Canadian actress Taylor Hickson has filed a lawsuit against a production company she claims is responsible for a disfiguring face injury.
Hickson is the star of indie horror film, Ghostland. The 20-year-old was injured in December 2016 while on set in Canada.
The ‘Deadpool’ actress filed the lawsuit against Incident Productions on Friday.
Canadian actress Taylor Hickson (left, before the injury and right, after the injury) has filed a lawsuit against a production company she claims is responsible for a disfiguring face injury
Hickson was required to shoot an ’emotionally charged scene’ with her face near or against the glass in a door and pound it with her fists. The glass then shattered, causing Hickson’s head and upper body to fall through the door and shards of glass. Pictured are her injuries
Hickson was required to shoot an ’emotionally charged scene’ in which her character was required to, ‘with her face near or against the glass in a door, pound it with her fists’.
Ghostland will be released in France next week
The incident occurred just days after her 19th birthday when the director, Pascal Laugier, reportedly asked her to pound harder on the door, according to the lawsuit obtained by Deadline.
Laugier is not named in the suit.
According to the lawsuit, Hickson had asked Laugier and the producer, who was also not named in the suit, if it was safe to keep pounding hard on the glass.
The glass then shattered, causing Hickson’s head and upper body to fall through the door and shards of glass.
She was immediately rushed to the hospital and required 70 stitches on the left side of her face.
‘The crafts services lady held my face together with napkins in her hands,’ Hickson told Deadline. ‘She went through so many napkins, there was so much blood.’
Photos of her horrific injury show her face bloodied with a large gaping slash that runs from her chin to her cheek.
The photos also show some bruising but that was actually prosthetics and makeup for the scene.
Since the accident, the actress has had laser and silicone treatments to repair the damage to her face. She told Deadline that she is left with ‘mass amounts of insecurity’.
She was immediately rushed to the hospital and required 70 stitches on the left side of her face. In the lawsuit, Hickson (left and right after the injury) claims the injury has left her with a loss of income for future projects
‘Over one year post-incident, (Hickson) has been left with permanent scarring on the left side of her face,’ the suit reads.
‘It is unknown at this time if any further treatment, including plastic surgery, would reduce the visual appearance of the injury.’
In the lawsuit, Hickson claims the injury has left her with a loss of income for future projects.
Ironically, the film’s poster shows the actress with a disfigured face.
Ghostland will be released in France next week.