In 2006, Gerard Butler starred in a very well-known epic film available on Netflix. And the filming was not easy! The actor opens up about the numerous accidents that occurred on set.
In 2006, Zack Snyder and Gerard Butler rewrote history. In the movie 300the director wanted to tell the story, largely rewritten for fiction, of the Battle of Thermopylae, which took place in -480 BCE. Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas of Sparta. Nine years after his coronation, he learned that the Persian king Xerxes wanted to invade Greece. Leonidas decides to take the lead and, with 300 of his best soldiers, sets off to meet Xerxes to fight him in the rocky passage of Thermopylae. In the film available on Netflix, absolutely legendary battle scenes ensue. And according to the main actor, this part of the film was very difficult to shoot. In an interview given to Peoplethe 55-year-old British actor remembers the very strange atmosphere of the shoot.
The filming of 300 was painful for the actors according to Gerard Butler
“Every day, someone ended up in the hospital, says Gerard Butler. We were filming a fight, we turned around and there was a guy with a spear in his eye. Another time we turned around and this time another guy had fallen and broken his ankle. It was completely crazy.”. The actor himself claims to have been injured while filming 300without detailing the extent of his injuries, or whether he still has scars or after-effects. It must be said that Gerard Butler has made a string of dangerous action films.
After 300Gerard Butler experienced other very violent shootings
In 2007, just after 300Gerard Butler toured with Pierce Brosnan in Blackmailby Mike Barker. Both actors had to fake car accidents in this film. Pierce Brosnan “led straight into the wall”. “The car was supposed to stop because he had to press the brake all the way down. We still drove into a one meter high wall, at full speed, and that was after 300. I had already taken a beating at 300.” Gerard Butler also says he thought he died on the set of Chasing Mavericks in 2012 while he was filming a scene in the water and was hit by an avalanche of waves: “They had to take me out of there, take me to the hospital, use a defibrillator. It was very intense.”
-Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
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