Actor Gerard Butler has opened out about how he sent co-star Hilary Swank to the hospital by accident while filming PS I Love You.
The legendary romantic comedy debuted in theatres in 2007, and the two played opposite one another.
In retrospect, the action hero admitted on The Drew Barrymore Show that things were less romantic than they seemed onscreen.
“She’s so cool and so lovely to work that I almost killed her,” the 53-year-old said, laughing. ‘The scene where I’m dancing and I have the suspenders – I literally shot that scene for a day and a half and I had to dance like an idiot in the suspenders. the actor said.
‘At one point, the clip, which was a crocodile clip, got stuck in the television as I’m crawling towards her and she’s right in front of me, and she’s laughing hysterically
‘The camera people had these plastic fronts to protect themselves from this [crocodile clip], it was so dangerous.’
When pressed for more details, he admitted, “I had to ping it, and it would travel past my face.” This was the precise moment everything went tragically wrong. The bed gets stuck this time as I’m creeping towards it.
“As soon as I let go, it flies over my head and cuts her across the forehead. I slashed her in two.
The ambulance has to transport her to the emergency room immediately. Just picture the studio emptying out in three seconds and me sitting there with nothing but boxer shorts, boots, and socks.
The tears were flowing, and I sobbed, “I just scarred Hilary Swank! This is what I have to show for the two days I made a fool of myself and nearly put out her eye. The lady is leaving for the emergency room. “There is no one in the studio at this time.
A classic case of “imposter syndrome,” as they say.
Seriously painful!
While filming his next movie Plane, Gerard suffered a concussion while doing a stunt that didn’t go as planned.
While discussing the film’s upcoming release, the subject of disastrous on-set moments inevitably came up.
The star of 300 has admitted that a particularly gory scene made it into the final cut.
‘I had to do this silly stunt. Basically, I’m walking along the plane, the plane is shaking – this is when I’m in the back of the plane and I’ve gone to check on the passengers,’ he told us.
‘There’s one bit that I’m supposed to hit but I’ve just got to walk along and the plane is shaking, and then I have to pretend to be thrown. It’s like, “Make your head hit up there on the overhead compartments and hit the side of it. You’ve just got to hit this little bit here, but you can’t look because you can’t make it obvious.”
‘I’m walking along and the first [take] I did, I didn’t really hit it right. So, the second one I’m like, “Okay, I’m just going for this.” I walk along, I fly up, basically headbutt the thing, miss the soft part and split my head open.’
‘That’s the one they used, because it looked real,’ he continued. ‘I did whack my head on this thing.
‘That was a tough stunt. Sometimes, the easiest looking stunts are actually the most difficult and they’re just not fun. “Make that look natural, you can’t look and then you’ve got to go there and whack your head against this thing, but make it look like it was an accident”.’