LUKE Hemsworth sustained a grisly injury the week of his most action-packed Westworld scenes.
The oldest of the Hemsworth brothers plays Ashley Stubbs in the HBO dystopian drama and make his season 3 debut in the latest episode.
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It was confirmed that just as fans suspected, Stubbs is a host, rather than a human.
After the fall of Westworld Stubbs attempted to take his own life, only to discover that he was one of androids he had been striving to protect.
He was later recruited by Bernard, to help prevent Dolores’ (Evan Rachel Wood) attack on the real world, having escaped the toppled parks.
What ensued was a high-octane battle sequence, with Stubbs shot in the arm by Delos employees.
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It turns out that the reason bosses had Stubbs shot was to mask a real life injury that was impeding his movement.
“The funny thing is, the first big fight that I had when we’re leaving the park with the guys in the hallway, I actually snapped my bicep off the bone two days before that,” Hemsworth told Insider.
“So when [Stubbs] gets shot in the arm, that was something we had to do because I couldn’t move my arm properly,” he added.
As for how he sustained the injury, the hunk admitted that he felly prey to some botched DIY.
“I was hanging a TV by myself on a ladder and just — it was a big TV, it was really big,” he went on.
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“And it was a really long way up. I was just kind of bouncing it to get it onto the brackets and it just went like [makes a popping sound]. It was like an axe chop.
“But I got the TV on! Somehow the TV was on the brackets and it’s still there to this day.
“They had to write it in because physically I could barely lift my arm and then I had surgery the following week. That whole fight scene is one-handed because, uh, yeah.”
Hemsworth previously recounted being kicked in the head by Evan Rachel Wood, so suffice to say the show took a lot out of him.
In other Westworld news, Game of Thrones news went wild as Daenerys Targaryen’s dragon Drogon made a rogue cameo.
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One scene showed two employees working on the design of a familiar-looking dragon and they turned out to be none other than Game of Thrones bosses David Benioff and D B Weiss.
Given the pair’s experience working with mythical beasts, who better to design them for the sinister conglomerate?
Westworld’s final season will consist of just eight episodes, compared to the ten of previous seasons.
See The Sun Online’s official season 2 recap and unanswered questions for season 3 to re-familiarise yourself with all things Westworld.
