While some movie stars wear their injuries and battle scars like badges of honour, Aussie actor Samara Weaving wishes hers was a little more \u201cbad-ass\u201d. <\/p>\n
Tom Cruise famously broke his ankle leaping between buildings on Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout, Daniel Craig suffered a litany of injuries during his stint as James Bond, and Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament during the epic fight scenes on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. <\/p>\n
By comparison, just before filming the sequel to her 2019 horror hit Ready Or Not, Scream Queen Weaving was left immobilised after putting her back out \u2013 while making her bed. <\/p>\n
\u201cI guess I have a dead disc in my back and three bulging discs that I just didn\u2019t know about,\u201d she says slightly sheepishly over Zoom call from Los Angeles alongside her Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come co-star Kathryn Newton. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t even doing anything cool \u2013 I was just making the bed one day and didn\u2019t get back up. I just hit the ground and then I was in hospital, I had to get an epidural, I was on steroids, it was bananas. <\/p>\n
\u201cTwo days before we started shooting, the swelling on my spinal cord went down, it was like a miracle.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then I could fight people again. I wish I could say it went out doing something bad-ass but it wasn\u2019t at all. I was just picking up a pillow.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there was one silver lining to Weaving\u2019s stint in hospital, it gave her a chance to better get to know Newton, who plays her sister in Ready Or Not 2. <\/p>\n
The pair had worked together nearly a decade ago on 2017 the Oscar-nominated black comedy crime hit Three Billboards in Ebbing Missouri, but the enforced downtime gave them an opportunity to renew their bond \u2013 especially given they knew they would have to spend a fair chunk of the movie literally chained together. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe made an effort,\u201d the clearly impressed Newton says. \u201cWe got our nails done and she was basically bedridden, paralysed, couldn\u2019t walk \u2013 her back was out and she did it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the original horror-comedy Ready Or Not, which made nearly ten times its $8.5 million budget and earned a cult following, Weaving played new bride Grace. On her wedding night, Grace discovers that her new family belong to a satanic cult and as part of a deal with the Devil in exchange for their money and power, they are obliged to offer the newcomer up as a human sacrifice. <\/p>\n
Grace naturally has other ideas and after a night of extreme carnage \u2013 in which her pristine white wedding dress turns red with blood \u2013 emerges as the last one standing when the Devil comes to take his due. <\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s being released seven years later, the sequel picks up right where the original left off, with Grace inadvertently dragging her sister into a fresh deadly hunt when other elite, entitled families from around the world emerge to fill the cabal\u2019s leadership vacuum left by her late in-laws. <\/p>\n
Despite the success of the original, which left a cultural footprint in the form of the growing number of women decked out in bloody wedding dresses for Halloween, Weaving was as surprised as anyone to reprise the role. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo one thought we would be making a second one,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it\u2019s so great that really the fans generated the existence of another one. We all were so excited to get the team back together.\u201d <\/p>\n
After filming the first movie in Toronto in the snowy depths of the Canadian winter, Weaving was grateful for a spring shoot this time. But she knew that for better or worse some things would never change thanks to the gory, blood-spattered fight scenes as Grace once again has to fight back against her would-be killers. <\/p>\n
\u201cI guess when you are getting covered in goo at 4am, that\u2019s never going to be a great time,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cThat I wasn\u2019t looking forward to. But then also weirdly I kind of was because we got to do it again. So it comes with the territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Newton, who also has impeccable horror credentials in the genre thanks to her roles in Paranormal Activity 4, Freaky, Lisa Frankenstein and Abigail, was one of the many fans of the genre struck by the image of the blood-spattered Weaving wreaking her revenge in the first film. She was surprised by the level of action required of her on set \u2013 \u201cthe movie started at an 11 and it never went down\u201d \u2013 but despite the high intensity scenes, Newton says she was \u201cjust so happy every day\u201d. <\/p>\n
Part of that was down to the presence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer star and veteran Scream Queen Sarah Michelle Gellar, to whom Newton says she partly owes her career. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was so excited,\u201d Newton says of Gellar, who plays one of murderous elites. \u201cI think I felt something change \u2026 the air changed, the world stopped for a moment because I felt like it was a big deal. <\/p>\n
\u201cA Grace character doesn\u2019t exist unless there was a Buffy character and then I don\u2019t exist without this as well. I just felt like it was a nice universe coming together. And I mostly just didn\u2019t want to hurt her or break her or anything. But she is tough \u2013 there was no sense in acting like that but I was really honoured and excited to meet her.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the action of Ready or Not 2, not to mention the rapturous reception it got at the hip SXSW Festival in Texas this week, Weaving is looking forward to some down time. The Adelaide-born 34-year-old is expecting her first child with husband Jimmy Warden, the American writer and director she met on the set of the 2017 black comedy slasher film The Babysitter. <\/p>\n
Though Los Angeles is now their base, Weaving says she\u2019s looking forward to a long-overdue trip back home in the coming months. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping to be there maybe July and just see all my family and jump in that ocean,\u201d Weaving says wistfully. \u201cI really miss Australia so much.\u201d <\/p>\n
As to whether her firstborn is to be brought up very much in touch with her Aussie roots, Weaving says \u201cabsolutely, I won\u2019t have it any other way\u201d, before realising. \u201cOh my God \u2013 is she going to have an American accent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to happen,\u201d interjects Newton. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt will won\u2019t it?,\u201d Weaving agrees. \u201cDamn it. I\u2019ll have to give her lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come is in cinemas now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some movie stars wear their injuries and battle scars like badges of honour, Aussie actor Samara Weaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2095,273601,273603,64,63,689,3539,273588,273593,273589,273585,485,2065,273599,447,273591,62118,134,273587,273581,273600,60613,2105,179476,273590,273594,273592,273596,30108,138998,273595,481,12358,59407,273598,273583,2041,2067,677,3797,155204,273602,273597,39031,101190,273582,24571,208772,3370,17689,3920,2614,273586,273584],"class_list":["post-553311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-america","tag-american-accent","tag-american-writer","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-back-injury","tag-black-comedy","tag-black-comedy-crime","tag-black-comedy-slasher","tag-blood-spattered-fight-scenes","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-canadian-winter","tag-celebrities","tag-comedy-slasher-film","tag-daniel-craig","tag-entertainment","tag-epic-fight-scenes","tag-extreme-carnage","tag-fight-scenes","tag-getting-ready","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grace","tag-horror-sequeljames","tag-human-sacrifice","tag-impeccable-horror-credentials","tag-intensity-scenes","tag-james-bond","tag-kathryn-newton","tag-longtime-friend","tag-los-angeles","tag-margot-robbie","tag-michelle-yeoh","tag-movie-stars","tag-national-film-writer","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-ontario","tag-photo-credit","tag-pre-film-back-injury","tag-sami-drasin","tag-sarah-michelle-gellar","tag-searchlight-pictures","tag-sequel-picks","tag-silver-lining","tag-spinal-cord","tag-texas","tag-tom-cruise","tag-toronto","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-wedding-night","tag-would-be-killers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}