Scottish actor, Gerard Butler, has recounts an accident where he applied acid to his face during filming.
Butler, 53, during an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Thursday 12th January revealed an accident that occurred while filming a scene as a pilot where he accidentally burned his eyes, nose, and throat with phosphoric acid.
“No matter what I’m doing, I manage to hurt myself,” Butler joked to Seth Meyers, before agreeing with the host that he was “naturally clumsy.”
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He also shared that the incident happened when he was “attempting to locate an issue with the plane before takeoff in a final sequence.
He said:
“Now I’m sticking my hand between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing.
“Every time I bring my hands out, they’re covered in blood and green fluid, right? And I’m like, ‘I don’t know what this green fluid is.’
“I’m rubbing my face 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.
“It turns out that this is essentially phosphoric acid.”
As the scene was being filmed, real-life airline pilots watching the scene were in apparent distress, and the crew was discussing whether to douse Butler’s face with water. “I was literally burning alive,” he described the incident as intense.
Thankfully, the star recovered, despite the burning sensation lasting for several hours. He jokingly added that it “was great for the sequence.
This is not the first on-set injury for Butler, as he previously revealed that he had been hospitalized three times in 2017 alone, five years ago.
During his conversation with Meyers, the 49-year-old host, Butler disclosed his love for risky behavior, revealing that he had self-injected bee venom twice as a treatment for inflammation. This revelation was made in the same context when he discussed his motorcycle accident that occurred in Los Angeles.
Butler has also had a near-death experience in 2012 while filming the surf movie “Of Men and Mavericks” in Northern California, where he was pulled underwater and dragged over a reef in a surfing accident.