{"id":491456,"date":"2026-06-23T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491456\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:49:09","slug":"amy-adams-reveals-how-acting-role-helped-her-rescue-stabbing-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491456\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Adams reveals how acting role helped her rescue stabbing victim"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019m sitting there somehow going: \u2018You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in\u2019. Like, I literally was just so focused. I was like: \u2018The more you struggle, the faster you\u2019re going to bleed. Just lay down. Let\u2019s elevate this\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor went on to credit her stint in 2004 medical TV series Dr. Vegas with giving her some basic knowledge of first aid.<\/p>\n
Adams revealed the stabbing victim survived and she ran into him in a restaurant about a year later.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cA guy walks up to me in a restaurant. He\u2019s like: \u2018I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed.\u2019 And I was like: \u2018Yeah, yeah, that\u2019s so funny you heard that story\u2019 … I was like: \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s you!\u2019 And it was him. And he was all teary and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amy Adams rushed to help a man bleeding from a neck wound in Santa Monica. The victim survived and later thanked her when they met in a restaurant. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
When asked about the details surrounding the stabbing, Adams said she had no idea what really took place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, as far as I could make out, they had run into an old college friend and had some drinks and went to the liquor store. They were going to go back to someone\u2019s house and he just freaked out. But I don\u2019t know kind of what the whole story is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m sitting there somehow going: \u2018You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in\u2019. Like,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5813,2948,25519,64570,2837,156,1888,9832,1364,221,91994,424,3523,111,139,69,8527,1517,205,17162,1305,16708,15163,162551,3382,1337],"class_list":["post-491456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-acting","tag-adams","tag-amy","tag-brief","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-helped","tag-her","tag-how","tag-learnt","tag-life","tag-medical","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rescue","tag-reveals","tag-role","tag-saved","tag-show","tag-skills","tag-stabbing","tag-stint","tag-using","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}