Current:Home > MarketsElisabeth Moss reveals she broke her back on set, kept filming her new FX show ‘The Veil' -MoneyTrend
Elisabeth Moss reveals she broke her back on set, kept filming her new FX show ‘The Veil'
View
Date:2025-04-13 21:24:29
Elisabeth Moss is showing that making TV can be back-breaking work.
In an interview with Variety published Wednesday, Moss discussed her injury, which she'd incurred while performing a stunt on an Istanbul rooftop for her new FX spy thriller "The Veil."
As her character Imogen, an undercover MI6 agent, fended off an attack above the city's historic Grand Bazaar, Moss "hit a wall the wrong way, let's just say, and ended up lying on the roof for a couple hours." She later learned she'd broken a vertebra in her spine.
The scene, which will be on Episode 2 of the show (premiering April 30 on Hulu), "is actually the second time we shot it, about six weeks later," Moss told Variety.
The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning "Handmaid's Tale" star, 41, kept working through her injury, however.
"We actually shot the next day at the airport — those are the Paris airport scenes you see (in the episode) — and I actually have, like, a broken back," Moss said. "I tried to get them to put a green blanket over me, and just VFX me out. I was like, 'Look, just put the green blanket over me and you can scrub me out in post.'"
Despite her initial worry that the production wouldn't be able to finish filming the injury-causing scene in Istanbul, Moss said she got another chance at completing the scene.
"Well, I didn't know if we were going to be able to come back and shoot on this rooftop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul," she says. "It's not like that is an easy thing to accomplish. But luckily, we, as a production, and then FX, thank God, let us go back and shoot it again. Which was incredible, an incredible opportunity."
Moss' producing partner, who was on set during the injury, told Variety that Moss "is underselling how hard a lot of the stunt was that she did."
In January, Moss revealed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" that she is pregnant with her first child.
"I've been really lucky. It's been going really well," Moss said.
While Moss remains mum about her personal life, she was previously married to comedian Fred Armisen before the pair divorced in 2011.
veryGood! (254)
Related
- 'Squid Game' without subtitles? Duolingo, Netflix encourage fans to learn Korean
- Fossil Fuel Allies in Congress Target Meteorologists’ Climate Science Training
- Wimbledon will allow women to wear colored undershorts, in nod to period concerns
- As Amazon Fires Burn, Pope Convenes Meeting on the Rainforests and Moral Obligation to Protect Them
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- Obama’s Climate Leaders Launch New Harvard Center on Health and Climate
- Michigan voters approve amendment adding reproductive rights to state constitution
- ‘We See Your Greed’: Global Climate Strike Draws Millions Demanding Action
- The White House is cracking down on overdraft fees
- Far From Turning a Corner, Global CO2 Emissions Still Accelerating
Ranking
- Selena Gomez's "Weird Uncles" Steve Martin and Martin Short React to Her Engagement
- Today’s Climate: August 11, 2010
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors 3 Who Enabled a ‘Fossil Fuel-Free World’ — with an Exxon Twist
- Behati Prinsloo Shares Adorable New Photo of Her and Adam Levine’s Baby in Family Album
- The Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding
- This week on Sunday Morning (June 11)
- Here's Where You Can Score 80% Off the Chicest Rag & Bone Clothing & Accessories
- Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever
Recommendation
Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
Kate Spade 24-Hour Flash Deal: Get This $250 Crossbody Bag for Just $59
Today’s Climate: August 13, 2010
Only Kim Kardashian Could Make Wearing a Graphic Tee and Mom Jeans Look Glam
Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care
The Little Mermaid's Halle Bailey Makes a Stylish Splash With Liquid Gown
Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever