Jessica Chastain suffered head injury on 'The 355' that sent her to the hospital
Jessica Chastain is seen on December 02, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Nancy Rivera/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
NEW YORK - Jessica Chastain was injured so badly while filming a stunt for her latest role that she had to go to the hospital.
The actress revealed details of the accident on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
Chastain, 44, stars in the action thriller "The 355," which will be released on Friday. In it, she plays a spy, and she performed some of the stunts herself.
Co-star Penelope Cruz joined Chastain on Corden's show on Wednesday, where she revealed that she was "really worried" when one of Chastain's stunts went wrong.
"You must have gotten injured. Some of the stuff you're doing in the film is sort of ridiculous," the Corden said to Chastain, who admitted, she "actually had to go to the hospital."
"I was doing a fight scene and it was on a marble floor. I misjudged. I had fallen and hit my head. I misjudged the distance," Chastain explained. "I heard a crack."
Chastain revealed that others on set "stopped and looked scared" while she was "a bit stunned" herself.
"My stunt double comes up to me, she is French and doesn't speak a lot of English, she just comes up to me and she goes, 'I'm sorry, but I have to put it back in.' And I'm sitting there, I'm like, 'Put what back in? Are my brains outside of my face? What is happening?' And I guess it was just a bruise she was pushing back in my head. I did a couple more takes because, you know, I don't give up easy, and then I went to the hospital."
Chastain also serves as a producer of the movie. "The 355" also stars Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong'o and Fan Bingbing. They make up a group of spies who must stop a terrorist organization.
Also this week, Cruz and Chastain appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," where the two discussed a separate incident that resulted in Cruz telling Chastain she had to get checked out at a hospital again.
"We convinced you to go to the hospital because she didn't want to go. She wanted to keep going. I was like, 'You're going to the hospital!'" Cruz said, according to Yahoo! Entertainment.
"The 355" is directed by Simon Kinberg ("X-Men: Dark Phoenix") who co-wrote it with Theresa Rebeck ("Smash").
Jessica Chastain was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress in a Drama category for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
FOX News contributed to this report.