Elisabeth Moss broke her spine filming new TV series

Elisabeth Moss suffered a broken vertebrae while filming a stunt for the upcoming spy TV series The Veil, leaving her briefly unable to move.

The actor disclosed the information during a new interview with Variety, where she confirmed that she was left lying on her back on a roof in Istanbul for two hours.

In The Veil, which premieres on Hulu on April 30, Moss plays an MI6 agent trying to stop a terrorist attack. Episode two finds her character Imogen chasing a lead through the Turkish city, when she is attacked 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 said. “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.”

Producer Denise Di Novi kept Moss company while she waited for medical treatment, saying “I felt so bad for her. She is underselling how hard a lot of the stunt was that she did.”

Moss insisted that filming on the show continued, even appearing in a scene the following day, albeit with limited mobility.

“We actually shot the next day at the airport, those are the Paris airport scenes you see [in the episode], and I actually have, like, a broken back,” Moss added. “I tried to get them to put a green blanket over me, and just VFX me out. I was like, ‘Look, just put the green blanket over me and you can scrub me out in post.’”

The Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale star confirmed in January that she is pregnant with her first child.

She also appeared in Taika Waititi’s recent film Next Goal Wins, a dramatised version of the documentary of the same name, about the beleaguered American Samoa national football team.

In 2022, she defended the Church of Scientology, of which she is a member, saying: “It’s not really a closed-off religion. It’s a place that is very open to, like, welcoming in somebody who wants to learn more about it. I think that’s the thing that is probably the most misunderstood.”