Filming nude scenes can be awkward and embarrassing. For Glen Powell, it was almost deadly. When the actor stripped down to his birthday suit in “Anyone But You,” the actor was a little overzealous — so much so that he almost fell off the cliff. “Taking your clothes off on the side of a cliff in a hurry is not safe either,” Powell told Variety. “Nobody talks about that safety issue on set, where I almost died falling off a cliff taking my pants off too fast. But it’s a really fun scene, so it was all worth it.”
The scene was just as harrowing for Sydney Sweeney, who endured a nasty bite from the huntsman spider while filming. Thanks to her costar, she received proper medical attention. “Well, the spider actually bit me in the middle of this scene but nobody called cut because they thought I was just making a very dramatic, interesting choice in this scene, and Glen was the only one who finally caught on,” the actress told Hoda Kotb in an appearance on TODAY.
Rest assured, Powell and Sweeney’s death-defying rom-com antics proved their mettle as actors. Powell will be seen next in “Twisters,” and Sweeney is making her Marvel debut in the upcoming “Madame Web.”
