Emma Thompson says an harm on the set of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical made her cease and replicate on life as an getting old performer.

Talking to Folks forward of the film’s Dec. 25 streaming launch, the Oscar-winning actress shared how she navigated an ankle fracture she obtained whereas filming the musical, which stars the Good Luck to You, Leo Grande actress as villain Agatha Trunchbull reverse Lashana Lynch’s Miss Honey and Alisha Weir’s Matilda Wormwood. It was an harm she chalked as much as getting old.

“I fell over for no good motive and fractured my ankle, and I believed, ‘That’s sort of bizarre, I’ve by no means harm myself like that. Huh, that’s as a result of I’m getting older,’” Thompson recalled pondering.

The actress stated the harm required her to make use of a foot boot, which she was apologetic for as Thompson thought it might imply she’d doubtless have to take a seat out any stunt work the movie had deliberate for her till it was off.

“I stated, ‘I’m so sorry, I’ve obtained to put on the boot,’” Thompson recounted. “They stated, ‘It’s OK, you’re doing a stunt in the present day.’ I stated, ‘What? I’ve simply fractured my ankle.’”

Thompson added that the manufacturing confidently pushed forward regardless of her personal hesitations about it being doable as a result of nature of the stunt. “They stated, ‘It’s OK, we’re simply turning you the other way up. It’s effective, you’re on a crane,’” she defined. “I stated, ‘OK, all proper then.’”

The expertise was one which gave the Matilda star a bit of pause as she realized “I used to be form of not as invulnerable as I believed.”

“While I’m robust, as a result of I’m getting older, I can harm myself, and that was fascinating,” she stated of the incident. “My physique’s altering and I’ve obtained to be extra cautious with it.”