Aisling Bea has opened up about her horrifying accident that left her arm ‘hanging off’.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show this week the comedian, 40, revealed she got ‘knocked down off her bike in the pandemic’ which left her needing surgery to have her shoulder ‘totally reconstructed’.
She said: ‘I was supposed to have keyhole surgery on my shoulder from an accident two days beforehand but when I went in, they found out my arm was hanging off.
‘They had to go in and totally reconstruct my shoulder while I was asleep. I got knocked down off my bike in the pandemic.’
Aisling was due to start filming the second series of fellow comedian Romesh Ranganathan comedy-series Avoidance but the script had to be adapted to include her sling.
Aisling Bea has opened up about her horrifying accident that left her arm ‘hanging off’ during an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show on Thursday
The comedian, 40, revealed she got ‘knocked down off her bike in the pandemic’ which left her needing surgery to have her shoulder ‘totally reconstructed’
She admitted she was ‘out of her head on painkillers’ while on set and due to the sling was not able to ‘move very much’.
The actress, who played Megan, added: ‘We were scheduled to film for a week and a half. Out of my head on painkillers. I just remember it as one long day.
‘We had to make my sling part of the character but I really couldn’t move very much.’
The series follows Romesh’s character Jonathan who has reinvented himself in the second series. He has a new body, a new hobby, and a lot of lycra, but he’s still stuck avoiding conflict and all the mess that causes.
Jonathan is determined to win back his ex-partner Claire (Jessica Knappett) and rebuild his family and make son, Spencer (Kieran Logendra) happy.
However, any chance of their love rekindling is complicated by new love interest Megan (Aisling).
Talking about filming intimate scenes and whether it’s more difficult being close friends with co-star Ramesh, Aisling said: ‘Totally harder. The two of us had one scene where we had to kiss for the first time for as long as Jessica Knappett, who is an amazing actress, came in the back and we’d split our heads apart and Jess would be there.
‘It took longer for her to open the door than we thought! I knew I was doing bad kissing. When they finally called ‘cut’ I said “You’re not going to tell Josh Widdicombe, James Acaster and all the lads about us kissing are you?”.
She said: ‘I was supposed to have keyhole surgery on my shoulder from an accident but when I went in, they found out my arm was hanging off. They had to totally reconstruct my shoulder’
Aisling was due to start filming the second series of fellow comedian Romesh Ranganathan comedy-series Avoidance but the script had to be adapted to include her sling
She admitted she was ‘out of her head on painkillers’ while on set and due to the sling was not able to ‘move very much’
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