While promoting his new movie Machine Gun Preacher, Gerard Butler admitted he was shot twice in the head while filming the movie. He told E! Online while on the red carpet Wednesday night: “It was a shell, but it sounds better to get shot.” Describe the incident in further detail, he explained, “The shell hit me, slit my head, it was pouring with blood. About twenty minutes later, we finally stopped the bleeding. We went again and another shell hit me! Within half an inch of the first one [and] slit my head again.” The shells came from co-star Souleymane Sy Savane’s gun, but in his defense, he says the scene was filmed at night and he was having a difficult time seeing what was going on. “It was kind of serious,” he told E! “It was a pretty intense scene. We were being attacked by a bunch of rebels at night. So I would say for my defense, I couldn’t really see.”