Former UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor is already known to be one of the most dangerous men on the planet due to his supreme fighting skills. But recently, he unfortunately injured someone without even meaning to recently during a recent movie filming that he appeared in.
McGregor starred alongside famous actor Jake Gyllenhaal in a remake of the hit movie Road House which is set to premiere later this month.
On Monday, the two went on the Armchair Expert podcast to discuss their time filming the together, where Gyllenhaal revealed that he suffered a pretty nasty injury while filming a fight scene with McGregor for the movie.
“We’re fighting on the floor, fighting around tables, we’re fighting around glass,” Gyllenhaal said. “I put my hand on the bar, straight glass. I felt the glass going in my hand, I remember the feeling and went, ‘That’s a lot of glass.’
Gyllenhaal then revealed that he ended up with a staph infection due to the cut, which caused his arm to swell pretty severely.
“I thought it came from, remember that scene where you come with a piece of wood?” Gyllenhaal asked McGregor. “I grabbed your arm and I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’m injured.’ But my whole arm swelled up. It ended up being staph. Gratefully, I was really, really trying to take care of everything that we did and my body while we were doing it. I didn’t sustain any major injuries.”
This is just proof that movie stars do indeed have their own bumps and bruises throughout filming that are oftentimes never even discussed. So maybe McGregor and Gyllenhaal aren’t quite as different as it may seem.
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Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.