Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The actor recalls the cigarette burn that left a mark while filming the Antoine Fuqua-directed action thriller.

In Gerard Butler’s latest action flick Olympus Has Fallen, the actor plays a former Secret Service agent who returns to the White House when the President (Aaron Eckhart) is taken hostage by a Korean terrorist group. The patriotic thriller -- also starring Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo and Dylan McDermott -- is packed with fight sequences, and one particular stunt with McDermott resulted in actual injuries on both sides.