Fringe star Joshua Jackson nose some pain

Joshua Jackson has revealed he had to go to hospital after shooting a torture scene for TV show Fringe.

The former Dawson's Creek star plays Peter Bishop in the sci-fi series - who has to undergo various bizarre experiments - and revealed he hurt himself filming a scene involving a wire being stuck up his nose.

"They didn't even use the take because there was blood coming out of my nose, and it didn't fit into the scene," he said. "I was strapped onto a table, and we stuck a copper wire up my nose with a rubber protector, but that popped off during the scene in the midst of all the craziness, so it tore my sinus. It felt like someone taking a steel wheel to the back of your eyeball."

He continued: "It sounds dramatic, but it was more comedic than anything else. They didn't rush me to hospital straight away. My brother, Jonathan, a New York paramedic, was astonished. I had to get the doctor to write me a note, saying that I couldn't stick any foreign objects up my nose. It's my favourite doctor's note ever."

Fringe returns on Sky1 and Sky1 HD on Sunday, March 22.

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