The character of The Punisher has been adapted several times and Thomas Jane reveals an incident from the filming of his film.
The actor thomas jane played Frank Castle in The Punishera former agent of FBI seeking revenge against a criminal organization led by Howard Saint (John Travolta), because they killed his whole family. During the filming of his fight scenes against The Russian (former professional wrestler Kevin Nash), an error occurred that could end in tragedy. Since someone forgot to change the real butterfly knife for the fake one.
thomas jane revealed what happened in a recent interview: “That was a bad day. I got to tell you, when he was walking around and grabbing the prop knife, and he was there, and I plunged it into his chest… And she stabbed him, and he went in. And I’m looking at the knife and I’m looking at Kevin, he’s just looking at me and he’s got a knife in his chest… Yeah, that was tough.”
And you know what made it worse? She was very nice about it. You’re like: Oh my God, this guy is going to throw me across the room. Just by reflex. He just sat there, looked at the knife, looked at me, and shook his head. I sent him a couple of cases of beer if I remember correctly. Revealed thomas jane.
Kevin Nash took it with humor.
Luckily, the wound was minor and the actor kevin nash he didn’t even go to the hospital and after they treated him right there he decided to continue filming with thomas jane. In fact, at the time he already commented that:
“I guess one of the stunt coordinators didn’t change the real butterfly for the retractable one. And Thomas Jane said… shh shh shh shh… And he just looked at me. I’m not going to say: Jesus! Because I don’t want to kill the scene. And he says: I just stabbed him. I say: It’s not that bad. And he says: No, it’s bad. You’re bleeding. I said, It’s not that bad, and I looked in the mirror and there was a little bit of blood, because they had framed the page anyway. So it was just a puncture wound. Was nothing. Poor Thomas Jane…it was like: Geez man…I just stabbed this guy.”