The Untold Truth Of Chris O'Donnell
In addition to being a grounded guy, Chris O'Donnell seems to prefer keeping his feet on the ground, as evidenced by his experience filming the 2000 thriller "Vertical Limit." When he was cast as a young climber in the movie, he had a fear of heights. According to Rolling Stone, the actor performed "many of his own stunts," including one that required him to be "attached to a rope and lowered over the lip of a 2,000-foot cliff." He had never attempted such a feat before.
Understandably, the young star wasn't exactly comfortable up there. "I was like, 'Um, can someone please show me a copy of my paycheck?'" he told the magazine, "'Remind me what I'm doing here.'" As he recounted to Dark Horizons, the role required him to be in peak physical fitness to adequately measure up to the demands of the movie, and he only had 30 days to be trained on "how to look and feel comfortable on the mountain." He confessed, "When I first went up and was put in some of those positions, I literally was shaking."
Did O'Donnell overcome his fear? The actor has since braved some stomach-churning heights to shoot scenes for "NCIS: Los Angeles," and in 2017, he shared an Instagram picture of himself hanging from a snowy mountain while filming "Vertical Limit" in New Zealand. He gave it the affectionate caption, "I want to go back and hang in New Zealand."
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