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Olivia Wilde shares a haunting memory about nearly drowning while shooting a project early in her career, in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Invite<\/em> star and director says a camera operator “dropped the camera to grab me, because he was like, ‘She dead.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Wilde says the incident occurred on the set of the 2006 horror movie Turistas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Olivia Wilde<\/a> says that a drowning scene became a little too real while shooting one of her earliest movies.<\/p>\n The Booksmart<\/em> filmmaker recalls a terrifying incident that occurred on the set of the 2006 horror film Turistas<\/em> during a new installment of Entertainment Weekly\u2019<\/em>s \u201cLie vs. Lie” video series.<\/p>\n “I had to learn how to free dive to go into tunnels and hold my breath for minutes upon minutes,” Wilde says after Seth Rogen<\/a>, her costar in The Invite<\/em>, asked her a question about learning an unusual skill for a role. “We had to go down into this tunnel, and I got lost. It’s a job a stunt person should do. And you have to suck down little bubbles of air that look like little mercury pods.”<\/p>\n Wilde explains that she was taken underwater with a scuba tank before every take, and that as she attempted to inhale the aforementioned air bubbles, she “sucked down a bunch of water” into her lungs.<\/p>\n “My character was supposed to be drowning, so when I started drowning, they were like, ‘All right\u2026she’s nailing it, she locked in,'” she remembers, noting how a courageous camera operator helped her in a moment of crisis. “And the cameraman dropped the camera to grab me, because he was like, ‘She dead.'”<\/p>\n