Krysten Ritter almost lost her tongue filming brutal second season of Jessica Jones

Actress Krysten Ritter almost bit through her tongue while shooting brutal fight scenes for season two of Jessica Jones.
The star portrays the titular action hero in Marvel’s Netflix series and the brawls she was involved in were so intense, she picked up a collection of bumps, bruises and wounds, and at one point risked becoming mute.
“I bit almost through my tongue (sic),” she tells Vulture. “Yeah, it was awful. That was in the early episodes of this season.”
Krysten explains the scary tongue-battering happened in an instant: “It was just one wrong move – a guy went to push me or pick me up and I got his shoulder under my jaw and I totally saw stars,” she recalls.
The injury was made all the more terrifying by all the blood that gushed from her mouth.
“What really f**ked me up was the blood, because I had bit my tongue so bad that I thought it was worse than it was,” the 36-year-old shares, “but your tongue heals really fast.”
Hardcore Krysten worked through the tongue slicing, revealing she returned to the set immediately.
“You couldn’t see it (the tongue injury), there was no damage to my face, so I kept working,” she laughs. “But, yeah, there’s a lot of bruises (from Jessica Jones fight scenes). A lot of bruised knees from flying around. Now I know anytime you have to do anything, just put the knee pads on. Even if it’s just, like, grabbing something that fell. Just put the knee pads on! Anything can happen!”
“I have so many photos where my elbows and knees are so bruised. I wear it like a badge of honour (sic),” she smiles.
The second season of Jessica Jones premieres on Netflix in the U.S. on Thursday (08Mar18).