Elisabeth Moss Fractured Her Spine While Filming FX’s ‘The Veil’
variety.comHunter Ingram While filming a stunt for her new FX spy series “The Veil,” Elisabeth Moss fractured a vertebrae in her back, hurting herself seriously enough that it left her lying on a roof in Istanbul for two hours.
The Emmy-winning actor spoke about the serious injury during an interview with Variety promoting the new series from creator Steven Knight, which premieres on Hulu on April 30.
In the ticking-clock series, Moss plays Imogen, an undercover MI6 agent trying to stop an ISIS terrorist attack planned for the United States.
In Episode 2, Imogen and a rumored ISIS commander named Adilah (Yumna Marwan) are passing through Istanbul when Imogen must fend off an attack from an assailant on a rooftop above the Grand Bazaar. “The [scene] you see in the show is actually the second time we shot it, about six weeks later,” Moss says. “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.” At Moss’ side while she lay on the roof was her producing partner Denise Di Novi, who waited with her while she was examined. “I felt so bad for her,” Di Novi says.
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