The Australian scream queen called the experience “truly insane” and “miraculously” healed in time to kick off production.

Samara Weaving details ‘horrendous’ injury that left her unable to walk days before shooting Ready or Not 2

The Australian scream queen called the experience "truly insane" and "miraculously" healed in time to kick off production.

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Samara Weaving in 'Ready or Not 2: Here I Come'. Credit:

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- Samara Weaving is opening up about a nasty injury that nearly prevented her from starring in *Ready or Not 2: Here I Come*.

- "I was really terribly injured before filming this and I couldn't walk," she told the *New York Post*. "I have a dead disc in my back and I had three bulging discs. It was horrendous. I couldn't move."

- Weaving was able to pull through thanks to the help of her husband, Jimmy Warden, who was "there and helped me" when she was "so high on pain meds."

Samara Weaving doesn't have to get ready, she stays ready — even through back-breaking pain.

The Australian scream queen revealed in a March 21 interview with the *New York Post** *that she came perilously close to being unable to shoot *Ready or Not 2: Here I Come**.*

"I was really terribly injured before filming this and I couldn't walk," she explained in a joint interview with Kathryn Newton, a new addition to the horror comedy franchise. "Basically, I have a dead disc in my back and I had three bulging discs. It was horrendous. I couldn't move."

Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton in 'Ready or Not 2: Here I Come'.

Searchlight Pictures/Pief Weyman

For as total and immobilizing the injury seemed, it cleared up just as decisively.

"Miraculously, I came to life," Weaving recalled. "I could walk and run like two days before shooting. It was truly insane."

The physical toll on Weaving had a ripple effect that took a morale toll on the crew, Newton shared, joking, "You should have seen the producers every day."

Among the production companies that brought the *Ready or Not*-verse back to theaters, Radio Silence Productions had the most stake in Weaving's renewed participation. Two of its founding partners, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, directed the actress in the 2019 original that brought them all a new level of fame and acclaim, and they were all attached to the sequel since it was officially confirmed in 2024.

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"Everyone was really nervous that I wouldn’t be able to do it," Weaver shared. But thanks to the constant support of her husband Jimmy Warden, who was "there and helped me" when she was "so high on pain meds," she pulled through.

"He was helping me, just feeding me. He'd have to help me to the bathroom, put me in the shower. It was rough," she shared.

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Weaving opened up about the anxiety of returning to the blood-soaked satire of the American elite class in an interview with * *last week.

"I think it's fighting the imposter syndrome of, 'I'm never gonna work again, I'll just do whatever,'" Weaving reflected, adding that eventually, she learned that way of thinking is not "fun nor good and doesn't really work out well." When she finally got her head in the game, the idea of returning to the sequel became an easy "hell yes."

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