Gerard Butler has said that he accidently rubbed acid onto his face while filming the new film Plane.
In the survival thriller, the 300 actor plays pilot Brodie Torrance, who safely crash-lands a damaged jet on a secluded island in the Philippines.
However, Brodie and the passengers are kidnapped by an anti-government militia group who demands a large ransom from their families in order to assure their safety.
The Tommorrow Never Dies actress, 53, came on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Friday to discuss the new film, which also stars Mike Colter and Yoson An.
Seth, 49, inquired about Gerard’s injuries while filming Plane, to which the Dracula 2000 actor answered, ‘No matter what I’m doing, I manage to damage myself,’ admitting he was ‘naturally clumsy.’
‘I’m trying to find something wrong with the plane before we take off for this final sequence,’ he continued.
‘Now I’m sticking my hand between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing.
‘Every time I bring my hands out, they’re covered in blood and green fluid, right? And I’m like, “I don’t know what this green fluid is.”‘
The Phantom of the Opera star stated that they were filming in Puerto Rico and that the sweltering heat caused him to wipe sweat from his brow regularly.
Gerard went on: ‘I’m rubbing my face and, suddenly, it’s in my throat. It’s in my mouth. It’s up my nose. It’s in my eyes. It’s burning my face — and I mean burning.
‘It turns out that this is essentially phosphoric acid. And I’m just, like, burning alive. It was intense.’
‘It burned for hours,’ Gerard added, before laughing: ‘But it was great for the sequence.’
It’s not the first time Gerard has been linked to an on-set mishap in recent years; he previously admitted to Metro.co.uk that he caused complete pandemonium on the set of CopShop.
‘I do lot of action and I rarely, rarely, rarely hurt anybody but I was fighting one stunt guy and he smacked his head on the lockers and his head split open, just because of where it was,’ the Hollywood legend admitted. He’s a friend of mine, by the way, and I’ve worked with him before, and he was totally cool about it but it was just so much blood coming out.
‘And then I was fighting another stunt guy and I didn’t actually touch him but he had to move his head and he hit it against a pillar – his head split open! And then I had to shoot somebody with a stun gun, Ryan O’Nan. And Ryan, for another role, has quite a big belly – he had to put on quite a lot of weight for that. So the pad – because these things have spikes in them – the pad came up and his belly was sticking out and I shot him!
‘It’s in the middle of it, I’m doing a lot of different stuff to him, so I’m just thinking he’s going, “Argh!” and he’s crawling away which he’s supposed to do and we finished the take and he’s like, “The spike is stuck in me!”‘
‘That all happened in one day, at which point, that’s when I started to think about retiring,’ he reflected.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs on NBC in the US.