Jake Gyllenhaal reveals he got a staph infection and other injuries while filming 'Road House' fight scenes.
"I felt the glass going in my hand," the actor said of the various injuries he sustained while shooting fight scenes.Sydney Bucksbaum is a writer at Entertainment Weekly covering all things pop culture – but TV is her one true love. She currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago so please don't make fun of her accent when it slips out.'s 1989 action classic as a former UFC fighter who becomes a bouncer at a dilapidated bar in the Florida Keys.
"I felt the glass going in my hand," he said. "I remember the feeling went, 'That’s a lot of glass.'" Gyllenhaal said the cast dealt with "stuff like that all the time" while filming the many fight scenes, which is why he's not sure when exactly he contracted the staph infection. "My whole arm swelled up. It ended up being staph."
Despite the cut and infection, Gyllenhaal said he "didn't sustain any major injuries, a testament to the team I was working with ... Gratefully, I was really, really trying to take care of everything that we did, and my body while we were doing it."Zone of Interest executive producer disagrees with director Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech: 'It’s upset a lot of people'
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