Gerard Butler On Filming ‘300’: “Every Day Somebody Was Getting Taken To The Hospital”

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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. I mean, it was intense.” Other filming incidents Butler was involved in were scarring Hilary Swank while working on 2017’s P.S.