An actor was rushed to the hospital with a bullet injury to his eye after he was accidentally shot while performing in a theatre in Britain. Stephen Sondheim’s Passion was immediately cancelled after the incident which occurred during a matinee performance Saturday, the Daily Telegraph reported.
David Birrell, 35, who was playing a colonel in the musical at the Donmar Warehouse theatre, was enacting a scene in which his character challenged another soldier to a duel. But it is understood that there was a fault with the gun, which was meant to fire blanks. Witnesses said they saw the actor being carried to an ambulance “looking shaken” and with his right eye bandaged.
Simon Bailey, the actor who plays a lieutenant in the play, tweeted: “Thank you all, we had an incident this eve, I won’t divulge, but keep good thoughts for my friend please fellow twits xx.” A Donmar spokesman said: “Our priorities are to David’s well-being and recovery; and to theatregoers who have purchased tickets for performances in the coming days.”
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Julia loved Indian food during shoot
Los Angeles: India was her character’s spiritual destination in the movie Eat, Pray, Love but Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts made the most of her shoot by gorging on local delicacies. Film’s India shoot concentrated on the spiritual path but Roberts says she had her “eat” adventures in India too. The 42-year-old star shot parts of the movie, based on the memoirs of Elizabeth Gilbert in an ashram and Pataudi Palace in Gurgaon in September 2009.
“It’s amazing how much Indian food you can eat in five weeks. I’m pretty picky and I really like Indian food. Just every once in a while, you run into something that is so amazingly spicy that you’re just sweating all through dinner,” Roberts told People magazine. The actress also wore a saree for a scene in the movie. —PTI