Shot Twice

Actor Gerard Butler shocked reporters admitting he was shot twice in the head while filming the newly released film "Machine Gun Preacher" on location in South Africa. Butler, at the premiere of the new movie this weekend, described the incident as a "bloody dilemma". Butler, 41, says he did his own stunts. One day, while filming, the actor’s head was hit twice in quick succession by shells. "A shell hit me, slit my head, it was pouring with blood," Gerard told The Daily Star. "About 20 minutes later, we went again and another shell hit me. Within half an inch of the first one. It was a shell, but it sounds better to get shot," he said. Reports say both shells were shot from co-star Souleymane Sy Savane's gun. Butler also said he ripped a tendon in his leg while filming the same scene and has scars down his back from other injuries. "I couldn't walk for two weeks once. I have so many tendons that I have hurt," he said. Film crews witnessing the incidents during the scene say "it was pretty intense". Butler, now healed, says he felt as though his chances of dying on the set "were slim". "Listen, you do a movie like this and you get into a few accidents," Gerard told reporters.