Gerard Butler On Filming ‘300’: “Every Day Somebody Was Getting Taken To The Hospital”
Gerard Butler recalls the difficulties of filming 300 and how many of his co-stars were being taken to the hospital due to injuries.
Butler starred as the King of Sparta in the 2006 Zack Snyder film 300, in which the actor co-starred with Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, and many more.
“I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital,” Butler told People. “You’d be doing a fight, you turn around, there’s a guy down there, a spear went in his eye. Another time, you turn around, there’s a guy over there who just fell, broke his ankle. I mean, it was insane.”
Butler also mentioned that while filming 2012’s Chasing Mavericks, he was “taken down by a huge set of waves” and “almost drowning,” adding, “I thought I was done. They had to take me out, take me to hospital, put me out, give me the defibrillator.
Butler starred as the King of Sparta in the 2006 Zack Snyder film 300, in which the actor co-starred with Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, and many more.
“I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital,” Butler told People. “You’d be doing a fight, you turn around, there’s a guy down there, a spear went in his eye. Another time, you turn around, there’s a guy over there who just fell, broke his ankle. I mean, it was insane.”
Butler also mentioned that while filming 2012’s Chasing Mavericks, he was “taken down by a huge set of waves” and “almost drowning,” adding, “I thought I was done. They had to take me out, take me to hospital, put me out, give me the defibrillator.
- 1/15/2025
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
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