Gerard Butler describes ‘burning alive’ after mishap on set of movie ‘Plane’

Gerard Butler has revealed a terrifying ordeal while filming his latest blockbuster, describing an “intense” accident where he felt like he was “burning alive”.

Gerard Butler has revealed his terrifying on-set ordeal on his latest film, Plane.

Gerard Butler has revealed his horror, on-set scare while filming his latest movie.

The Scottish actor, 53, described how he accidentally rubbed acid on his face and felt like he was “burning alive” during shooting for the upcoming action flick, Plane.

Butler explained on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers that in the scene in which he burned himself, he was pretending to be assessing what was wrong with an aeroplane so that it could take off again, Fox News reports.

“It’s something in the wheel, so it’s a brake,” he said. “Now, I’m sticking my hand between these two wheels, kind of pretending that I know what I’m doing in there, you know?”

Gerard Butler narrowly avoided serious injury on the set of his latest film. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Butler said that every time he brought his hands out from between the wheels, they were covered in blood and green fluid: “And I don’t know what this green fluid is.”

They were shooting in Puerto Rico, the actor said, explaining that he was sweating from the heat and the adrenaline of shooting the scene.

“With Covid, you realise how this thing [virus] spreads,” he said.

“I must have been … I’m rubbing my face. 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. And it turns out this is essentially phosphoric acid,” Butler said to gasps from the audience.

The airline pilots who were consulting on the set were screaming “No!” and there was confusion over how to treat the burns, he told Meyers.

Butler described putting ‘acid’ on his face during filming of his new movie, Plane.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends immediately flushing the area with water.

“So, I’m just like burning alive. It was intense, and it actually burned for hours, but it was great for the scene,” Butler laughed.

Meyers joked that knowing what he does about Covid protocols on sets, “There were probably 10 people there making sure nobody gave each other Covid and not one person keeping you from putting acid on your face.”

Plane hits cinemas in Australia on January 26.

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