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“It’s a bit of a sore point”: Jason Statham Regretted Not Being Skilled Enough After Almost Drowning in ‘Expendables 3’


Jason Statham is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after action heroes of recent times. He is one of those rare stars who do their stunts in the movies all by themselves to make it feel real. And this formula has proven true more often than not with him starring in blockbusters like Mechanic: Resurrection and so on.
However, all of this could have been for naught as he once almost lost his life trying to do exactly that. During the shooting of his 2014 movie The Expendables 3, he almost drowned to his death in the Black Sea. However, in true Jason Statham style, he even saved himself from death’s grip thanks to his exceptional skills due to being a professional diver.

Jason Statham almost drowned during The Expendables 3Being an action star, Jason Statham tends to have a lot of interesting stories regarding the high-intensity stunts he shoots for his movies. Although he has mentioned before that he feels embarrassed shooting those scenes with his co-stars’ stunt doubles, he still feels adamant about doing those himself.
He seems to feel that among so many established and up-and-coming actors these days, this is something that sets him apart a little. However, this sure has its risks. And although most times they could be brushed off as mere inconveniences, rarely they could also turn fatal.

And the Fast and Furious star had his first experience with almost death due to this very reason. Basically, during the shooting of The Expendables 3 in Bulgaria, there was a scene where he was supposed to drive a 3-tonne flatbed truck along the docks of the Black Sea. During a test drive for that scene, the brakes of Statham’s truck suddenly failed.
Trying to control and stop its movement, Statham ended up hitting two cameramen, careened off of a jetty, and plunged into the sea. Unfortunately for Statham, he had a lot of weight added to him in his heavy jacket and boots.

However, this is a time when his professional diving background paid off as he calculated the tragic fate waiting for him if he did not take matters into his own hands.
Thinking quickly, he pulled himself out through the window after calming down a bit. Being a diver is also the reason he was able to calm himself down in a situation like that and hold his breath all the while swimming upwards before he reached the surface.

Although he recounted the story in good humor in Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, even adding amusingly how his co-star Sylvester Stallone cheekily asked, “Hey Jason, you need a towel?” after that, it is evident that the accident left quite a mark on him.
Jason Statham was a professional diver before his Hollywood careerAlthough Statham keeps himself in shape for his action-hero career by practicing judo, boxing, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu regularly, there is a significant regret he still has over his career choices. As people know, Jason Statham used to be a professional diver before he stepped into Hollywood.
In fact, he was a good enough athlete to even compete in national and international competitions, like the Commonwealth Games for which he represented England in 1990 in New Zealand.
However, he ended up without any medals in there which shortly ended his career. This still seems to haunt him, as he once expressed in an interview, “It’s a bit of a sore point I never got to the Olympics.”
Although he seems to have made peace with the fact, as he noted that “The divers now are just terrific,” when talking about the increased funding for diving after Team GB’s success in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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He still seems to feel like he might have done better if he chose a different sport. He elaborated saying, “I started too late. It probably wasn’t my thing. I should have done a different sport.”
However, it is in fact his choice of this sport that ended up saving his life from a terrible fate during The Expendables 3. So it could be said that even if he did not get to win any medals for his country because of diving, he surely won in life.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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