Hollywood star Glen Powell has revealed that he “almost died” along with his pants round his ankles whereas filming in Australia.
The actor attended the New York premiere of his new movie Anyone however You alongside his co-star Sydney Sweeney on Tuesday.
While chatting on the purple carpet, Powell mentioned a scene wherein Sweeney’s character has to take a spider out of his shorts – he finally ends up getting bare because of this.
However, issues didn’t fairly go to plan. While Australia is known for its harmful wildlife, Powell’s clumsiness turned out to be the larger risk to his life.
“You just have to grip it and rip it on a scene like that. You know you’re not going to leave that filming day looking cool, so you just have to embrace it,” he mentioned on the premiere.
The actor instructed Variety he took his pants off “too fast” within the scene and misplaced his stability, nearly tumbling off the cliff stark bare.
“Taking your clothes off on the side of a cliff in a hurry is not safe,” Powell confessed. “Nobody talks about that safety issue on set, where I almost died falling off a cliff taking my pants off too fast. But it’s a really fun scene, so it was all worth it.”
To make issues worse, whereas Powell’s life nearly ended abruptly, Sweeney discovered herself getting extra intimate than she’d hoped with the spider that had been nestled in his shorts.
“There’s the spider itself, which actually bit me, and that was a whole thing,” Sweeney recalled. “And then we have the part of Glen bending over and me checking to see if there are more spiders.”
Clearly unbothered by rumours of a romance between them, the actress then teased: “I’m very acquainted with Glen now.”
Anyone however You follows archnemeses Bea (Sweeney) and Ben (Powell), who unexpectedly reunite at a vacation spot marriage ceremony in Australia and, for private causes, resolve to pose as the proper couple.
Throughout filming, rumours emerged that the pair had been hooking up, as they seemed to be getting on so effectively. Those rumours had been additional fuelled after Powell and his girlfriend, Gigi Paris, referred to as it quits in the midst of filming.
Anyone however You hits cinemas on December 22.
Source: www.news.com.au
