Gerard Butlersays his experience on300was not without its battle wounds.
“I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital,” Butler claims. “You’d be doing a fight, you turn around, there’s a guy down there, a spear went in his eye. Another time, you turn around, there’s a guy over there who just fell, broke his ankle. I mean, it was insane.”
“I thought I was done. They had to take me out, take me to hospital, put me out, give me the defibrillator. I mean, it was intense,” the actor recalled.
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Gerard Butler in300(2006).Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures/Kobal/Shutterstock
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He also said he has “been in car smashes” with “James Bondhimself,“Pierce Brosnan, “who drove me straight into a wall.”
“And this thing was supposed to stop as he was supposed to slam the brakes,” Butler continued. “We hit a wall on a rooftop, 3-foot-high wall, full speed, in a Range Rover. It destroyed my neck, and it was after300. I was already so beaten up in300.”
“And I spent a day filming in the Icelandic Sea, got basically hypothermia there, overheat(ed) once in Montreal doing a movie,” he went on of otherailments he endured while on the job. “They put wetsuits on us, but then we had to put our whole costume on, and it was 110 degrees. And we were in that all day … and we’re still having to perform so many things.”
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The actor also had mishaps with costarsHilary Swank, whom he starred with in 2007’sP.S. I Love You, andAngelina Jolie, his costar inLara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life(2003).
And despite the fact that he says he’s “been rushed to hospital” as a result of acting-related injuries, Butler tells Jackson, 33, of the stunt work, “It’s awesome. I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
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