United Kingdom, Nov. 24 -- Ted Danson had a near-death experience from glitter on the set of A Man on the Inside.

The 77-year-old star's mouth was open as a young co-star hurled a "huge handful"of the decorative item "right in the middle of my face" for a glitter-bombing scene in season two, episode four of the Netflix comedy series.

Ted - who plays retired professor Charles Nieuwendyk - recalled to Collider.com: "I made this idiot mistake. The first time we had it, some student runs up, and I think it maybe was one of his first days at work ever as an actor.

"And he was timid, throwing it in my face, and it kind of went in my hair and missed my face, and we had to do it again, and I said, 'Just really throw it right in the middle of m...