Gerard Butler has revealed he unintentionally burned his face with phosphoric acid whereas filming Airplane.
The actor, who stars in as pilot Brodie Torrance within the new thriller, advised Seth Meyers on Late Evening with Seth Meyers {that a} scene wherein he’s making an attempt to restore a brake earlier than takeoff noticed the incident happen.
“It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, I handle to harm myself,” the actor started.
“Now I’m sticking my hand in between these two wheels, form of pretending that I do know what I’m doing. Each time I deliver my arms out, they’re coated in blood and inexperienced fluid, proper? And I’m like, ‘I don’t know what this inexperienced fluid is.’”
Butler added that it was filmed on a sizzling day in Puerto Rico which meant that the actor was sweating profusely.
“I’m rubbing my face and, all of the sudden, it’s in my throat. It’s in my mouth. It’s up my nostril. It’s in my eyes,” Butler advised Meyers. “It’s burning my face, and I imply burning.”
“It seems that is primarily phosphoric acid,” he continued. “And the airline pilots that had been there watching go, ‘No!’
“I’m simply, like, burning alive… So it was intense. It truly burned for hours, however it was nice for the sequence.”
Gerard Butler had recalled an incident in 2021 wherein he injured three folks in a day on set for CopShop.
“I used to be preventing one stunt man and he smacked his head on the lockers and his head cut up open, simply due to the place it was,” Butler advised Metro earlier than describing the bloody aftermath of the encounter.
The second incident concerned one other stuntman splitting his head open, this time shifting to dodge Butler’s assault and bashing his head on a pillar.
Lastly, the star unintentionally shot his co-star Ryan O’Nan within the abdomen with a stun gun.