Rebel Wilson is opening up about a scary accident that almost left her “permanently disfigured” while filming her latest movie, “Bride Hard.”
“In a fight scene, a gun accidentally got whacked across my face,” Wilson told Access Hollywood in an interview last week. “It was just a freak accident. And my nose got split open, so I left set. It was weirdly my last night of shooting. I was like, ‘Ahhh, how unlucky can I be?’”
Wilson said the “massive injury” left her in a “pool of blood.”
“If anybody’s had a facial injury, they know there’s so much blood,” she shared, adding that she “was freaking out” over her injury.
“They take me in an ambulance and they have to call a plastic surgeon, because if they didn’t, I would have been permanently disfigured,” the 45-year-old explained. “So we got the plastic surgeon, they did all the stitches, and you can’t tell now.”
“It was just one of those freak accidents,” Wilson said, before adding that people “have gotta be careful with on-set safety, even when it’s 3 in the morning and everyone’s tired.”
Wilson is one of the many actors who have opened up about what can happen when stunts go awry on set.
Celebrities like Jon Stewart, Harrison Ford, Jessica Chastain, Dev Patel and more have all spoken about the injuries they’ve sustained during filming.
Patel spoke about the pressure of continuing to perform with an extreme injury, as the crew filming his directorial debut, “Monkey Man,” were all counting on him to keep filming.
“I’m basically, I’m a crash test dummy and my co-star is using my face to break every piece of porcelain in this bathroom, and my hand, I heard it snap. I was like, ‘This is not good,’” Patel said of filming the movie’s first action scene, during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” last year.
“By the end of the day, my hand was like an elephant’s foot. And we couldn’t afford to put a cast on and VFX it out of this movie,” Patel said, adding that they had to find a doctor and come up with a patchwork solution to get his hand back to normal.
“The doctor put a screw in my hand and he goes, ‘You cannot put more than a pound or two of pressure on this thing, otherwise it’s like pulling a bent nail out of wood, you will ruin your bone,’” Patel said. He didn’t listen, and went back to filming as normal.
The “Slumdog Millionaire” actor said his crew eventually made a T-shirt out of the X-ray of his injured hand, and called the screw holding everything together “the one screw that kept this production alive.’”
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