Gerard Butler didn’t have the best time filming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera as he shot the movie “with a freshly torn ACL.”
In a new interview, the actor revealed that he filmed the action-intense movie while injured.
“This was a weird time for me at the beginning of this movie because I’d been through a pretty intense surgery, and then I tore my ACL fully about a month later and then started this movie,” Butler told Entertainment Weekly.
He continued, “So I was not in the best shape, and it was a pretty physical movie, and I didn’t have a chance to get the surgery on my ACL, so I made this movie with a freshly torn ACL, and it was pretty rough. But yeah… I wanted to put a ‘but’ in to make it sound positive, but it wasn’t positive; it was a nightmare and I was a whiny little bitch!”
The action crime drama film directed and written by Christian Gudegast opens in theaters on January 10. Butler reprises his role as Nicholas “Big Nick” O’Brien, who, in the sequel, is tracking down Donnie Wilson, played by O’Shea Jackson Jr., to plan another heist.
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera also stars Evin Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito, Meadow Williams, Swen Temmel, Michael Bisping, Orli Shuka, Cristian Solimeno, Nazmiye Oral, Yasen Zates Atour, Giuseppe Schillaci, Dino Kelly, Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topic, Antonio Bustorff, and Ciryl Gane.
