Aaron Eckhart has starred in movies opposite Gwenyth Paltrow and Katie Holmes. In his latest film with Jessica Alba, he thought it was a good idea to stab himself in the nether regions to prepare for the part.

“I had to pretend that my nuts hurt, so I put a clothespin on my nuts,” Eckhart told Men’s Journal. “Otherwise, you’re just learning your lines and saying them. There’s no art in that. People say, ‘Why do you want to put a clothespin on your nuts?’ You know why? Because that’s what I do for a living.”

You couldn’t just have someone rack you right before you said your lines?

Source: msnbc