Romantic Comedies: They Shouldn’t Be Dangerous! That’s not it Tom Cruise driving a motorcycle of a European cliff so you can upgrade to a base jump. It’s Sandra Bullock who has a nice encounter with Keanu Reeves, or Julia Roberts who falls in love with Hugh Grant in a Notting Hill bookshop. This is what the list does best romantic comedies always. However, Gerard Butler will tell you a story about when he almost killed Hilary Swank while both were working on a romantic comedy, proving that sometimes blood has to be shed to win the heart of a loved one.
the film in question is PS I love you, an otherwise forgettable 2007 romantic comedy. Gerard Butler plays a recently deceased man who has left a series of letters for her widow (Hilary Swank) to find, helping her through her grief. A very sweet premise. But as he appears in The Drew Barrymore Show to promote his action thriller Airplane, told the story of a scene that went horribly wrong, sending Swank to the hospital. Butler said:
She’s so beautiful, and so good to work with, that I nearly killed her. The scene where I’m dancing and I have – what do you call them? – straps. And I literally filmed this scene for a day and a half. I must have danced like an idiot with braces.
I searched online for the clip in question and found one of Gerard Butler in braces, but there was no dancing. He also seemed relatively harmless, which isn’t how I remembered him. He went on to tell Drew Barrymore:
And then at one point the clamp, which was an alligator clip, got stuck on the TV as I was crawling towards it. She’s right in front of me and she’s laughing hysterically. This thing… the cameramen had these plastic masks to protect themselves from this crocodile, it was so dangerous. Because I had to cut and it was going right through my face. And this time, I crawl towards the bed. It blocks. It comes off, flies over my head, hits him on the head, cuts off his head. I opened it. You may also see teeth. [of the clip]. She has to be taken to the hospital.
Brutal. Completely involuntary! But it’s still brutal. The movie didn’t really suffer from the devastation. We gave PS I love you a decent grade in our official review . And Butler continued to make films, many of them are available to stream now (although some of them you may want to avoid). At the time, however, Gerard Butler thought he was finished. He concluded to Barrymore, making her laugh out loud:
I’m sitting there in my Irish shorts and boots and a pair of socks. And I started crying. “Just tagged Hilary Swank, almost gouged out her eye. And I fooled myself for two days. And that’s all I have to show! She goes to the hospital.
Making movies is very difficult, folks. And sometimes dangerous, even the ones you don’t think about. Gerard Butler shared more chilling stories from their time filming Airplane an action thriller that is alleged to cause bodily harm, at least second the movie trailer . Then there was this time the actor ate raw chicken on a movie set. Never say Butler can’t be Method. But in this case, an accident caused a damn Hilary Swank, and Butler had a terrifying story to tell on daytime television.
Source: Cinemablend
