When Peter Pan Fell out of a Tree

During the Peter Pan filming, a lot of people got hurt. Captain Hook fell off the ship five times. The director fell off the ladder while she was filming. I was Peter Pan's double and I jumped off a ladder and stepped on a sharp stick. Prince and Tootles fell out of the bunk beds and landed on each other. Wendy got hit in the head with the twins' swords. But the worst thing of all was when Peter Pan fell out of a tree.

It was our fifth day of filming. Our director went to pick everybody up in the afternoon. When everybody got here, we went downstairs where all our clothes were hanging on hangers: one hanger for each person. Everyone went and grabbed their hanger and went and got dressed. After that, they went upstairs and Miriam, our make-up person, gave each lost boy a smudge with the makeup pencil.

While the pirates where still getting makeup, us lost boys went with our director to the hideout. We filmed in there and then jumped on the tramp. Then we saw Captain Hook. It was the first time we saw Captain Hook. We jumped off the tramp and ran after him. Peter Pan came and ran after him too.

That day we were filming the pirates capturing the Lost Boys so we went down to the woods to the hideout tree. The director called all of us lost boys and assigned each of us to a pirate. I was assigned to Black Murphy. Smee had two lost boys. Everybody went behind the hideout tree.

Peter Pan wasn't in this shot. He was climbing the tree above us. It had just rained. He bent over, slipped, fell, and hit the ground with a thump. Everybody looked and was scared. They asked, “Are you okay?” He said, "I am sore," but after he laid there, he got up and was fine. Everybody kept asking, “Is he okay”.

Fortunately, he didn’t break anything and we kept on filming. I'm glad he was fine.

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AUTHOR: William

If Kids on Fire needs something done, and if that something involves a table-saw or a ball-hitch, William will be the first to do it. 

This all-boy phenomenon can wield a lightsaber or shoot a lost-boy's bow and arrow like a pro. He enjoys action scenes the best, but he's game for all of it and more of it because he loves it.