Leave it to a pro like Nicole Kidman to get the shot, through sickness or health, like she did with a recent guest appearance.
Following her appearance on Margo’s Got Money Troubles as wrestler Lace, the Oscar winner’s co-star Nick Offerman praised her for working while flu-stricken to get what the show needed with a “huge set piece” of a wrestling fan convention, featuring “hundreds of extras.”
“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 explained to People. “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.’”
Offerman added, “It’s about 8:00 in the morning that we get this news. Come to be about 11:00 a.m., the word comes in: Nicole’s coming.”
The Emmy-winning actor recalled Kidman was “so sick” when she arrived to set, explaining that she was “so pale, shaken” and “had the flu really so bad,” but she “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.”
Nick Offerman in ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
After Kidman wrapped, Offerman said she “was literally taken to the hospital for an IV.”
“And 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,” added Offerman. “It was so generous. It was astonishing.”
With her performance as a lawyer/wrestler who reunites in the ring with Offerman’s Jinx, showrunner David E. Kelley told Deadline that Kidman “embraced” the role.
“I thought, ‘Okay, we’re going to throw this character at her, a lawyer slash wrestler, and Nicole is going to say, “Now you’ve taken it too far. I’m not going to do that.”‘ But she embraced it. She [said], ‘Okay. Can I jump in the ring and actually wrestle?’ And she was fantastic in it. She was believable in the ring, and she was believable as a lawyer. So there’s a reason she gets all those job opportunities. She’s pretty good at her craft.”
Based on Rufi Thorpe’s 2024 novel, new episodes of Margo’s Got Money Troubles are available Wednesdays on Apple TV+.
