Kate Winslet helped rescue Richard Branson’s mother, Ryan Gosling came to the aid of a man being beaten up over a painting, and now Brad Pitt’s reportedly rescued an extra on the set of World War Z. The Scottish Sun says Pitt helped a young woman who was knocked down while they were shooting a scene with 700 extras in Glasgow’s George Square. She could have been trampled by the crowd had Pitt not come to her rescue.
Brad Pitt and the unknown extra didn’t have time to really talk about what happened during the scene, but she’s thankful for his assistance. “He didn’t have time to speak to her as it was mid-shoot. But she said afterward how grateful she was, despite having a badly-grazed knee,” an insider on the set told The Scottish Sun.
Apparently, the woman Pitt stopped to help to her feet wasn’t the only extra who was injured on the set of the zombie movie. The Scottish Sun reports a source in the know told them, “Loads of extras suffered bumps and scrapes during the battle scene. There was no training or choreography before the chase on Wednesday morning. An extra playing a soldier was even hit by a moving car, ending up on the vehicle’s bonnet, but fortunately he escaped unhurt.”
World War Z is directed by Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher) and also stars Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, and Daniella Kertesz. Paramount’s aiming for a December 21, 2012 release.
The Plot: “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.”
