12. He Nearly Died Performing A Stunt For The Expendables
Not afraid of working hard for his wages, Statham does his own stunts. In other words, he literally takes a battering to earn his millions. But while filming The Expendables in Bulgaria, things went badly wrong. Fellow hard-man Terry Crews described the situation: "We were doing a stunt and Jason Statham was driving this truck and we were supposed to be on the back of this truck. "He literally is supposed to stop the truck, we get out, we shoot, the whole thing ... (only) the truck doesn't stop. The truck goes over the dock, into the Black Sea with Jason Statham driving." Statham was plunged into the water, and while the crew on dry land panicked, he went into beast mode and swam to shore. Obviously.
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