Initially, Tim thought that his injury would cause him to drop out of the movie altogether, but Tina just said, “we’ll just write a little joke about you having carpel tunnel syndrome.” Thankfully Tina’s solution worked just fine, and we were able to see Tim’s hilarious depiction of Ron! They had already hidden Melissa’s first pregnancy with the genius idea of having her go undercover as a pregnant woman during the filming of season three (pictured above). But when season seven rolled around, with them having already decided to have the couple trying to conceive and with Melissa actually being pregnant, they decided to go with Amy and Jake having a baby! However, when Luke got his face mangled by the Wampa at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back, fans naturally thought they were addressing Luke’s unexplained facial injuries. Lucas, while admitting it helped explain the injuries, said the scene wasn’t intended for that reason. Carrie Fisher added her side to the story, by claiming that Lucas and Irvin Kershner shot a scene after Luke was saved from the Wamp. In that scene, his face gets attended to by a droid, and she said that there were discussions about how far they should go to address Hamill’s face. In fact, the writers even gave the scar a backstory in The Last Crusade when they showed us a young Indi, played by River Phoenix, picking up a whip while cornered by a lion and slashing his own chin open with it! She went on to say: “When we started shooting that episode, I thought to myself, ‘If everything goes well, this is going to be a very, very convenient coincidence,’” – and she actually found out she was pregnant IRL when they were filming that episode! So Jenna’s actual pregnancy was written-in alongside Pam giving birth to baby Cece! In an interview, Lisa explained the adorable ritual the cast used to do before shooting while she was pregnant: “The six of us would do a huddle backstage and just say, ‘All right, have a good show, love you love you love you love you.’ And when I was pregnant, then they would say, ‘Have a great show, love you love you — love you, little Julian!’ ‘Cause we knew it was a boy and that was his name.” While a lot of the time shooting would just be paused, Harrison’s injury required surgery, which he refused to get until filming was wrapped. This meant that Harrison’s limp had to become his character Richard Kimble’s limp for the rest of the movie! Exec producer Julie Plick remember warning the CW president about her “bananas pitch” to magically transfer Alaric’s babies into her, and he went along with it, thus giving us one of the most surprising moments of the entire series. The actor explained that Baz was all for incorporating it into the movie, however, saying: “Baz is so brilliant. He’s like, ‘Yeah, I like it. I can use that.’ I thought I was going to lose the movie. Baz is like, ‘You would have a black eye. You guys are brawlers.’ So they worked it in and added the black eye for the whole shoot.” Jodie had broken her leg when she was climbing back over her fence, retrieving a toy that her six-year-old daughter had thrown over, ouch! The writers wrote in Stephanie’s leg break in the aptly named episode, “Break A Leg.” That’s why in the episode “Lanakila”, Danno is asked about his injuries by Dr Teddy, and Danno, standing next to Steve, responds “This guy is like a physical injury, Doc. Ah, 10 minutes after meeting him, I get shot and blasted backwards through a window, okay? A few hours after that, he drives a car — not joking — onto the deck of a Chinese freighter ship. And, yes, I was in it. The car, not the ship.”
