Jennifer Aniston didn't have to look far for advice on her starring role in Cake as a woman who suffers from extreme chronic pain after a horrible car crash. Her stunt double of about eight years, Stacy Courtney, had survived a traumatic boat accident that nearly killed her. In 1997, Courtney was run over by a boat propeller that "chewed up my left leg," she said last night at a special screening of the movie in West Hollywood. "I almost lost my life and went through three years of chronic pain, incredible recovery [and] many surgeries." Aniston was aware of Courtney's story but not the intimate details. "I knew she had gone through a horrific, traumatic injury and that her...
- 1/8/2015
- E! Online
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