Famous action hero, Jason Statham almost defied death itself during the filming of The Expendables 3. This happened during a shot where he was driving a three ton truck. The stunt went terribly wrong. At this moment the action hero escaped death narrowly.
With Jason Statham behind the wheel, as mentioned earlier, weighed about three-ton, the brakes failed. The truck plunged more than 60 feet into the Black Sea. Well it was fortunate for Jason Statham to have learned some diving skills. He competed as a professional diver for England. Because of his skills he knew how to handle himself.
While The Mirror interviewing his co-star Sylvester Stallone at the films’ London Premiere he said, “Luckily we had taken the doors off before”. “If anyone else had been in that truck we would have been dead because we were all wearing heavy boots and gun belts. We would have drowned. But because Jason is an Olympic-quality diver he got out of it.”
This is not the first time that the incident has been reported, Sly brought the anecdote recently as well. Actor Terry Crews also told about the Jason Statham incident. “He gets out, swims to the top, and the truck is gone,” Crews told Jay Leno. “Let me tell you something, Jason Statham is a true bad, bad dude.”
Jason Statham for his part, played down any danger he experienced on set while playing the character of “Lee Christmas”, a former British SAS Soldier. When asked of his worst injury during filming, he said, “I snapped a shoelace in the very first scene”. Now this my friend is badass! I mean how one can be so hardcore and I-snapped-a-shoelace like confident.
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