During a 2020 appearance on “Good Morning America,” Blake Lively spoke about injuring her hand on-set. “I was lunging towards Jude Law with my fake rubber knife and my hand collided with his elbow and I broke some things, dislocated some things, and severed a ligament. It was pretty intense,” Lively said (via People Magazine). The actress got even more graphic during an appearance on “The Tonight Show,” telling host Jimmy Fallon, “I punched [Jude’s] elbow, which you don’t really want to punch someone’s elbow, you want to aim for the face. My hand just basically turned into party confetti. It was just like, ‘Pow’ upon contact.”
Lively’s injury stopped production for six months while she underwent two surgeries. When she resumed filming, she had a bandage on her right hand. “We were only a few weeks into production, so most of the fight sequences that you do see in the movie are after that, which is why my hand is wrapped,” she explained, to Extra. “There’s a glass-hand injury that happens in the movie that wasn’t real, we just had to explain the other injury.”
Lively’s brave performance drew praise from her co-star. In an interview with WhereIsTheBuzz, Law shared what he loved about the film, explaining, “It’s really hard to get stuff, I think, understated and real and that’s been the case both on-set and in the costumes.” Of course, there was nothing understated about Lively’s injury!
