Nicole Kidman performed a pro-wrestling segment successful “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” while suffering from nan flu, and promptly had to beryllium transported to nan infirmary afterwards.
“We’re location successful nan morning, we’re getting warmed up — immoderate of america are going to beryllium performing immoderate existent wrestling, and truthful we person our doubles, we person group we’re moving with,” Kidman’s co-star, Nick Offerman, told People of shooting nan April 22 section of nan deed comedy.
In nan series, Kidman plays a pro wrestler named Lace other Offerman’s wrestling garish persona, Jinx — and nan 2 person nan opportunity to look disconnected successful nan ringing astatine a convention.
“And nan connection comes successful that Nicole has nan flu, and we mightiness not get Nicole today,” Offerman told nan outlet. “And we’re like, ‘Oh no, that’s specified a bummer, because we only person nan 1 time that we’ve built this full circus for.'”
The Oscar winning actress, it turns out, wasn’t astir to fto a lawsuit of nan flu slow down nan series, for which she’s an executive producer.
“It’s astir 8:00 successful nan greeting that we get this news,” Offerman divulged. “Come to beryllium astir 11:00 a.m., nan connection comes in: Nicole’s coming.”
The “Big Little Lies” prima was “so sick,” Offerman said — but she made it to activity nonetheless.
“She was truthful pale, shaken,” nan “Parks and Recreation” alum shared. “She conscionable had nan flu really truthful bad.”
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Still, Kidman “showed up and made judge that we sewage each changeable of her, full superhero style, did everything we needed to truthful that we did not suffer 1 scrap of what we needed for her character.”
After shooting nan physically demanding scene, Kidman “was virtually taken to nan infirmary for an IV.”
“And I conscionable said to her, I already admired you truthful much, but this is really you get to beryllium Nicole Kidman, is you show up truthful that your show doesn’t suffer a infinitesimal of your value,” Offerman gushed.
“It was truthful generous. It was astonishing.” Kidman, meanwhile, said she was “so frightened astir getting injured.
“When I sewage successful nan ring, I conscionable went, ‘OK, let’s go,'” she told People earlier this month. “‘Cause whenever I do something, I go, ‘OK, I’ve gotta beryllium really careful,’ and past I conscionable hide astir immoderate benignant of protection successful my body, and I spell crazy.”
Kidman erstwhile gave fans penetration into her sterling activity ethic. “I came from an manufacture that’s mini and was fighting to past — nan Australian movie industry,” she told nan New York Times in 2020.
“My full cognition was get retired location and work. There’s nary chance of being selective because you’ve sewage to make money. I didn’t travel from an able family. It was ever astir being a moving actor.”
Kidman and Offerman aren’t nan only A-list actors to look successful “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
The star-studded bid besides features Elle Fanning arsenic Margo, an aspiring writer who becomes pregnant and must find a measurement to salary her bills, arsenic good arsenic Michelle Pfeiffer, Greg Kinnear, and Marcia Gay Harden, among others.
The AppleTV+ series was created by David E. Kelley and is based connected Rufi Thorpe’s caller of nan aforesaid name.