Glen Powell says he ‘almost died’ while filming a cliff-top nude scene with Sydney Sweeney for their latest flick.
The pair star in upcoming rom-com Anyone But You, which premiered in New York last night - you can check out a trailer here:
A synopsis for the flick explains: “Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia.
"So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.”
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In the trailer, viewers are given a sneak peek of one particular scene where the pair are stood atop a clifftop, where Bea fishes a spider out of Ben’s shorts prompting him to strip off in a panic.
Well, Aussie spiders aren’t known for messing around, are they?
While the scene may look like the perfect rom-com set up, Powell, 35, admits it was actually pretty dangerous to film.
Speaking to Variety on the red carpet, he said: “You just have to grip it and rip it on a scene like that.
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“You know you’re not going to leave that filming day looking cool, so you just have to embrace it.
"Taking your clothes off on the side of a cliff in a hurry is not safe either. 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’s all worth it.”
And it turns out it wasn’t just Powell who feared for life on-set - his onscreen partner Sweeney also had a run-in with one of those aforementioned scary Australian spiders.
The 26-year-old recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where she opened up about the incident, telling the host: “They told me it was trained. I don't know how you train a f***ing spider. There is no way.
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“So we are filming and the thing just starts biting me but we are in the middle of the scene and I'm supposed to be screaming but then my screaming got a little serious.”
Sweeney says that the crew initially thought her reaction to the bite was her acting, which is high praise for her acting abilities, isn’t it?
She went on: “They thought I was making really serious dramatic choices in a rom-com.
“No one cut so I'm just sitting there with a spider on my arm biting me. And I'm screaming and just everyone is watching. Glen was the only one who was like, 'whoa, whoa, whoa, I think this is a little real'’.
“I thought I was going to die.”
Topics: TV and Film
Claire Reid