{"id":3058,"date":"2016-08-30T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/aidan-turner-hurt-in-freak-sea-accident-while-filming-new-poldark-series\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:13:34","slug":"aidan-turner-hurt-in-freak-sea-accident-while-filming-new-poldark-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/aidan-turner-hurt-in-freak-sea-accident-while-filming-new-poldark-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Turner hurt in freak sea accident while filming new Poldark series"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Poldark star Aidan Turner was injured by a freak wave while filming the drama.<\/p>\n

The second series of Poldark starts next weekend, after its debut season was a huge and unexpected hit for the BBC.<\/p>\n

But Aidan has revealed that he was hurt and even dropped Eleanor Tomlinson, who plays Demelza, in the sea off the Cornish coast during filming, after a wave slammed a boat into his head.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Tomlinson (Jonathan Brady\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The heart-throb told Radio Times magazine: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like the Cornish sea at the height of winter for putting you in your place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were filming me lifting Demelza out of a boat in the actual sea when this huge wave picked up the boat and slammed it into my head.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dropped her in the water \u2013 not very Ross Poldark,\u201d he said of his romantic hero alter-ego.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd nobody was coming to see if I\u2019m OK. I was the man injured\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n

Eleanor Tomlinson, Aidan Turner and fellow co-star Heida Reed (Ian West\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

But Aidan said he was not the only member of the cast and crew who was hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the underwater cameramen got cracked as well and he was concussed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese waves, you wouldn\u2019t think there\u2019s anything to them, but once you get out there you\u2019re at the mercy of Mother Nature and she doesn\u2019t care how well the previous season rated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Poldark returns on Sunday night when it goes head to head with Victoria, ITV\u2019s rival period drama starring Jenna Coleman.<\/p>\n

The finale of the first series last year saw Poldark arrested for murder and plundering a shipwreck and his wife Demelza left alone on the Cornish cliff-top.<\/p>\n

Aidan Turner in Poldark(BBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

In the new series Ross faces capital crimes while he and Demelza are still dealing with the death of their daughter, Julia.<\/p>\n

Aidan told the magazine: \u201cYou\u2019d think at the end of season one it can\u2019t get any worse for these guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoss\u2019s company\u2019s bankrupt, they\u2019re completely broke and they\u2019ve just lost their child.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it just slowly does get worse \u2026There\u2019s prison \u2026 all sorts. But Ross is more comfortable when he doesn\u2019t share with anybody, he just takes the burden and the responsibility all himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aidan said that despite filming in the heart of winter on freezing Cornish beaches, he tried to keep a smile on his face.<\/p>\n

Aidan Turner on the front of Radio Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lead actors on any show end up setting the energy level, and if somebody is grumpy, it\u2019s hard to get the crew going.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo no matter how cold it is, you just have to man up and get on with it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Aidan, whose shirtless scything in the first series turned him into a sex symbol, said of his rise to fame: \u201cI hate having anyone saying I\u2019m blowing up \u2013 it makes me sound like Veruca Salt, rolling around going blue.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything feels like a slow progression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poldark star Aidan Turner was injured by a freak wave while filming the drama. The second series of Poldark starts next weekend, after its debut season was a huge and unexpected hit for the BBC. But Aidan has revealed that he was hurt and even dropped Eleanor Tomlinson, who plays Demelza, in the sea off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}