John Goodman describes fall on set of Tom Cruise movie that caused his hip injury: ‘I started fearing the worst’
The actors are costars on a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
John Goodman and Tom Cruise teamed up for a new movie
John Goodman is detailing his March injury on the set of his upcoming movie with Tom Cruise and Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“It was a real accident. We had been working on the scene for a week and a half. I wasn’t quite getting it right, and through a process, I finally made a breakthrough,” the star of Argo and TV’s just-concluded HBO series The Righteous Gemstones tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Friday. “But after that, we were blocking it, and I was wearing stocking feet, like I had been for the last week and a half. I was passing Tom, and my legs just went on the floor, and I came up parallel to the ground and landed on my hip.”
John Goodman photographed in 2023
Goodman, 73, then did what anyone would do.
“I tried to get back up, and when I couldn’t do that, I started fearing the worst,” he says. “I didn’t know I had fractured it until we got X-rays.”
As EW reported at the time, Goodman was treated at a hospital.
“Actor John Goodman experienced a hip injury,” a rep for the studio, Warner Bros., told Entertainment Weekly in March. “He received immediate medical attention that led to a brief delay in shooting to allow him time to recover. The production resumes shooting next week following John’s full recovery.”
In the new interview, Goodman explains his treatment.
“There was a brilliant doctor on set, and he got me into the Cleveland Clinic [in London],” the Big Lebowski actor says. “They operated the next morning, and so far, so good. Unfortunately, I was down for about a month there where I couldn’t do anything, and it was driving me nuts. They found other things to do, and I finally got back into it.”
