Why ‘Superhero’ Nicole Kidman was rushed to hospital after filming her first ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles’ scenes

Nicole Kidman powered through illness to film a major scene for the series ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles’, according to her co-star Nick Offerman, who described the effort as “total superhero style.”

Kidman, 58, who serves as an executive producer and stars in the show, made her first appearance as former professional wrestler Lace in the April 22 episode. It was her first day on set, Offerman, 55, told PEOPLE. In the episode, her character reunites with Jinx, played by Offerman, at a fan convention alongside his daughter Margo, portrayed by Elle Fanning.

Offerman said the sequence was a “huge set piece” involving “hundreds of extras,” and production nearly stalled when concerns arose about Kidman’s health. “We’re there in the morning, we’re getting warmed up — some of us are going to be performing some actual wrestling, and so we have our doubles, we have people we’re working with,” he said. “And the word comes in that Nicole has the flu, and we might not get Nicole today. And we’re like, ‘Oh no, that’s such a bummer, because we only have the one day that we’ve built this whole circus for.’”


“It’s about 8:00 in the morning that we get this news. Come to be about 11:00 a.m., the word comes in: Nicole’s coming,” Offerman further stated.

He said Kidman arrived “so sick,” describing her as “so pale, shaken. She just had the flu really so bad.” Despite that, Offerman said, “she showed up and made sure that we got every shot of her, total superhero style, did everything we needed to so that we did not lose one scrap of what we needed for her character.”

After completing filming, Offerman said Kidman “was literally taken to the hospital for an IV.” “And I just said to her, I already admired you so much, but this is how you get to be Nicole Kidman, is you show up so that your show doesn’t lose a minute of your value,” he said. “It was so generous. It was astonishing,” he told PEOPLE.

The series is based on Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling 2024 novel and follows Margo, a recent college dropout and aspiring writer navigating life with a new baby and mounting financial pressures. New episodes of ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ are released Wednesdays on Apple TV+.