Actors Steve Buscemi and Vince Vaughn and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg were involved in a bar brawl last Thursday that resulted in four arrests and nearly killed Fargo star Buscemi. The Hollywood trio are currently filming the aptly named Domestic Disturbance in Wilmington, North Carolina. Two local men allegedly picked a fight with the filmmakers when one of their girlfriends began talking to Swingers star Vaughn.

A scuffle outside the bar is reported to have taken place at 2am. Police on patrol broke up the fracas, but not before Buscemi had been stabbed above the eye and in the jaw, throat, and arm. He was taken to hospital. Vaughn was maced, according to reports. Timothy Fogerty, 21, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon for the Buscemi knifing. Another local man, 20-year-old Kenneth Purgason, was also arrested.

According to local police, the brawlers had "refused to disperse, so they all got pepper spray. In all, there were about ten involved when we got there, but the four kept fighting. Normally, we don't have any problems there". Buscemi has since returned to New York to recuperate and is consulting plastic surgeons for his wounds. "The situation could have been life-threatening," a source told America's Entertainment Weekly.