Gerard Butler Says He Was 'Burning Alive' After Accidentally Rubbing Acid on His Face While Filming



Digital News Writer, PEOPLE

Gerard Butler genuinely devoted to his caller presumption successful Plane.

The Scottish actor, 53, recovered retired connected Late Night with Seth Meyers Thursday that, whilst filming a country wherein helium performs a aviator successful the caller movie, helium by accidental burned his eyes, chemoreceptor and pharynx with phosphoric acid.

"No number fig what I'm doing, I manipulate to wounded myself," Butler joked to Seth Meyers, earlier than agreeing with the big that helium became "naturally clumsy."

The histrion past described his modern harm, astatine immoderate signifier successful a country wherein helium changed into "looking for immoderate happening it genuinely is incorrect with the level earlier than we tin instrumentality disconnected for this last series," helium recalled.

"Now I'm sticking my manus among these wheels, benignant of pretending that I recognise what I'm doing," Butler said. "Every clip I convey my hands out, they're blanketed successful humor and greenish fluid, proper? And I'm like, 'I don't cognize what this greenish fluid is.' "

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The three hundred megastar past brought that they had been shooting successful Puerto Rico, wherein helium became "protected successful sweat" from the warmth.

"I'm rubbing my look and, each of sudden, it's successful my throat. It's successful my mouth. It's up my nose. It's successful my eyes," Butler persisted. "It's burning my look — and I connote burning."

He delivered, "It seems that this is mostly phosphoric acid."

And whilst real-life hose pilots looking the country appeared connected successful seeming panic, Butler said unit individuals deliberated whether to propulsion h2o connected his face. "And I'm just, like, burning alive," helium said. "It was excessive."

The megastar thankfully recovered, contempt the information that helium brought that it "burned for hours" — "But it changed into fantabulous for the sequence," helium said with a laugh.

Butler's modern-day on-set harm comes 5 years after, successful 2017, helium admitted helium person been hospitalized 3 times that yr connected my own.

Around the clip helium became injured successful a motorcycle twist of fate successful Los Angeles, Butler revealed to Meyers, 49, that he's a instrumentality of volatile behavior, oregon adjacent injected himself with bee venom — 2 times! — successful an effort to woody with a fewer achy infection.

Butler besides suffered a adjacent to-death surfing twist of fate successful 2012, successful which helium was pulled underwater and dragged implicit a reef successful Northern California adjacent arsenic filming the surf movie Of Men and Mavericks.

"I was going to spell backmost that day," the large sanction said connected the U.K.'s The Graham Norton Show about his emotion of the game. "I became perfectly successful the ambulance and wanted to caput little back, which changed into a interaction crazy, but it's beauteous addictive."

Plane is successful theaters now.