Jennifer Garner has revealed she bit off a chunk of a stuntman's ear during a brutal fight scene for the 2007 film The Kingdom. The actress, now 53, compared the incident to Mike Tyson's infamous ear-biting match with Evander Holyfield in 1997.
Speaking at Apple TV's press day on Tuesday, Garner said director Pete Berg instructed stuntman Sala Baker to 'try to kill' her during the scene. 'We did not have a lot of choreography, and he told me to do anything I could to survive,' she explained. 'I ended up scrambling onto his back. I bit his ear, and we have a picture of him missing a chunk of ear, because we were not kidding.'
Garner was recently reunited with Baker for season two of The Last Thing He Told Me, where they fought again. She said the crew expressed concern, but she assured them: 'No, no, no, he's not going to be careful. I'm not going to be careful. Just back out of the way. I have a score to settle here.'
Garner's co-star Nicolaj Coster-Waldau was stunned, asking: 'Can we just go over that again? You bit a piece of his ear off?' The second season of The Last Thing He Told Me premieres on Apple TV on February 20.
