Warnie stars hospitalised after romantic romp goes painfully wrong
The stars of Channel Nine’s Warnie miniseries have quite the emergency room story to share after filming a sex scene for the show hit them for six.
Alex Williams and Marny Kennedy - the pair embodying the late Shane Warne and his ex-wife Simone Callahan on screen - were filming in Melbourne late in 2022 when the incident occurred.
And while they can see the funny side of it all now, at the time it was a far more embarrassing - and injury-stricken - affair.
As Kennedy told The Daily Telegraph, the two had been filming “a little makeout scene” - set back when Shane and Simone were in their younger years - when things took a turn.
She detailed how they had been going down a corridor, and “were meant to push into the bedroom and land on the bed”. But, unfortunately for the pair, they didn’t heed the Warne-ing, and instead they “both completely missed the bed.
“Alex cracked the back of his head open and I broke my right wrist.”
Kennedy shared that they “ended up sitting in the emergency room together”, and that his head was wrapped in a bandage, while her wrist was strapped.
To add to their situation, Kennedy said, “it was not like a normal hospital either, it was more of a place for the elderly, so it was just Alex and I with our bleached hair, fully still in wardrobe, sitting there surrounded by elderly residents.”
Despite their injuries, and any lingering embarrassment, the co-stars - who had also been friends for a decade at that point - returned to set the very next day to get on with the job.
Kennedy didn’t reveal whether or not anyone had taken the opportunity to adorn her cast with a Golden Duck, but that there had been some banter on set in the wake of their accident, with the actress revealing that “we took a photo of ourselves in the emergency room and then printed it onto mugs and that was our wrap [end of filming] gift to a lot of the crew."
It is believed that the two-part series will go to air later in June, regardless of the public outcry when the trailer first dropped during the 2023 State of Origin series.
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