Dominic Sherwood Ripped His Pants One Of The First Times He Wore The Owl Costume in 'Shadowhunters'

Dominic Sherwood has an incredibly funny story about wearing, and shooting in, The Owl’s wardrobe on the Shadowhunters set.

During his recent interview with EW, the 28-year-old British actor revealed that one day on set, while dressed as The Owl, nothing went right.

“It’s a mask,” Dominic shared first about the look he has to get into every time. “They do the face mold which is no fun — you’re in a warm room, and they put this goo on your face, and you have to sit there for like an hour breathing through a tube. It’s a pretty rough day.”

He continues, “Then they give it to you and it feels funny wearing it, and then you can’t really breathe properly and you can’t see.”

“The first scene I did, we had these rain towers up, and I couldn’t see through the lenses because they’re foggy. They’re also tinted, and it was night so everything was really dark. Then what we found out is that the masks leaked and the lenses started to fill up with water. That was difficult.”

But that’s not the funny part at all – this is: “The pants ripped, too, literally from my belly button all the way to the small of my back. That was fun.”

Dominic explains that “every time this creature possesses someone, he kneels over them and holds their face. And sure enough, I kneeled down and [my pants] ripped all the way through. Thank god I chose to even wear underwear that day, but I chose to wear bright orange underwear, which everybody saw.”