Sometimes they are doctors, soldiers, intrepid adventurers or villains to fear, but when the cameras are turned off the actors return to being ordinary people. Of course, some of the most recognizable performers on screen can sometimes be heroes beyond fiction. This is how he proved it last weekend Julie Bowen, actress known for her role as Claire Dunphy on the sitcom Modern Family.
As reported by CNN, Bowen and his sister rescued a fainted and injured woman while on a popular tourist trail in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Minnie John, the injured woman, recounted in a facebook post that when she was walking with her husband and son around the place she felt a little dizzy and then she decided to wait for them sitting on a rock, but then she lost consciousness and when she woke up she heard “a familiar voice” asking her questions to make her react. It was Bowen who along with his sister, Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer, and a guide saw her the moment she fainted and hit a rock. “As I did not have enough strength to stand up, Julie and Annie helped me up, settled me on the rock and gave me the first cures,” John explained to CNN, grateful for the assistance of the actress and her group.
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The interpreter of Modern Family He thus joined an exclusive group of celebrities who donned the hero cape for at least a little while. In 2020, while on your yacht vacation near St. Barths, Leonardo Di Caprio helped rescue a man who had fallen overboard from another ship in the area. Along with his girlfriend Camila Morrone and a group of friends, the actor from Titanic joined the search for the man who had been lost at sea for more than 10 hours. As the boat Di Caprio was in was the only one in the area where the search had been reported, both he and the crew joined the rescue efforts and were able to take him on board in an area with dangerous waves. So the public could know what Jack would have done if it had been Rose who was left in the water in Titanic.
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Of course Kate Winslet, the actress who played Rose, had her own heroic moment on an island. In 2011 while on vacation with his family on the private island owned by millionaire Richard Branson, lightning caused a fire in the main house that put everyone in danger, including the owner’s 90-year-old mother. “Many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping my 90-year-old mom get out of the house and carry her to safety,” Branson wrote at the time. In addition to avoiding a tragedy, it was in that fire that Winslet met the millionaire’s nephew, Ned Smith, who became her current husband shortly after the incidents.
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Although it has been more than thirty years since the incident, only this year in a Facebook group dedicated to telling stories from behind the scenes of TV recordings and films created by members of the production teams in Hollywood, camera operator Bill Bennett revealed that during the filming of the movie Cocktail In 1988, Tom Cruise saved the life of his colleague Elisabeth Shue. According to Bennett’s account, during filming Shue was walking towards a helicopter in one scene and did not see that it was already on. “Those shovels can kill you instantly. Tom is an airplane and helicopter pilot and immediately realized the danger. As he was a few steps behind, he only got to grab her legs to prevent her from moving forward. Those of us on the helicopter were shocked by what might have happened. Tom saved his life ”, shared the technician.
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Danny trejo he is usually the bad guy in the movie. Or at least a surly and machete hero to take. However, in August 2019, was the hero of the day when while driving down a street in Sylmar, California, witnessed a crash that resulted in an overturned car of which the actor was able to pull out a trapped baby in his chair. When the local news program covered the news, Trejo – known for his solidarity work outside the film sets – explained to the cameras: “Everything good that has happened to me in life was directly related to having helped someone.”
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When it comes to accidents around Los Angeles it would seem that finding an actor on the side of rescuers is almost an everyday thing. This is how it seemed to the motorist Weston Masset when after crashing and being trapped in his car he realized that the face of who was forcing his door to rescue him was familiar. “Are you famous?” He asked Patrick Dempsey and, according to People magazine, the actor replied with a lot of humor: “Yes, I’m a doctor.” At the time, 2012, Dempsey who was playing neurosurgeon Derek Sheperd in Grey’s Anatomy, Not only did he get Masset out of the car using a crowbar but he even offered to call the mother of the young motorist in the accident.
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Of course, the most star-studded crash in Hollywood was the one that had Joaquin Phoenix as the victim and the director and actor Werner Herzog as the unexpected savior. In 2006, the Oscar-winning actor overturned his car on a Los Angeles street and it was the German filmmaker who appeared to save his life. The brakes on Phoenix’s vehicle failed while he was driving down a street on Sunset Bouvelard – a more Hollywood accident is not achieved – and his car ended up turned over. After the accident, the actor was so disoriented that he stayed inside the car and started lighting a cigarette when he heard a soft knock on the passenger window. “It was someone with a German accent saying ‘relax.’ Then he helped me get out of there, ”Phoenix recalled a few years ago. Herzog’s voice conveys calm and beauty. At that moment he made me feel safe, “explained the actor at the time. According to the director, who left the scene immediately after helping the actor, his intention was to prevent him from lighting the cigarette that could potentially have set off the vehicle and result in a tragedy.
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In the case of Benedict Cumberbatch, honoring his character, Doctor Strange, in the Marvel superhero saga, the actor went into action to rescue a delivery man that he was being mugged by four men in London. As reconstructed by The Sun newspaper in 2018, Cumberbatch was aboard an Uber when he saw what was happening and got out of the vehicle to defend the victim. Together with the Uber driver they got into the fight and managed to get the attackers to desist from the robbery. Later, when the details of the incident were known, the actor explained that far from feeling like a hero, he had intervened because “he had to.”
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A few years earlier, in 2017, his colleague Tom Hardy had done something similar when he saw two thieves take a motorcycle and collide with a car. While one of the criminals remained at the scene of the crash, the other fled and was chased by Hardy who caught him, made sure he had no weapons and handed him over to the police who were arriving at the scene. “It was incredible, he suddenly changed and became a superhero in an action movie,” an eyewitness told The Sun newspaper at the time about the actor from Venom.
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