Eli Roth and Omar Doom escaped with their lives on the set of Quentin Tarantino's new war movie Inglorious Basterds, when a fire stunt went wrong and almost burned them alive.
The stars had to don flame-proof suits for one scene in which their characters are trapped in a blazing building, but the shoot came close to turning into a tragedy when the fire raged out of control.
The pair escaped with minor burns to their faces and hands, but Roth admits it could have been a lot worse.
He tells MTV.com, "If we'd been there another 10 seconds, they said the ceiling would have collapsed on us."
The movie, which also stars Brad Pitt, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France last week (ends22May09).
Inglorious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).
Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution.
Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.
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