He's one of the world's most-loved comedians, but Kevin Hart says things got serious when he 'almost died' in a terrifying plane scare.
Hart stars in Netflix's latest action film Lift alongside the likes of Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Vincent D'Onofrio, who you might recognise from Marvel series Loki and Hawkeye respectively.
The big budget action comedy film - which drops on Netflix today (12 January) - has a simple but outlandish plot: a gang of criminals plan to steal $500 million in gold from a vault on a plane that is 40,000 feet in the air. Sounds fun, right.
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Hart plays heist boss Cyrus, and said of the movie: “In this film I am an action star, you can probably tell by looking at my arms!
"We wanted a film that the world could gravitate towards.
“It’s my first leading man role where I am serious. It’s a proper thriller and for the first time I’m not responsible for the jokes.”
Despite the film's bonkers plot, Hart has had equally dramatic experience on a plane in real-life, and opened up about the terrifying incident while promoting the movie.
Reflecting on his real-life plane scare, he told the BBC's Graham Norton Show: “I almost died.
"We were landing and as we did the front wheel broke, and I just saw flames coming out of the front of the plane.
“It was one of those moments when I thought, ‘This is it’, and I realised that if it happens I was cool with where I was in life. I didn’t panic.”
Joining Hart on the Graham Norton sofa this week is Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara, who discussed her Colombian accent and how it has affected her acting career.
Vergara also has a Netflix project dropping this month, undergoing a terrifying transformation to star as ruthless cocaine kingpin Griselda Blanco in Griselda, which drops on 25 January.
She said: “There was pressure on me to lose it and I thought it would not be that hard, that I could do some classes and have any role I wanted.
"That was not the case – I spent a lot of money and a lot of hours trying and it would get worse. I would go to auditions, and it was horrific.”
Alongside Hart and Vergara, Killing Eve's Jodie Comer, actor Alan Cumming and singer-songwriter Tom Odell will join Norton on the sofa this week.
The Graham Norton Show will air on BBC One on Friday, 12 January at 10.40pm.
It is also available on BBC iPlayer.
Topics: BBC, Graham Norton, Kevin Hart, Netflix, TV and Film, The Graham Norton Show, US News
Tom Earnshaw