Actor Dev Patel said Friday that he was seriously injured during the first fight scene in his new movie.
Patel I participated On “The Tonight Show,” alleged Toxic host Jimmy Fallon tells the whole story about how he broke his hand in the first action scene of his new movie “Monkey Man.” And what he did next was quite shocking.
“Everything that could go wrong went wrong. In the first action scene I’m basically a crash test dummy. My co-star is using my face to break all the china in this bathroom,” he says. I heard my hand snap and I thought, ‘This isn’t good,”’ Patel explained to Fallon.
“And I knew, there are 450 people living on the island, and if I go down, the movie goes down. You know, at a really troubling time in history, we have a purpose. So I told the producer, “Don’t say anything.” Let’s continue shooting. By the end of the day, my hands looked like elephant feet. And we couldn’t afford to cast or do VFX for this movie,” he continued.
Thanks to cheap flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, Patel was able to hop on a flight to Jakarta, where the doctor received a screw in his hand and suffered one or two injuries. I was instructed not to apply more than a pound of force. (Related: Award-winning actor Dev Patel calls off knife fight)
“In fact, I went right back to set the next day and found myself throwing myself and bouncing off the window,” Patel said. “And the staff made me a T-shirt.” The shirt had Patel’s X-ray picture on it. Apparently Patel was raised under the strict British rule that she “stop crying and just do it” even though she was literally missing some of her limbs.
Patel’s new film ‘Monkey Man’ will be released in theaters on April 5th.
