Blake Lively nearly broke her nose filming The Shallows stunts
Blake Lively seriously hurt her face while filming a sequence for her new film The Shallows.
In the movie, Blake plays a young pro surfer who, while exploring a secluded beach called Paradise, becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and filmed mostly in New South
Wales, Australia, Blake reveals that the scene in which she pulls
herself onto a rusty metal buoy and hits her nose wasn't meant to
happen.
"I hit my face on the buoy...That really happened, that wasn't in
the script," she shared during an interview on Late Night with Seth
Meyers on Wednesday night (22Jun16). "And then when I swam up and
had this bloody nose, I thought either I'm going to pass out and
I'm going to look like a Picasso painting, with a broken nose
smeared across my face, or I'm going to have a really (cool)
scene."
While her nose bled profusely, the 28-year-old star thankfully
didn't suffer any broken bones.
But she was "thrilled" that the bloody scene was left in the final
cut of the movie as she wanted the audience "to know my pain".
"But I'm so glad (the scene was left in), because you know when you
get hurt and it hurts a lot worse than it looks, so you're like
'dang it, if you only knew you'd be so impressed,'" she
laughed.
Blake, who is pregnant with her and husband Ryan Reynolds' second
child, adds that she did many of her own stunts for the movie
because the producers kept putting off hiring a stunt double.
"I think they were having budget cuts or something because they
didn't hire a stunt double until the last two weeks," she added.
Filming for The Shallows began in November (15) and Blake was
pictured shooting additional scenes for the movie on 12 April (16),
just two days before her second pregnancy was announced.
And the brave star explains filming action-sequences weren't easy,
even though the later scenes she shot while carrying her baby were
not as physically intense as those captured earlier in the
production schedule.
"Doing the underwater sequences, I'm in 4.5-foot waves," she said
previously. "Whether I was in the tank or when I was in the ocean,
I was about 300 yards away from shore. They would drop me off on
this rock that was three feet by three feet."
The Shallows reaches U.S. theaters on Friday (24Jun16) and U.K.
cinemas on 12 August (16).