The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss is back on FX and Hulu with a new series, The Veil, in which the Emmy-winning actress plays a British MI6 agent. But Moss reportedly suffered a serious injury while filming the thrilling new series.
Speaking to Variety, Moss said the injury occurred while filming a scene in Episode 2 that shows her chasing an enemy across a rooftop in Istanbul.
“The [scene] you see in the show is actually the second time we shot it, about six weeks later,” she said. “The first time we shot it I hit a wall the wrong way, let’s just say, and ended up lying on the roof for a couple hours.”
The Veil producer Denise Di Novi elaborated further on the incident. “I felt so bad for her,” she said, revealing that Moss “fractured a vertebra really badly.”
Di Novi noted that Moss returned to set the very next day so that production would not be delayed. “She is underselling how hard a lot of the stunt was that she did,” Di Novi said of the actress.
The scenes in question were of Moss in an airport in Paris. ” I actually have, like, a broken back,” she said. “I tried to get them to put a green blanket over me, and just VFX me out. I was like, ‘Look, just put the green blanket over me and you can scrub me out in post.’”
However, the actress appeared grateful that they were later able to return to that fateful rooftop in Istanbul to try the stunt again.
“Well, I didn’t know if we were going to be able to come back and shoot on this rooftop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul,” she said. “It’s not like that is an easy thing to accomplish. But luckily, we, as a production, and then FX, thank God, let us go back and shoot it again. Which was incredible, an incredible opportunity.”
Moss has been injured on set before. She once injured her neck while filming The Invisible Man, just weeks before she went on to play Shirley Jackson in a 2019 biopic.
“It was about two weeks before I started, so I was actually in extreme pain for most of that movie, which begs the question, perhaps I should just throw my neck out before starting any highly dramatic role,” she said. “For Shirley, it weirdly helped because she is in pain a lot of the time, physical pain, which is why she’s popping pills and drinking.”
The Veil premieres on Hulu April 30.
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