Sam Worthington has a condition that isn’t exactly vertigo.
“I guess my fear of heights is really a fear of falling and landing in a splat,” says the 35-year-old Aussie hunk, who stood some 200 feet up, out the window of New York’s Roosevelt Hotel, to play the title role in “Man on a Ledge.”
“That’s why I was so pleased that the first time I went out on the ledge, I didn’t burst into tears crying, ‘I don’t want to do this movie! Somebody call my agent!’ ”
In the movie, now showing, the “Avatar” star is a cop who is framed for a jewel heist. Sent to jail for 30 years, he gets a day pass for his father’s funeral.
He ditches the police and checks into a luxury hotel, where he orders his “last meal” and gets out on the ledge. A police pyschologist (Elizabeth Banks) is sent to talk him down.
“You just couldn’t do this in a studio, or it would look fake,” Worthington said. “The audience would see through it in a minute.”
