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Being an actor is such an interesting experience. Not only do you get paid to live and breathe like a different person completely unlike yourself, but oftentimes, you also get the opportunity to train or even learn new skills that pertain to the character you’re portraying.
On a recent podcast, Cape Fear actress, Amy Adams, shared how one night after coming out of one of her favorite restaurants with her family, she was able to use the skills she learned on a short-lived medical drama where she played a nurse to help save the life of a stabbing victim. Pretty incredible, right?
Amy Adams is not a nurse, but she played one on television, and the skills she acquired helped save a life.
On a recent episode of the Smartless podcast, which is hosted by none other than fellow actors, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes, actress Amy Adams shared quite a memorable story.
After dining out at their “favorite” Santa Monica restaurant, she and her family were the “first people on the scene” of a stabbing. That’s right, they stumbled upon someone who was seriously injured.
Amy recalled that it was a super intense moment as “people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling, ‘He’s dying!'” Amy’s husband, Darren Le Gallo, also pointed out that there was blood nearby.
Amy shared that she spotted a man close by who had been stabbed in the neck. Her husband stayed with their daughter, Aviana, and she ran over to the man with her father to see if there was anything they could do.
During a hectic moment, Amy felt so ‘focused,’ not unlike the nurse she played on the short-lived medical drama ‘Dr. Vegas.’
As they approached the stabbing victim, Amy recalled that “he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out.” It was in that moment that Amy felt very “focused,” as she knew to use beach towels to apply pressure to the wound and stop the blood flow.
While helping the man who had been stabbed in the neck, she told the victim that “the more you struggle, the faster you’re going to bleed. Just lay low.”
She shared with the guys on the Smartless podcast that this was medical advice she picked up when she was playing a registered nurse on the short-lived CBS medical drama, Dr. Vegas. She starred alongside Rob Lowe, who played a young doctor who lived and worked at an old school Las Vegas resort and casino. Just five episodes of the show aired before it was canceled in 2004.
Thankfully, the man who had been stabbed was fine in the end as Amy ended up running into him at a restaurant some time later. Amy recalled, “A guy walks up to me… He’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you.’ And it was him.”
Amy Adams is so believable in her acting roles that some folks can’t believe she doesn’t have an Oscar yet.
In that intense moment where she practically acted like the nurse she played on television many years ago, there are many people who are convinced that Amy Adams is so effortlessly talented in the roles she’s taken on over the years that she’s fully deserving of an Academy Award.
There are plenty of folks in this Reddit thread who are baffled that Amy Adams was not even nominated for her portray of a linguist attempting to communicate with aliens in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi drama, Arrival.
One person shared, “I LOVE this film! Absolutely fantastic sci fi film and Amy Adams is one of the best actors of her generation.” Another individual in the thread shared that they thought that she has been long-deserving of an Oscar. “She deserved that Oscar all the way back to Junebug, IMO,” they wrote. Junebug is a 2005 indie movie that earned Amy her first Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of a young pregnant woman.
With all of this chatter about Amy’s acting talents and learning of her quick thinking medical skills that have stuck around for all these years, we can’t help but wonder if she’s up for playing a doctor anytime soon? We’d go see it!
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