Jason Statham came face-to-face with a bull shark to prepare for his new movie.<br /><br /><br /><br />The 51-year-old actor decided to swim with sharks in order to improve his performance in his upcoming film 'The Meg'. <br /><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><br />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.”<br /><br /><br /><br />"You're within two feet of these three-meter sharks. It was a great experience." <br /><br /><br /><br />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. <br /><br />
