‘Thunderbolts*’ stars reveal Wyatt Russell split head open during filming

A few of blood spilled on the Thunderbolts* set wasn’t truly pretend.

Marvel’s latest team-up film facilities on a dysfunctional group of antiheroes and villains, so it is no shock that Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes/the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), U.S. Agent/John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Alexei Shostakov/Crimson Guardian (David Harbour), Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) get beat up. A lot.

However when the forged gathered for Leisure Weekly‘s Around the Table, they revealed some gnarly on-set risks that led to an actual hospital journey and staples in one in every of their heads … in addition to a near-miss brush with scorpions. And Pugh remembers the scorpions most of all since one in every of them was actually climbing up her leg, and he or she had no concept on the time.

“We’re in the desert laying down on the floor filming a scene, and as we get up, someone just comes and pats my leg,” she says. “And I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ And they’re like, ‘There was a scorpion on your leg.’ Where we were lying down, we were on a scorpion’s home.”

As John-Kamen laughs about how they had been all unwittingly laying on a scorpion nest, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who performs the scheming Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Geraldine Viswanathan, who performs her assistant Mel, are each shocked. “I did not know this,” Louis-Dreyfus says. “That’s really freaky. That’s awful.”

“We were laying down, and we got up, and we had to have umbrellas because we it was so hot and we were in the desert,” Pugh continues. “We were waiting to do the reset, and then we were going to get back down on the floor, and someone came and patted my leg. Thank god I was wearing those combat boots, because there was a scorpion on my combat boot climbing up my leg. And then we were like, ‘No way, we were laying down there!'”

However they weren’t out of the hazard simply but. “And then they were like, ‘Reset, reset, get back down there,'” John-Kamen remembers.

Pugh laughs as she provides, “They were like, ‘The scorpions are gone.’ And we were like, ‘But what about the other ones?!'”

Whereas they did not get stung by the scorpions throughout that scene, one in every of them did not make it out unscathed from one other scene. “I split my head open,” Russell reveals. “That was a blast.”

Louis-Dreyfus did find out about this on-set mishap. “You got staples in your head,” she says to Russell.

Harbour remembers that day on set clearly, as a result of he observed how dangerous the scene was as they had been filming. “I kept saying, ‘Guys, this is really dangerous because we’re running run in front of this little two-by-four that sticks out right here,'” Harbour says. “‘We have to duck into it. It’s really dangerous, can we not do this?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah yeah yeah, let’s just go one more time.’ And we came in, and I went through, and then Wyatt, and then I just heard, ‘Oh!’ And he went down on the ground. I remember I looked over and blood was just spewing everywhere.”

But it surely’s as if Russell had the tremendous solider serum himself, as a result of John-Kamen reveals that he was again on set the following day, able to movie with staples in his head.

“Yeah, went to the hospital, stapled me up,” Russell reveals.

“You don’t even have a scar,” Louis-Dreyfus tells him, however he corrects her.

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“Yeah, in my hairline,” Russell says. “Three inches lower and I would have been the scar guy for the rest of my life. A lot of roles with cool scars in them. Would have been really good for the career. But that was fun.”

Fortunately, no extra on-set accidents occurred all through the course of filming. However there have been loads of alternatives with the entire creative motion sequences they shot for the film. “Lots of adrenaline, running through holes that were too tight for us to run through,” Pugh says.

Harbour particularly remembers having to run full velocity downstairs proper behind Pugh, and he was frightened about falling on her if one thing went fallacious. And one thing did go fallacious … for Pugh, at the least, whose batons saved getting caught on the concrete ledge above her, yanking her backward each time. “We’re unhinged!” Pugh says with fun.

Thunderbolts* is now taking part in in theaters. Watch our full interview with the forged within the video above.