Tonight we dine in the hospital!
Gerard Butler says there were an “insane” number of injuries when filming his fan-favorite action hit 300.
The Zack Snyder film from 2006 — which marked Butler’s breakout role, playing the fearsome Spartan King Leonidas — was apparently quite war zone on set.
“I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital,” Butler told People. “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.”
Butler himself apparently walked away from 300 unscathed, though he detailed injuries he sustained on other film sets, such as nearly drowning while learning to surf for the 2012 movie Chasing Mavericks.
“I thought I was done,” the 55-year-old actor said. “They had to take me out, take me to hospital, put me out, give me the defibrillator. I mean, it was intense.”
Butler is making the rounds promoting his new action film, Lionsgate’s Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, which is proving a bit of a solid success at the box office, potentially turning Den of Thieves into a bona fide franchise.
“[A threequel is] already pitched,” director Christian Gudegast told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s already done. We’re ready to go. We’re feeling very good about it.”
Pantera opened last weekend to $15.5 million, about on par with the first film’s opening in 2018. The first Den of Thieves is currently streaming on Max.