On the subject of film stars doing their very own stunts, Tom Cruise is often the primary one that involves thoughts. His death-defying acts are the stuff of legend, however he is not the one one on the market keen to place their life on the road for the sake of our leisure. Motion famous person Jason Statham is one other actor who does nearly all of his personal stunt work, and whereas he is managed to stroll away unscathed most occasions, there was one specific incident that nearly killed him.
The second got here whereas Statham was filming The Expendables 3, the 2014 motion sequel that additionally starred the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Terry Crews, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Speak about an unbelievable ensemble, proper? Taking in $214 million on the field workplace, the movie wasn’t as properly obtained because the earlier two, however it was nonetheless a very good popcorn flick.
At one level, Statham was alleged to drive a three-ton truck at a excessive fee of velocity, and brake earlier than the automobile plunged into the Black Sea. It was a reasonably simple maneuver, particularly when you think about that the star has a background in aggressive racing and will most likely carry out it along with his eyes closed. That being stated, the brakes on the truck failed in the course of the stunt, which brought about it to fall 60 ft into the water with Statham nonetheless strapped behind the wheel. Because it started to sink, Statham needed to act quick to keep away from drowning.
How Did Jason Statham Escape the Truck?
If it had been a traditional man in a traditional truck, likelihood is slim that they’d have been capable of escape in time earlier than their lungs started to tackle water. Statham isn’t any extraordinary man, although, and this was no extraordinary truck. Talking with The Mirror UK in the course of the premiere of The Expendables 3, Stallone was requested to touch upon the stunt, and defined that the automobile had one all vital characteristic faraway from it:
“Fortunately we had taken the doorways off earlier than. If anybody else had been in that truck we might have been lifeless as a result of we had been all sporting heavy boots and gun belts. We might have drowned. However as a result of Jason is an Olympic-quality diver he bought out of it.”
Showing on The Tonight Present with Jay Leno, Crews additional defined what went incorrect from his viewpoint, mentioning that he and some others had been alleged to be on the again of the truck, however had been as an alternative “sipping smoothies” whereas Statham was doing a run by way of. “There was a giant accident on the set of Expendables 3 the place Statham bought in a truck and the brakes went out, and he went off the dock into the Black Sea,” Crews stated, including:
“Rapidly, bubbles come up. He bought himself out of the truck beneath the water. I am like, this dude’s going to the hospital, he is achieved.”
Surprisingly sufficient, Crews continued to say that Statham did not want medical consideration in any respect, however as an alternative simply modified his garments and saved filming. “I needed to re-evaluate my robust card after that,” he joked. “Let me inform you one thing, Jason Statham is a real dangerous, dangerous dude.”
It is all half and parcel with being an enormous motion star, and for his half, Statham disregarded the entire incident as no huge deal by telling reporters in a while that the most important harm he sustained on the set of The Expendables 3 was when he “snapped a shoelace within the very first scene.” What a man.
The Expendables 3 is now streaming on Peacock.