Scottish actor Gerard Butler stopped by the Pentagon earlier this week to promote his upcoming movie "Hunter Killer" by speaking to the press about how he worked with the Navy to research his role as an submarine captain.
Among the details he revealed about his time aboard the nuclear-powered attack sub USS Houston at Pearl Harbor was a peculiar aspect of how a crew reacts after someone falls overboard.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but when you are doing a man overboard, rather than putting a man overboard, they throw a bag of popcorn into the water," Butler told reporters.
"Then you spend the next ? you have four minutes, because if you are in cold water, he's not going to make it, and neither is the popcorn ? because, actually, the bag breaks open," he added. "So you spend the next four minutes maneuvering an 8,000-ton sub to try and get next to the popcorn so somebody can jump in and rescue it."
