There are every kind of thrilling upcoming 2025 motion pictures I’m trying ahead to as we quickly enter the second half of the yr, however because the Now You See Me motion pictures arrived for these with a Netflix subscription I’ve been getting extra amped for the third film, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Once I caught the trailer this week, I wasn’t anticipating it to name again to a harmful stunt from the unique movie. I want to speak about it.
That Time Isla Fisher Nearly Died Filming Now You See Me
Have you ever heard the story from Now You See Me relating to the water tank scene? Effectively, I used to be lately reminded of the story behind it after I got here throughout an outdated interview on Instagram. Right here’s what Isla Fisher instructed On Demand Leisure when she was on the Now You See Me press tour:
I had a near-death expertise. My character was submerged in a tank and piranhas had been dropped upon her head. And while in there, we shot it over three and a half days, although I had a quick-release magnetic factor on my handcuffs, the chain that went between my ankles and my wrist was not in a position to be damaged and it bought caught beneath this slat, and I used to be trapped.
As it’s possible you’ll recall, early within the 2013 film, Isla Fisher’s magician character of Henley Reeves performs an escapist act the place she makes an attempt to get out of being handcuffed in a water tank in below a minute earlier than piranhas are unleashed on her. In the course of the scene, Fisher fakes out the viewers by pretending there’s an issue and banging on the glass. Right here’s what occurred when Fisher actually felt trapped within the tank in her phrases:
I used to be very scared. And I used to be banging and saying ‘Set me free!’ However everybody simply thought I used to be doing fabulous performing. They thought I used to be being Meryl Streep within the tank. Really I used to be drowning. All I used to be occupied with was me on the post-mortem desk bloated in a swimming costume, with heels and the way humiliating that might be.
I can’t even think about! There’s been a number of actors who’ve incidents whereas filming motion pictures, however this one is particularly scary as a result of she really might have died if the crew by no means caught on that she wasn’t performing, however actually wanted assist.
So Why Does Now You See Me 3 Have A Water Tank Scene, Too?
That brings me to what we find out about Now You See Me 3, which is formally referred to as Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. The film’s first trailer dropped in late April to introduce what to anticipate, which is the return of The 4 Horsemen, consisting of Jesse Eisenberg’s J. Daniel Atlas, Woody Harrelson’s Merritt McKinney, Isla Fisher’s Henley Reeves and Dave Franco’s Jack Wilder.
This time they’ll be teaming up with a youthful group of magicians performed by Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt for a heist involving the world’s largest queen diamond from a household crime syndicate. Try the trailer under:
For those who look carefully at round two minutes, you’ll see that there’s a scene being previewed the place not solely Henley, however all of the Horsemen are dropped right into a water tank and one shot calls again to the unique with Fisher’s character banging on the glass. The trailer reveals that the 4 Horseman undoubtedly finds a approach out of the tank in some way, however I’m so interested in how the stunt was completed and the way Fisher felt about the entire thing after her traumatizing second on the set of the unique.
It’s sort of candy that each one the opposite foremost leads did it along with her, and I am excited by the scene, I’ve bought to say. However I have to know extra about how and why one other water tank scene bought written and authorized after the hullabaloo surrounding the primary film’s stunt. In any case, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t hits theaters on November 14, 2025.