Amy Adams learned some valuable life skills after playing a nurse on a short-lived TV show.
During an appearance on the “SmartLess” podcast on Monday, June 22, the Oscar nominee revealed how she sprang into action after coming across a stabbing victim while out with her family.
Adams, 51, knew just what to do after playing nurse Alice Doherty in CBS’ Dr. Vegas, which starred Rob Lowe and aired for just five episodes in 2004. To prepare for the role, the actress said she shadowed an emergency room doctor.
“I’ve come across a couple of scenes where we’ve been sort of the first people on the scene,” she said. “We were in Santa Monica and coming out of our favorite restaurant and I was with my dad and these people were screaming and a guy was walking and they’re yelling, ‘He’s dying!’ and my husband’s like, ‘That’s blood.’”
After directing her husband, Darren Le Gallo, to stay put with their daughter Aviana, 16, Adams and her dad rushed to the man’s aid.
“We ran over, and he’d been stabbed in the neck,” the Enchanted actress recalled. “So he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out. So luckily we were going to the beach. We grabbed towels. My dad has been on lots of scenes — I guess he attracts them as well — and applied pressure.”
“And I’m sitting there somehow going, ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in.’ I literally was just so focused. I was like, ‘The more you struggle, the faster you’re going to bleed. Just lay down. Let’s elevate this,’” she continued.
As for how the man ended up wounded, Adams said, “I mean, as far as I could make out, they had run into an old college friend and had some drinks and then went to the liquor store. They were going to go back to someone’s house, and he just freaked out. I don’t know kind of what the whole story is.”
A year after her heroic efforts, the Man of Steel actor said she ran into the person she saved.
“A guy walks up to me in the restaurant. He’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed,’” she remembered. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s so funny you heard that story.’”
The man then showed Adams the scar on his neck.
“And I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s you.’ And it was him, and he was like all teary, and he had his son with him. It was so crazy,” the actress said.
