A London
doubledecker that exploded while crossing Lambeth Bridge in a Hollywood
film stunt alarmed onlookers who feared it was a terror attack.
Children in a nearby park “freaked”, according to author Sophie
Kinsella, who saw the top deck of the bus blow up as it travelled
towards Westminster on Sunday morning.
The stunt was reportedly being filmed for a scene in The Foreigner, which will star Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan.
Bus explodes on Lambeth Bridge in London during filming for Jackie Chan’s new film. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
Nigel Huddleston, the Conservative MP for mid-Worcestershire, caught
the explosion on video. He said the “scale and realism of the explosion
would have worried a lot of people”.
“Anyone worried about the exploding bus on Lambeth Bridge just now?” he tweeted. “It was just for a movie.”
One Twitter user, Failnaut, who saw a video of the blast, said it
reminded him of the 7/7 attacks on the London transport network. He
said: “If you’re filming a London bus blowing up and tweeting it out,
say it’s fake. Some of us lived through 7/7 waiting to see who’d died.”
Smoke bellows from the bus shortly after the explosion on Sunday morning. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
The blast created a huge fireball that ripped off the top of the bus
as it crossed the bridge, leaving what another onlooker, Chris
Cheeseman, described as “a grim aftermath” with dummy bodies visible on
the top deck.
Kinsella tweeted: “Hey film types next time you blow up a bus on
Lambeth Bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren’t freaked?”
She added: “I was freaked too. Looked very real.”
The bus after it exploded on Lambeth Bridge. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
Huddleston said: “Local residents and businesses were informed and
notices posted in lobbies and lifts saying to expect ‘a controlled
explosion’ between 9am and 10am.
“But the scale and realism of the explosion would have worried a lot
of people who were quite a long way off and not able to see the film
crew and cameras. Walking past parliament a few minutes later, some
tourists clearly had no idea whether it was real or not.
“It is great that London is such a desirable location for filming but
the filmmakers and authorities could clearly have done a better job at
communicating – especially in times of heightened security.”
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