Have you ever acted? The actor is too busy concentrating on remembering his lines, keeping posture, walking correctly, making sure the audience can see him, doing the actions correctly and not bumping into the other actors or furniture to bother inspecting whether a knife is real or not.
Well, if you're still concentrating on posture, walking correctly, make sure you can be seen, heard and then make with the Stanislavski (be seen & heard by the audience), you haven't prepared sufficiently; you should be thinking only about your actions and objectives, not remembering your lines or other technical stuff. However, you do have a bit of a point. You don't go around the stage inspecting your prop to see if it'll kill you or not. Most of the time, a prop is just left in the wings - not in your dressing room as depicted in Hitman - ready for an actor in a rush to grab just before he/she runs on stage. Most props are not looked after by a specific actor, they're all taken care of by the imaginatively named 'Props'.
Here's a tip for anyone going on stage: if you see a prop seemingly carelessly left lying in the wings, for the love of God, leave it alone!! It's most likely been left there for a quick entrance. Something along those lines happened in a show last Christmas, where the Director (who was playing Scrooge) had left a costume change in the wings and some twit had removed it. Boy, did he breath Fire and Brimstone at us all afterwards!
That's way being a actor sucks
It certainly can!
Yeh, apart from the fact that this is very rare, and being an actor usually means girls, money and fame. Yeh, how it sucks to be an actor!
No, being an actor usually means a constant search for work, constant knockbacks and lousy money, unless you're lucky enough to land that major role. One shoot I did on a short independent was from 11am to 11pm and most of that was waiting around, outside, in the cold. Really glamorous. Even at the very top level, it is hard work - some of my acting teachers hit the heights 'back in the day' and have an endless supply of 'war' stories to tell us!! Gregory Peck did this, Marilyn Monroe did that - their names just roll of the tongue, while each and every student is like 'Woooooooooow!!!
Acting FTW!
Still, if he did die it would be a pretty cool way to go XD
I wouldn't mind going out on stage, for sure. You'd be going doing something you love after all.
I have major trouble in understanding how on earth this could of happened.
That knife must have been incredibly sharp. Most of the average person knives in the kitchen wouldn't slit your throat easily. Now, why on earth did this guy not realise the sharpness of the knife?
It was most likely swapped for the blunt one, but I still don't see why the actor didn't realise.
That's a really good question. As I said before though, most props are looked after by 'Props', so he may have just grabbed it and went on. Who knows? As you said, it must have been incredibly sharp, another reason to think that someone was trying to off him.
Sorry about the acting lesson, guys! Got a bit carried away there!!
Edit: Look at this quote:
The theater company said the original prop knife was damaged and that instructions to blunt the replacement had been "carelessly" disregarded. It did not specify who it thought might be responsible.
Now, that is what you call suspicious!
