REYNOLDS TRIED SMUGGLING SLEEP MEDICATION TO SPAIN
RYAN REYNOLDS was so desperate to cure his insomnia while filming new mov ie BURIED, he convinced his family to try smuggling sleep aides to him on the set of the shoot in Spain.
Reynolds stars as a trucker who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive i n the film, but he didn’t predict shooting long scenes locked in a coffin would take such a mental toll.
And he was desperate for a solution after discovering many over-the-cou nter sleep aides in the U.S. are illegal in Spain.
He explains, "I’d go home and I’d pace until sun up, like a vampire, an d then climb into a coffin (to film)… I was losing my mind, I hadn’t sl ept in days, weeks." But the actor never got the relief he desperately needed - because Span ish immigration officials blocked the drugs from getting into the country ..
He adds: "In Spain, you can’t get over-the-counter sleep aides. Melaton in is a herbal one that I like to use because it’s not really harmful. Yo u can’t get it there, it’s basically like crack.
"I had my family ship it over from America, and it never got to me each time. I tried six times to get it there."
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