ActorGerard Butleris best known for his work in movies like300,Law Abiding Citizen,Olympus Has Fallen, andGreenland. As the star continues to crank out new flicks, Butler recently revealed that he suffered from an accident while filming his new action thriller,Plane. The actor recalled the mishap during an interview onLate Night with Seth Meyers, stating that he’d accidentally burned his face and hands with phosphoric acid during filming forPlane.
Butler’s new movie,Plane, is an action thriller that sees the star playing a pilot named Brodie Torrance, who is forced to land his aircraft in a warzone during a storm. The Jean-François Richet-directed film also stars Mike Colter as convicted murderer Louis Gaspare. The trailer forPlanehas already made it known that in the movie, Butler and Colter’s characters team up after the other passengers on the plane are taken hostage by a group of local militants.
In addition to Butler and Colter, the action thriller also stars Daniella Pineda, Lilly Krug, Tony Goldwyn, Remi Adeleke, Paul Ben-Victor, Tara Westwood, Joey Slotnick, Kate Rachesky, Yoson An, and Kelly Gale.Planewas written by Charles Cumming and J.P. Davis.
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Washing Off the Acid Only Made Things Worse
During his interview with Seth Meyer, Butler revealed that while filming a scene for the movie, he’d somehow gotten acid on his hands while pretending to fix a part of the plane. The acid got on his face, and some of it went down his throat. The star added that the crew tried to assist him by washing the acid off with water, which only worsened the problem.
He said, “It was on the scene where I’m trying to find something that’s wrong with the plane before we can take off for this final sequence. And it’s something in the wheel, so it’s a brake. Now I’m sticking my hand between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing. Whatever is in there – every time I bring my hands out they’re covered in blood and green fluid. I don’t know what this green fluid is. We’re also shooting in Puerto Rico so I’m covered in sweat. And the adrenaline, the nose is running, everything, and I guess especially with COVID, you realize why this thing spreads because I must have been rubbing my face.”
Butler continued, “And suddenly it’s in my throat, it’s in my mouth, it’s up my nose, it’s in my eyes. It’s burning my face, and I mean burning. And it turns out this is essentially phosphoric acid. And the airline pilots that were there watching go, ‘No!’ They’re trying to put water on my face. ‘Don’t put water. It’ll make it worse!’ And I’m just like burning alive, so it was intense. And it actually burned for hours, but it was great for the sequence.”
