Gerard Butler Details Clumsily Hurting Himself With “Acid”

According to Gerard Butler, his painful experience on the set of “Plane” is one of many accidents he had “clumsily” hurt himself.

Gerard Butler Recalls “Burning Alive” After Applying Acid On His Face

When it comes to commitment, not many people can commit to a role like Gerard Butler.

During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, he recalled his “burning” accident while filming a scene where he plays a pilot. He recalled how painful it was to have his eyes, nose and throat burn from phosphoric acid.

“No matter what I’m doing, I manage to hurt myself,” Butler jokingly said, before agreeing with host Seth Meyers that he’s “naturally clumsy.”

The actor then opened up about his latest accident, describing how he was “trying to find something that’s wrong with the plane before we can take off for this final sequence.”

“Now I’m sticking my hand between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing,” Butler said. “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.’ “

As for the location of the shooting, he recalled the scene took place in Puerto Rico, where he was “covered in sweat” from the heat.

“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,” Butler continued. “It’s burning my face — and I mean burning.”

He added, “It turns out that this is essentially phosphoric acid.”

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He said that while his face burned, real-life airline pilots watching the scene looked on in seeming panic and crew members contemplated whether to throw water on his face. “And I’m just, like, burning alive,” he said. “It was intense.”

Thankfully, he recovered, even though, according to him, he “burned for hours.” Laughing, he added: “But it was great for the sequence.”

This latest onset injury is coming five years after he admitted he had been hospitalized three times in 2017 alone.

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