We're all familiar with the terrified look on Hans Gruber's face as he's dropped from Nakatomi Plaza by the inexhaustible John McClane in Die Hard, but what you might not know is that Rickman's terror was at least a little genuine. Rickman was performing his own stunt, and was going to get dropped from a height of around 25 feet on the count of three—but director John McTiernan decided to drop him on the count of two instead. Understandably fearing for his life after the stunt had potentially gone wrong, Rickman's surprise is pretty serious.