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Topics: Rebel Wilson, Film and TV
Joe Yates
An accident on the set of Rebel Wilson's latest film Bride Hard almost left the her 'permanently disfigured'.
The Australian stars as a spy in the comedy, which sees her attend her childhood best friend's wedding that gets crashed by mercenaries - unfortunately for them, the 45-year-old's character is locked and loaded for what's about to go on.
Although, it was the Sydney-born actress who would be caught unawares on this occasion, as she explained how her final fight scene that took place at 3am ended in stitches - and not the ones you'd hope from a comedy, but from a visit to the plastic surgeon.
While Wilson and her co-star Anna Camp were promoting the one-hour-45-minute movie, the Aussie let slip about the horror that unfolded on director Simon West's set.
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"I did have a massive injury on this movie. I was in a fight scene, a gun accidentally got whacked across my face - it was just a freak accident, and my nose got split open," Wilson told Access Hollywood.
"So I left set. It was weirdly my last night of shooting, I was like, 'how unlucky can I be?', the last night of shooting, the last fight sequence my nose gets bust open - it's a pool of blood. If anybody's had a facial injury, they know, like, there's so much blood.
"I was freaking out, they take me in an ambulance and they have to call a plastic surgeon, because if they didn't I would have been permanently disfigured. So we got the plastic surgeon, they did all the stitches, and you can't tell now, like, you really can't tell."
She added: "Yeah, it was just one of those freak accidents. And so people gotta be real careful with onset safety, even sometimes when it's 3am in the morning and everyone's tired. Yes, you got to be real careful."
Wilson might have thought it was all worth it if Bride Hard, which is set for release in theaters on Friday (June 20), was well received at the pictures... but going off reviews from well-respected film critics, that seems unlikely.
The Wrap's William Bibbiani titled his brutal review on the movie 'This Incompetent Action-Comedy Is Where Humor Goes to Die', while describing it as 'abrasively hard to watch' - ouch!
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter's Angie Han went with a similar approach, with her review headlined: Rebel Wilson’s Laugh-Free Action Comedy Is an Invitation You’ll Want to Decline.
While it may not be the expert's cup of tea, I'm sure it could help get you through an afternoon!