7 Things You Likely Didn’t Know About ‘The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas’

4. Burt Reynolds Was Injured From Lifting Dolly Parton

It isn’t unusual for an actor to suffer an injury on set, but you usually think of such instances happening in the case of action movies with lots of stunts. Well, it turns out that Reynolds suffered a pretty painful injury while filming The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas…and all because he picked up Parton!

The scene in question takes place at the end, when Ed Earl lifts up Miss Mona. Something went wrong when Reynolds went to pick Parton up, and he ended up with a double hernia. Ouch!