Although Viggo Mortensen suffered an injury, he continued to play his role.
Most of Viggo Mortensen’s stunts in the Lord of the Rings films were performed by the actor himself. A lot of people got hurt making these movies, but Mortensen shattered two toes when he kicked a metal helmet. They included his agonised fall to the floor and subsequent screams for dramatic effect. Peter Jackson, the film’s director, has claimed that Mortensen channelled his suffering into an outstanding performance. He also nearly drowned and chipped a tooth during the Battle of Helm’s Deep sequence, but that’s not important to us.