John Goodman Gives Health Update After Scary On-Set Injury

Back in March, actor John Goodman suffered a fractured hip while filming a movie with fellow actor Tom Cruise.

Goodman gave details on the injury in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter's Ryan Gajewski, revealing how it all went down and how he's doing months later.

Thankfully, Goodman is just fine but noted how he wasn't able to do anything for about a month in the wake of the injury.

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"They operated the next morning, and so far, so good. Unfortunately, I was down for about a month there where I couldn’t do anything, and it was driving me nuts," Goodman said. "They found other things to do, and I finally got back into it."

Goodman also went into detail about how the injury occurred.

"It was a real accident," Goodman said. "We had been working on the scene for a week and a half. I wasn’t quite getting it right, and through a process, I finally made a breakthrough. But after that, we were blocking it, and I was wearing stocking feet, like I had been for the last week and a half. I was passing Tom, and my legs just went on the floor, and I came up parallel to the ground and landed on my hip. I tried to get back up, and when I couldn’t do that, I started fearing the worst. I didn’t know I had fractured it until we got X-rays."

There aren't many details known about the upcoming film starring Cruise and Goodman. We do know it's a comedy and that Alejandro González Iñárritu is directing it.

Goodman also has a role in the upcoming Smurfs movie, which is set to release on July 18.

John Goodman Gives Health Update After Scary On-Set Injury first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 11, 2025