Gerard Butler says he is no stranger to getting damage on film units — however what went down on the set of Airplane is perhaps his worst harm up to now.
“It doesn’t matter what I am doing, I handle to harm myself,” Butler admitted on a latest episode of Late Evening with Seth Meyers.
Whereas engaged on Airplane in Puerto Rico, Gerard revealed that he ended up with burns from phosphoric acid throughout his face!
All of it occurred whereas Gerard was filming a scene the place he needed to faux to repair his character’s aircraft and was working with the wheels.
“Now, I am sticking my hand in between these two wheels, form of pretending that I do know what I am doing,” Gerard mentioned. “Each time I deliver my fingers out, they’re coated in blood and inexperienced fluid, proper? And I am like, ‘I do not know what this inexperienced fluid is.'”
On prime of that, it was a scorching day, so Gerard was “coated in sweat” and was continuously wiping his face along with his fingers.
“I am rubbing my face, and immediately, it is in my throat. It is in my mouth. It is up my nostril. It is in my eyes,” Gerard shared. “It is burning my face, and I imply burning.”
That is when he found the inexperienced fluid was “primarily phosphoric acid.”
“I am simply, like, burning alive. … So, it was intense. It really burned for hours,” Gerard mentioned.
Everybody 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 “nice for the sequence.”
