In Stephen Gaghan’s 2005 thriller “Syriana,” George Clooney performs Bob Barnes, a CIA agent who despatched to the Center East to supervise the assassination of underground arms sellers. The globe-spanning movie was shot in a number of nations, together with Egypt, Morocco, and the UAE, and it is an action-packed affair stuffed with explosions, gunfights, and double-crossing backstabbers. “Syriana” finally netted Clooney an Oscar for greatest supporting actor.

Nevertheless, his Academy Award is not the one lasting impact from Clooney’s “Syriana” expertise. In accordance with a profile in The Hollywood Reporter, Clooney contends with persistent ache introduced on by an accident on the set. Apparently, a few days earlier than the shoot ended, the “Ticket to Paradise” star was filming the sequence wherein his character is tied to a chair. He toppled over and hit his head. “I assumed I might had a stroke,” he recalled. “It was like a prepare horn going off in your head and you may’t see and you may’t stand. After flying again to Los Angeles, he checked himself into Cedars Sinai and underwent intensive testing. In the end, medical doctors found that he had torn his spinal column.

Clooney informed the outlet that his struggling was so extreme that he thought-about ending his life. Fortunately, the ache has gotten simpler to deal with with time. “I’ve gone from the place I can not perform, the place ‘I simply can’t reside like this,’ to ‘I’ve bought a foul headache,'” Clooney mirrored. In the end, he concluded, ” … I am scrappy.”