Jason Statham's shark encounter

Jason Statham came face-to-face with a bull shark to prepare for his new movie.



The 51-year-old actor decided to swim with sharks in order to improve his performance in his upcoming film 'The Meg'.



The film tells the story of a research crew who become stuck at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and risk being killed by a 22-meter-long prehistoric shark called Megalodon.



In an interview with Total Film, he said: "I thought I'd better figure out what it's like to go face-face-with a shark before we did this film, so I went scuba diving.”



"You're within two feet of these three-meter sharks. It was a great experience."



Jason represented England in the Commonwealth games in 1993 for diving, and has scuba-dived recreationally for 20 years, and he believes this makes him a great choice for the movie.