Samara Weaving feared she’d have to pull out of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come after a back injury left her unable to move.
Samara Weaving was left unable to move after suffering a back injury, but made a “miraculous” recovery just two days before she started shooting Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
The 34-year-old star has reprised her role as Grace MacCaullay in the comedy horror sequel but she revealed her part in the project was in doubt after suffering “horrendous” problems with the discs in her spine.
But fortunately, Samara’s injury abruptly cleared up ahead of the shoot.
She told the New York Post newspaper: “I was really terribly injured before filming this and I couldn’t walk.
“Basically, I have a dead disc in my back and I had three bulging discs. It was horrendous. I couldn’t move.
“Miraculously, I came to life. I could walk and run like two days before shooting. It was truly insane…
“Everyone was really nervous that I wouldn’t be able to do it.”
Samara praised her husband Jimmy Warden for his support and help when she was “so high on pain meds”, she could barely function.
She said: “He was helping me, just feeding me. He’d have to help me to the bathroom, put me in the shower. It was rough.”
Samara recently admitted there was “a lot of pressure” to top the original 2019 film with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
Asked how the sequel materialised, Samara told Entertainment Weekly: “We weren’t talking about it seriously on the first movie. We really didn’t know how people were gonna take it, but when it did quite well, and then the fan base kept growing even after it wasn’t in theatres anymore, we were flirting with the idea.
“And then I didn’t know if it had been too long. It was always sort of this in-the-background conversation, and then suddenly it started to become quite real.
“We wanted to make sure that we made the best sequel possible, which is tough. There’s a lot of pressure to top that first one. I don’t think we would do it if we didn’t all love each other so much, because it is hard work making something like that.”
The Snake Eyes actress explained that she wanted to take a slightly different approach to her portrayal of Grace in the picture – which also stars Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood.
She said: “I like to map out the character’s arc. With the first one, I really wanted to avoid playing the same emotional beat over and over again.
“I was like, how can we see her in denial and then bargaining and then getting really mad about it and then being at a level of acceptance around it – having different colours of fear, essentially, and survival.
“What was great (for the sequel) was having Kathryn in the scenes with me. Having someone new to the experience, that was the key because I could bounce off of her.”
Samara Weaving suffered agonising back injury
