Lord Of The Rings actor Stephen Ure has revealed he had a panic attack on set due to the prosthetics he had to wear.Ure, who played an Orc called Grishnak in the 2002 film The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers said he lost the ability to swallow and was “hyperventilating” while filming a battle scene.“The more the panic is coming the worse it is,” Ure told Thrillist. “I’d never really experienced a panic like that.
I was maybe three seconds away from ripping the face off so I could breathe. No one can tell because I’m under all that stuff.”The actor revealed he didn’t tell his co-stars or other crew members as he feared it would cost too much money to remove his prosthetics.“That was my own little episode,” he said.
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