Dev Patel efficiently broke up a knife fight in Adelaide, Australia on Monday, a representative for the Oscar nominee, who lives in Australia, confirmed in a press release to Variety.
According to the nation’s 7News, a person and a lady have been combating in the road and in a comfort retailer when the person was stabbed in the chest. He is predicted to outlive.
“We can confirm that last night, in Adelaide, Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already in progress outside of a convenience store,” the actor’s representative stated.
“Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the situation and break up the fight. The group was thankfully successful in doing so and they remained on site to ensure that the police and eventually the ambulance arrived.”
The assertion from Patel’s group stated “there are no heroes in this situation and sadly this specific incident highlights a larger systemic issue of marginalized members of society not being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
“The hope is that the same level of media attention this story is receiving (solely because Dev, as a famous person, was involved) can be a catalyst for lawmakers to be compassionate in determining long-term solutions to help not only the individuals who were involved but the community at large,” the assertion concluded.
Variety has reached out to native police in Adelaide, Australia for added touch upon the incident.
Patel has been on a small performing hiatus since fronting David Lowery’s acclaimed fantasy indie “The Green Knight” final 12 months through the pandemic.
His Netflix-backed directorial debut “Monkey Man” is at the moment in post-production, and he’s additionally set to star reverse Benedict Cumberbatch and Ralph Fiennes in Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” additionally backed by Netflix.