Andrea Riseborough: In British style, I walked on broken legs for two days saying, I m fine!
The Newcastle-born actress reveals how her role in Roberto Saviano s intense new mafia drama ZeroZeroZero took her to the limit
30 January 2021 • 6:00am
Researching the drug trade for new TV series ZeroZeroZero was a huge eye-opener , says Andrea Riseborough
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Once Andrea Riseborough commits to a part, she doesn’t do things by halves. Break a leg? While filming her latest role on location in the Sahara Desert, the 39-year-old English star of Birdman and The Death of Stalin broke two. “I was rehearsing a stunt, and there was some missed communication about how fast or slow we’d be going,” she tells me over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles. If the details are fuzzy, the result was clear: two fractured tibia. “And, of course,” says Riseborough, “in true British style, I walked around on them for two days, saying: ‘No, no, I’m fine!’”