NEW YORK: Actress Elizabeth Banks had a mid-air scare while filming new thriller ‘Man On A Ledge’ on the side of a building in New York when she discovered her safety harness had become loose.
The star plays a New York police detective in the upcoming film and attempts to talk down a former cop-turned-conman, portrayed by ‘Avatar’ actor Sam Worthington, from jumping to his death from a window ledge. One scene sees the pair high up on the ledge of a building and Banks reveals the look of fear on her face in the movie was all real as the stunt, shot earlier this month, went awry.
She tells, “We were 19 floors up and we’re on one little string that holds us to the building and at one point I’m checking my equipment because I’m totally freaking out and the guy’s like, ‘What you’re really checking for is if the screw’s loose’.
And I go, ‘You mean like this?’ and it’s totally loose. I’m not afraid of heights, but you have no control over the adrenaline rushing through your body. And I’m pretending to be scared anyway so I got out there acting like I was breathing heavily and then I literally started hyperventilating and my vision started to go fuzzy on the sides. I was like, I’m going over!”
