Gerard Butler: 'I'll be careful with film roles after surf accident' (Digital Spy)

Published Sunday, Jan 8 2012, 6:00pm EST | By Daniel Sperling |

 

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Gerard Butler has said that he will "be a little more careful" about future roles after his surfing accident while filming On Men and Mavericks.

The 42-year-old was hospitalized in December when a wave knocked him over and dragged him across a reef on location in California.

"Many times I've found myself in positions I shouldn't be in. I was underwater for a long time and I remember thinking, 'This is crazy'," he recalled to The Mirror.

"I don't mind taking bumps and bruises but then you think, 'Hang on a minute, this is my life!' I should be a little more careful when I'm choosing my roles... I'd still like to be around in a few years!"

Butler previously insisted that reports of his accident "were not exaggerated", describing it as a genuinely "close call".

Of Men and Mavericks opens in US cinemas on October 26, 2012.

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Gerard Butler at Coriolanus Screening. Looks mighty fine. (Just Jared)

Thu, 05 January 2012 at 2:50 pm

Gerard Butler suits up for a special screening of his new film, Coriolanus, on Thursday (January 5) at The Curzon Mayfair in London, England.

The 42-year-old Scottish stud stars as Tullus Aufidius in the drama/thriller, which centers around “a banished hero of Rome [who] allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.”

Ralph Fiennes co-stars in the movie, which he also directed. Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brian Cox round out the cast.

Last month, Gerard spent time recovering from a scary surfing incident while he was filming his other movie, Of Men and Mavericks, in Northern California.

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Gerard Butler survives surfing (15 minutes)

World mourns almost loss of actor

Posted 21 December 2011 12:07 am

 

THE CELEBRITY world is reeling from news that actor Gerard Butler has been saved from a near-death experience while filming a surf movie. Butler – lantern-jawed star of homoerotic CGI Greek-fest 300 – had been shooting an open-ocean action scene on Sunday when he was knocked off his surfboard by the series of large waves that are the better actors in his most recent film, Of Men and Mavericks.



Butler was pulled underwater and dragged across a rocky reef by the force of the “mavericks” – treacherous waves triggered by a notoriously unpredictable tidal break off the coast of northern California. The accident came out of the blue. US film-makers are now celebrating their first brush with irony.

The Scottish actor had been following in the footstraps of whitewater dilettantes Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze when he met his untimely non-end. Cinema fans are only just beginning to come to terms with his survival. Butler – who plays the character of salty ocean-going veteran Jay Moriarty, possibly Sherlock Holmes’s surfing nemesis – was eventually plucked from the sea by a lifeguard and transported to A&E, dazed but not seriously injured.

“[He] had that 100-yard stare that surfers get after a two-wave hold-down or near-death experience,” sources [may have] told ESPN. Drafted in for filming, proper surfer Zach Wormhoudt added that the waves had appeared out of nowhere. See above.

Unusual underwater rock formations at Mavericks, off the coast of Pillar Point, can lead to the unusual break, which after particularly Pacific strong storms can produce cresting waves of up to 25ft in height.

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Gerard Butler was shot whle filming "Machine Gun Preacher"

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28 October 2011 06:47:55 AM

 

Gerard Butler was hit so badly by a pellet while shooting 'Machine Gun Preacher' that filming had to be stopped.

Gerard Butler was shot in the face twice whilst filming 'Machine Gun Preacher'

The 41-year-old actor - who plays the lead role of Sam Childers in the real-life story - revealed that during filming of the new Marc Forster directed-film, he was shot in the face two times with a pellet.
He said: "I got shot twice filming Machine Gun Preacher. We were doing a big shootout and a pellet caught my eyebrow. I bled so bad that we stopped filming. Ten minutes later on the next shoot it happened again, in exactly the same bloody place."

Gerard's latest role follows the true tale of a man who turns his back on a violent past to became a machine gun clad liberator of refugee children in Africa.

Much like his latest character, Gerard started out as a bad boy too.

He told Empire magazine: "When I was younger I got chucked in prison a couple of times. I was a wild child, travelling the US, drink-driving and breaching the peace. I went from being incredibly self-destructive, struggling to find my place in life, to acting and getting my s**t together."
'Machine Gun Preacher' is due to hit the big screen on November 4th.