Since his genre breakout with The Transporter in 2002, Jason Statham has more than proven his bona fides as an action star – a guy you can rely on to do cool things and look like a badass when cameras are rolling. In the making of his latest movie, Meg 2: The Trench, this well-established reputation quickly earned him the trust of director Ben Wheatley, and it led to one of the movie’s coolest scenes being filmed in an awesome and practical way.
As previewed in the trailers for Meg 2: The Trench, there is a sequence in the film’s third act where Jason Statham’s Jonas Taylor races around on a Jet Ski hunting Megalodons with explosive harpoons, and it turns out that it was shot in a fashion that only enhances Statham’s action legend status. Instead of the Jet Ski being rigged up to a larger boat and towed or using blue screen, the go-to method during production was to strap a camera to Statham’s watercraft and let the actor go out and have some fun on the water. According to Ben Wheatley,
