The accident severed his spinal cord, broke both his shoulder blades, shattered both his legs, left him with third-degree burns and he needed urgent high-risk surgery. Just as he was due to come out of hospital, Amanda was offered the starring role in action thriller Desperate Measures, which would mean filming in Budapest for seven weeks - he insisted she take the job. Asked for the secret to his positivity, he said it was all about living in the moment