Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I have heard of method acting, but this takes it to a new level. In Austria, an actor has almost died after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife instead of a blunt prop knife.

Daniel Hoevels, 30, was performing in Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots at Vienna’s Burgtheater in Austria at the weekend. Hoevels’s character was to commit suicide in the drama, a scene that was to be acted out with a blunt stage weapon.

But he had been given a real blade instead, London’s Telegraph said. He collapsed with blood pouring from his neck, and the audience members started applauding what they thought were the spectacular special effects, the Telegraph said.

It was only when Hoevels failed to get up to take a bow that they realized something was wrong, it said. YIKES!!! The actor was rushed to the hospital and said to be in good condition.