Gerard Butler says he is no stranger to getting harm on film units — however what went down on the set of Plane is likely to be his worst harm thus far.
“No matter what I’m doing, I manage to hurt myself,” Butler admitted on a current episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers.
While engaged on Plane in Puerto Rico, Gerard revealed that he ended up with burns from phosphoric acid throughout his face!
It all occurred whereas Gerard was filming a scene the place he needed to fake to repair his character’s aircraft and was working with the wheels.
“Now, I’m sticking my hand in between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing,” Gerard mentioned. “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.'”
On prime of that, it was a scorching day, so Gerard was “covered in sweat” and was always wiping his face together with his fingers.
“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,” Gerard shared. “It’s burning my face, and I mean burning.”
That’s when he found the inexperienced fluid was “essentially phosphoric acid.”
“I’m just, like, burning alive. … So, it was intense. It actually burned for hours,” Gerard mentioned.
Everyone on set rapidly stepped in to attempt to cease the burning, finally deciding to pour water throughout his face and physique.
And whereas it was fairly painful, Gerard joked that it ended up being “great for the sequence.”