Though Jack Reacher isn’t simple to defeat, Alan Ritchson is barely human.
The Reacher star lately revealed that he was knocked unconscious whereas filming a combat scene for the Season 3 finale of his Prime Video sequence, which is now out there to stream on the platform.
“I bought picked up and we labored out the digicam factor a number of instances and he slammed me by the desk so laborious, I went by it into the seventh circle of hell,” he informed Leisure Weekly. “And I awoke a day and a half later. Once I got here to, I needed to inform my children that I felt nice, as a result of they had been on set, and I didn’t need them to suppose that like, dad died and was going to not be okay. It was the worst couple of minutes of my life.”
Ritchson famous he filmed the scene after a “enormous combat” along with his group, throughout which they informed him, “‘you’re going to die, and we tried to warn you.’”
“The entire level is you simply watch Reacher get ragdolled for 5 minutes straight,” he defined. “And I used to be like, ‘That is enjoyable. I like that that is the concept for everyone proper now.’ And I get the intense thought to shoot a stunt in a method, as a result of I used to be like, ‘I would like the viewers to know that I’m doing this for us. I’m taking one for Reacher and we’re all on this collectively,’ and so I needed the digicam to come back up and simply keep on my face the entire time whereas I get smashed by a desk on the barn ground.”
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Ritchson continued, “All people was like, ‘You’re going to get killed and we’re not going to try this as a result of it’s going to harm you too unhealthy.’ And so we’re going to do it with a stuntman and a digicam on the ground.’ And I used to be like, ‘No.’”
The actor mentioned it took “three weeks” to movie the combat sequence, including: “That was one, three-second beat in 28 minutes of content material, simply to provide you an instance of what my life was like for these three weeks. It was a hoot.”
