How Ryan Reynolds accidentally gave Denzel Washington two black eyes

Veteran actor Denzel Washington takes punches like a professional, Ryan Reynolds revealed.

The Canadian actor, 45, unintentionally gifted Washington, 67, two nasty black eyes throughout the filming of their 2012 motion flick, “Secure Home.”

Reynolds opened up about what went down a decade in the past in a sit-down chat with David Letterman for the Netflix sequence, “My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction With David Letterman.”

The “Proposal” star and the Oscar winner had been capturing a automotive struggle sequence in Cape City, South Africa, when the incident occurred.

He defined to Letterman, 75, that it was simply the second day of capturing when the actors had been preventing “in an uncontrolled automotive” the place he was alleged to “smash” Washington in “the face.”

“There’s a scene within the film the place he crawls via the trunk within the again and he grabs me and chokes me. We had been actually driving a automotive at prime pace,” Reynolds mentioned, recalling that stunt drivers weren’t getting used to carry out the scenes.

He added, “He and I are on this out-of-control automotive and my nook of my head — I felt it hit his eye so arduous I used to be certain that it cut up vast open.”

The “Deadpool” actor feared for his life and jokingly assumed he can be fired and even killed for inflicting ache to the “Tragedy of Macbeth” actor.

Reynolds famous, “I’m considering I’m going to be despatched residence through crematorium, like, that is it, not solely my profession however my precise pulse will stop.”

However Washington was a category act about it and politely advised Reynolds he was OK. “He was high quality, he was like, ‘Hey, accidents occur. Let’s do it once more and we’ll shoot it from the opposite aspect so we are able to maintain capturing so that you don’t see this,’” the Aviation Gin stakeholder mentioned.

All the things on set appeared high quality and dandy following the mishap, however the second take proved to be simply as arduous — and Reynolds socked Washington within the different eyeball.

“We did it once more, and I bought the opposite eye, Dave,” Reynolds advised the late-night host. “For a minute, he appeared like a Christmas decoration.”

“Secure Home” advised the story of Matt Weston (Reynolds), a low-level CIA officer residing in Cape City the place he’s guarding a protected because the CIA is questioning veteran operative Tobin Frost (Washington). The 2 males go on the run after mercenaries are employed to get rid of them.