Dev Patel stops a knife fight in Australia

Hero on and off the screen. As reported by the 7News media, Dev Patel, star of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and more recently ‘The Green Knight’, broke a knife fight in Australia thus avoiding an accident that could have been fatal. The events took place on 1 August when a man was stabbed in the chest in front of a shop in Adelaide, presumably by a woman he was arguing with. Patel, who lives in the countryside, witnessed the altercation with his friends and decided to intervene.

“Dev acted on his natural instincts to try to reduce the escalation of the situation and end the fight.”his rep told Variety, “Fortunately, the group was successful and they stayed on the scene to make sure the police and eventually the ambulance arrived.” The man who was attacked should survive.

Although without them present and acting as they did we don’t know how the victim could have ended up, Patel’s team insists that “There are no heroes in this situation And sadly, this specific incident highlights a broader systemic problem in which people on the margins of society are not treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. ” “That the same level of attention this media story is receiving just because Dev, as a celebrity, got involved, is a catalyst for legislation to have compassion and find long-term solutions to help not only the people involved here, but also the community in general “.

a break at work

Having premiered the drama “The Green Knight”, the “Modern Love” series and the biopic “The Incredible Story of David Copperfield” over the past 3 years, Patel decided to take a short break from acting and switched to directed with “Monkey Man ‘, a suspense and action story produced by Netflix and starring, among others, Sharlto Copley, Sobhita Dhulipala and Pitobash. The film is in post-production and is expected to be released this year. we will see him again in Wes Anderson’s sequel to “Asteroid City”, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, an adventure based on the character of Roald Dahl in which Patel stars alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade.