"You Cannot Kill David Arquette" is an apt title for a documentary chronicling the actor's return to wrestling because he very nearly died while making it. At his first match –- masked, unbilled, and in Tijuana –- Arquette broke two ribs (via The Ringer). That might have scared off any other 50-year-old actor with only moderate amounts of wrestling experience, but Arquette kept at it. Then, in late 2018, he agreed to a deathmatch, which allowed weapons in the ring.
The match — which saw him face deathmatch legend Nick Gage — was captured in the documentary, and it looks as brutal as it sounds. At one point, a shard of broken glass slashed Arquette's neck. "I thought I was dying," he told The Guardian, but when he realized he hadn't punctured a jugular, Arquette decided to step back into the ring. "I wanted to put a button on the match. But, yeah, it was pretty harsh." Harsh enough for five stitches in his neck.
Arquette stills wrestles, but he's beginning to wind things down. He's won respect from fans of the sport he's loved all his life, but he's also realized that their respect wasn't what his return to wrestling was about. "I've been beating myself up for so many years ... Whatever your personal rabbit hole that you go down is, I've just learned through this process that it is about understanding yourself and believing in yourself, telling yourself that you're the greatest."
