Poldark star Aidan Turner has put paid to his onscreen cool by revealing that he banged his head off a boat and dropped co-star Eleanor Tomlinson in the sea while filming for the second series of the hit BBC One period drama.
The Dublin actor, who is back as brooding hero Ross Poldark opposite Tomlinson's Demelza this Sunday, said a freak wave got the better of him while on location.
"There's nothing like the Cornish sea at the height of winter for putting you in your place," he told British entertainment magazine Radio Times.
"We were filming me lifting Demelza out of a boat in the actual sea when this huge wave picked up the boat and slammed it into my head. I dropped her in the water - not very Ross Poldark.
"And nobody was coming to see if I'm OK. I was the man injured..." he joked.
An underwater cameraman also sustained a concussion in the accident.
"These waves, you wouldn't think there's anything to them, but once you get out there you're at the mercy of Mother Nature and she doesn't care how well the previous season rated," Turner added.
The finale of the first season saw Poldark arrested for murder as he and wife Demelza faced the devastation of losing their child. But Turner has warned fans that they shouldn't expect much in the way of happiness in series two.
"You'd think at the end of season one it can't get any worse for these guys," he said.
"Ross's company's bankrupt, they're completely broke and they've just lost their child.
"But it just slowly does get worse...There's prison... all sorts. But Ross is more comfortable when he doesn't share with anybody, he just takes the burden and the responsibility all himself."
