Gerard Butler details ‘burning alive’ after terrifying phosphoric acid accident on set of Plane-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Gerard Butler has spoken about accidentally rubbing acid into his face while filming new movie Plane.

The 300 actor stars as pilot Brodie Torrance in the survival thriller, who successfully crash-lands a damaged plane on a remote island in the Philippines.

But Brodie and the passengers are taken hostage by a gang of anti-government militia, who are demanding a massive ransom from their families to ensure their safety.

The Tommorrow Never Dies star, 53, appeared on Friday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers to speak about the new movie, which also stars Mike Colter and Yoson An.

Seth, 49, asked Gerard about injuring himself filming Plane, to which the Dracula 2000 actor replied: ‘No matter what I’m doing, I manage to hurt myself,’ agreeing he was ‘naturally clumsy.’

He continued: ‘I’m trying to find something that’s wrong with the plane before we can take off for this final sequence.

Gerard Butler said he wiped acid into his eyes as it was hot in Puerto Rico (Picture: WireImage)

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

‘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.”‘

The Phantom of the Opera star explained they were filming in Puerto Rico and the hot weather resulted in him frequently wiping sweat off his brow.

Gerard Butler said despite the pain it was ‘great for the sequence’ (Picture: Images)

Gerard went on: ‘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. It’s burning my face — and I mean burning.

‘It turns out that this is essentially phosphoric acid. And I’m just, like, burning alive. It was intense.’

‘It burned for hours,’ Gerard added, before laughing: ‘But it was great for the sequence.’

It’s not the first time Gerard has been associated with an accident on set in recent years, previously admitting to Metro.co.uk he caused utter chaos on the set of CopShop.

Gerard Butler won acclaim for his performance in Phantom of the Opera (Picture: Really Useful/Warner Brothers/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

The Hollywood icon confessed: ‘I do lot of action and I rarely, rarely, rarely hurt anybody but I was fighting one stunt guy and he smacked his head on the lockers and his head split open, just because of where it was. He’s a friend of mine, by the way, and I’ve worked with him before, and he was totally cool about it but it was just so much blood coming out.

‘And then I was fighting another stunt guy and I didn’t actually touch him but he had to move his head and he hit it against a pillar – his head split open! And then I had to shoot somebody with a stun gun, Ryan O’Nan. And Ryan, for another role, has quite a big belly – he had to put on quite a lot of weight for that. So the pad – because these things have spikes in them – the pad came up and his belly was sticking out and I shot him!

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‘It’s in the middle of it, I’m doing a lot of different stuff to him, so I’m just thinking he’s going, “Argh!” and he’s crawling away which he’s supposed to do and we finished the take and he’s like, “The spike is stuck in me!”‘

‘That all happened in one day, at which point, that’s when I started to think about retiring,’ he reflected.

Late Night with Seth Meyers airs on NBC in the US.

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