Sometimes the show must go on, and that certainly was the case when Nicole Kidman arrived on set to film a scene for Apple TV series, Margo’s Got Money Troubles.
Details have emerged of the moment the Aussie star, who takes on the role of a former pro wrestler-turned-lawyer in the new show, was hospitalised after pushing herself a little too hard for one of her scenes.
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Speaking to People, Nick Offerman recalled the exact moment he realised his 59-year-old co-star was a consummate professional.
“We’re there in the morning, we’re getting warmed up – some of us are going to be performing some actual wrestling, and so we have our doubles, we have people we’re working with,” he told the US publication.
“And the word comes in that Nicole has the flu, and we might not get Nicole today. And we’re like, ‘Oh no, that’s such a bummer, because we only have the one day that we’ve built this whole circus for.’”
And then, surprise. The Moulin Rouge star arrives, practically on her deathbed.
“It’s about 8 in the morning that we get this news. Come to be about 11am, the word comes in: Nicole’s coming.”
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As she hit the set, it became clear to all just how unwell she was.
“She was so pale, shaken. She just had the flu really so bad,” Offerman recalled.
“She showed up and made sure that we got every shot of her, total superhero style, did everything we needed to so that we did not lose one scrap of what we needed for her character.”
And then she went straight to hospital “for an IV.”
The commitment wasn’t lost on her co-stars, either.
“I just said to her, I already admired you so much, but this is how you get to be Nicole Kidman, is you show up so that your show doesn’t lose a minute of your value,” he said. “It was so generous. It was astonishing.”
The flu wasn’t the reason the star thought she would be admitted to the hospital during her time on the series.
When hitting the red carpet for the series’ premiere, Kidman revealed how she was very careful to avoid injuring herself while filming scenes as her pro-wrestler character.
“When I got in the ring, I just went, ‘Okay, let’s go,’” she shared.
“Whenever I do something, I go, ‘Okay, I’ve gotta be really careful,’ and then I just forget about any sort of protection in my body, and I go crazy.”
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a series based on Rufi Thorpe’s best-selling 2024 novel of the same name.
Currently streaming on Apple TV, it stars Elle Fanning as the lead – a college dropout who is forced to think creatively in order to make a living for her and her new baby.