Peter Capaldi has revealed Brian Blessed once punched him so hard on a BBC set that he was knocked out and had to be rushed to hospital.
Capaldi said his co-star was meant to hit him as part of the scene but that Blessed got 'over-excited'. The 63 year old revealed he woke up dazed with paramedics tending to him - and was taken to hospital still in his period costume.
Capaldi, speaking to film news magazine Empire, said the incident happened while he and Blessed, 85, were filming for 1990s BBC show The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling.
He said: "I've got a scar under my eyebrow that runs the length of my eyebrow. That's when Brian Blessed punched me in the face.
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