Gerard Butler has seen his share on accidents each on and off the set, however the quantity of hospitalizations he noticed making 300 is staggering.
This … is … the emergency room! Film units could take additional precautions to make sure there are not any critical accidents, however everyone knows that accidents occur. And when you’ve an action-heavy film like 300, issues are sure to take a cliff dive.
Gerard Butler broke out in an enormous method with Zack Snyder’s 300 almost twenty years in the past (appears loopy it was again in 2006, doesn’t it?), stepping in as one of many go-to motion stars. However it didn’t come with out some missteps, as Butler suffered a pulled tendon in his arm, a pulled hip flexer and nerve harm in his leg. Fortunately for him, the majority of the accidents occurred to others. “I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital. 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.”
Whereas it feels extremely dated now, 300 felt so revolutionary on the time, particularly when it got here to the particular results and displaying the potential for comedian ebook films. His sophomore effort additionally put Zack Snyder on the map (I nonetheless suppose his debut, a remake of George A. Romero’s Daybreak of the Useless, is his finest), though it may be argued whether or not or not he lived as much as the hype that surrounded and adopted 300.
And despite the fact that he’s far faraway from King Leonidas, Gerard Butler remains to be seeing accidents that, whereas he could not at all times get them on the set, do carry into when cameras begin rolling. As he not too long ago revealed about taking pictures Den of Thieves 2, “I was not in the best shape, and it was a pretty physical movie, and I didn’t have a chance to get the surgery on my ACL, so I made this movie with a freshly torn ACL, and it was pretty rough.” Say what you need about his profession however Butler is undoubtedly a trooper.
Do you suppose 300 holds up almost 20 years after its launch?
