‘Every day someone went to the hospital’: Gerard Butler talks about the chaos of filming 300

Gerard Butler revealed that the actors were injured every day on the set of the film ‘300’.

The 55-year-old actor starred as Leonidas, King of Sparta, in Zack Snyder’s 2006 historical action film, and he today revealed several members of the crew had been flown to the hospital during filming. He also said a man was hit in the eye with a spear.

Speaking to O’Shea Jackson Jr. to promote “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” for PEOPLE, he recalled: “I remember every day someone was taken to the hospital. You were fighting, you turned around, there was a guy down there, a spear had been stuck in his eye Another time, you turn around, there’s a guy down there who just fell. , he broke his ankle. It was crazy.”

Separately, Gerard claimed he almost drowned while filming “Chasing Mavericks” in 2012, after being swept away by strong waves.

He remembers: “I thought I was finished. They had to take me out of there, take me to the hospital, give me a defibrillator. It was intense.”

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