Jenna Fischer put her performing expertise to the take a look at on the set of 2024’s Imply Ladies. The actress revealed this week she filmed the film with a damaged shoulder.
“I shot for in the future on Imply Ladies, after which I didn’t need to shoot for a month,” Fischer advised Folks. “And in that month I went on a ski journey and I fell on a sidewalk and I broke my shoulder. So I needed to shoot the remainder of the film with a really newly damaged shoulder.”
Fischer performed Ms. Heron, the daughter of protagonist Cady (Angourie Rice) within the musical film. After she returned along with her arm in a sling, the actress stated the crew bought inventive in accommodating the damage.
“When you discover within the film, I’m completely gesturing with my left arm,” she stated. “It was the wildest expertise. So an enormous a part of my function in Imply Ladies was pretending I didn’t have a damaged shoulder.”
She continued with a couple of easter eggs for eagle-eyed followers: “When you discover within the opening shot of the film, I’m out in the course of a area and Cady is singing, and I’ve a crossbody bag on. And I’m holding my crossbody bag,” she stated. “The explanation I’m doing that’s as a result of I needed to take my sling off. That was serving as a sling for me.”
Fischer has since been on the lengthy highway to restoration. “I’m nonetheless in bodily remedy for it,” she stated. “I’m nonetheless rehabbing it. It’s an advanced damage, as anybody who’s injured their shoulder will let you know.”
Regardless of the one-armed changes, Fischer stated Imply Ladies was an “superb expertise.”
“I used to be so excited in regards to the response to that film as a result of the folks in that film have been so genuinely form and fantastic and proficient,” she stated. “That younger forged was simply excellent and it was a type of issues the place, if you end taking pictures it, you assume to your self, ‘Gosh, I hope this film does properly as a result of this can be a good group.’ You need the nice man to win, proper? So I used to be actually rooting for it.”
Imply Ladies additionally featured actors Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wooden, Christopher Briney, Busy Philipps and Jon Hamm. Lindsay Lohan, the star of the unique 2004 film, made a cameo within the new movie, and Tina Fey and Tim Meadows reprised their roles as a math instructor and the principal of North Shore Excessive Faculty, respectively.