Hollywood star Amy Adams has revealed that she once saved the life of a stabbing victim with the skills she learned from playing a nurse on CBS medical drama Dr Vegas.
The actor and her family were the first people on the scene of the crime as they walked out of a restaurant in Santa Monica. "These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling, 'He's dying!' And my husband's like, 'That's blood!'" Adams recalled on Smartless podcast.
The Arrival star said the man had been stabbed in the neck and she and her father rushed in to help, while her husband stayed with their daughter.
"He was bleeding and his friends were freaking out," Adams said, recalling how she felt very "focused" in the moment and used beach towels to apply pressure and stop the flow of blood. She also calmed the victim and asked him to lay down.
This was advice she learned playing registered nurse Alice Doherty in Dr. Vegas which ran for just five episodes on CBS in 2004. The show starred Rob Lowe as Dr. Billy Grant, a young doctor who lives and works in an old-school Las Vegas resort and casino, reported Variety.
Adams said a year after the incident, she ran into the stabbing victim at a restaurant. "A guy walks up to me. 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, 'Oh my God, it's you.' And it was him."
On the work front, Amy Adams can be currently seen in Cape Fear, written and showrun by Nick Antosca. The ten-episode thriller series from Apple TV has Patrick Wilson and Javier Bardem playing lead roles.
