Amy Adams shared a story this week about how she once helped save a man who had been stabbed in the neck using tips from a TV role. Adams made this revelation on the most recent episode of the Smartless podcast.
During her appearance on the show hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, Amy Adams recalled that she and her family had just finished dining at a Santa Monica restaurant when they came upon a man who had been stabbed in the neck.
“I’ve come across a couple of scenes where we’ve been sort of the first people on the scene,” Amy Adams recalled. “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!’ And I was like, ‘Darren, you stay here with our daughter.’ We ran over and he’d been stabbed in the neck.
“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.'”
Amy Adams ran into the stabbing victim a year later
“A guy walks up to me in the restaurant,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s so funny. You heard that story.’ And he went like that. And I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s you.’ And it was him. And it was him and he was like all teary and he had his son with him. Yeah, it was so crazy.”
She was then asked if she had ever played a medical professional and recalled that she had, in fact, been on a TV show called Dr. Vegas, which starred Rob Lowe and had just five episodes aired on CBS before it was canceled.
Adams was also asked if the guy ever explained why he had been stabbed that night.
“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,” she recalled. “They were going to go back to someone’s house and he just freaked out. Um, but I don’t know kind of what the whole story is.”