-seok did not specify which drama or movie he was shooting when he was injured, it was previously reported that he suffered an accident on the set of the 2014 K-drama Bad Guys.
The Roundup: No Way Out is the third movie in the film series which sees Detective Ma Seok-do (Dong-seok) teaming up with the Metropolitan Investigation team led by Jang Tae-soo (Lee Beom-soo).