The heavy breathing and look of pain was real, not acting. Gerry was taken to the hospital and had to have therapy for his back injury he suffered for months. Here is a comment about that film from an interview Gerry did with Men's Journal, Gerard Butler's Wild Ride done in Nov. 2012 Also on the DVD the director's commentary talks about it. The cable was supposed to stop the car about an inch or two before the wall.
He'd been working on a movie called Shattered, doing a scene where the SUV he's riding in fake-crashes into a concrete wall. But when the cable that was supposed to catch the car before impact failed, Butler plowed into the wall for real. (You can see it in the movie; it's the take they used.) "I had bruised ribs for months," he says. "I had a headache every second of the day. I still have bulging disks from that *beep* thing."
Read more: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/gerard-butlers-wild-ride-20121126?page=3#ixzz33HVWaXkY
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