Tom Hanks was about to die while filming his 2000 survival film Cast Away, had a frightening experience where he was badly injured.

During an exclusive interview with BBC in 2009, Hanks, who played the role of Chuck, a FedEx employee stranded on an island for five years following a plane crash in the  Cast Away, recounted a harrowing experience.

The Forrest Gump actor described it as feeling like he had been poisoned, and the severity of the situation nearly led to his death.

Hanks said, "[Cast Away] put me in the hospital, I was there for three days with something that, believe it or not, almost killed me.

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He went on to say, "I got an infection from a cut and it was eating its way through my leg. I didn't know it, I just thought I had a sore."

The 67-year-old actor stayed in the hospital at that time for three days to get treatment for the cut that got infected.

Hanks also told, "I went to the doctor who took one look and said, 'I have to put you in the hospital because we have to get this infection out of you before it poisons your blood and you die."