The actress who stars in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss, got a serious back injury while filming a stunt for her new show “The Veil.”
Before the debut of the series on April 30, she talked about a scene where her character Imogen fights off an attacker on a rooftop in Istanbul. In the show, Moss plays an MI6 agent trying to stop an ISIS attack on the United States.
“We trained for a long time, but it turns out it wasn't enough because during the first take of the scene, I did something wrong and ended up breaking my back,” Moss previously told Jimmy Kimmel in January. “It wasn't anyone's fault, and I ended up breaking my back by hitting a wall.”
A spokesperson for the actress confirmed her injury to TheWrap on Wednesday.
Moss had to lie on the rooftop for two hours before being able to go down six flights of stairs to have her injury checked, and that's when she found out she had “fractured a vertebra.”
Leading up to the debut of “The Veil,” Moss and producer Denise Di Novi shared more about the incident and the difficulty of the stunt.
“I felt bad for her,” Di Novi told Variety in an interview on Wednesday. “She's not fully describing how challenging the stunt really was.”
“I didn't know if we were going to be able to return to film on the rooftop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. It wasn't an easy task, but fortunately, as a production, and then FX, allowed us to go back and reshoot it, which was amazing,” Moss added.
“The Veil” will premiere on Tuesday, April 30, on Hulu.
