Twisters has had a lasting impact on Daisy Edgar-Jones, but not necessarily in the way that she wanted.
During a recent episode of Jake Shane‘s Therapuss podcast, the actress revealed that she might be “slightly deaf” in one ear after shooting the 2024 action-adventure thriller, directed by Lee Isaac Chung.
“I think I still am slightly deaf in my left ear because there was so much debris and wind that was entering from a sharp left,” she said. “It was a windy shoot. It was quite ironic because we were shooting in Oklahoma and often would have to shut down filming because of an actual wind storm, to then recreate a wind storm once it’s passed. It was a wild experience.”
Twisters, which served as a standalone sequel, came nearly two decades after 1996’s Twister. The film followed Kate Carter (Edgar-Jones), a retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist who is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies. There, she meets Tyler Owens (played by Glen Powell), a content creator who posts his storm-chasing adventures.
The Sense and Sensibility star definitely wasn’t afraid to get in on the action, previously telling The Hollywood Reporter that she got “a bit addicted” to doing stunts after filming Twisters.
“It was so stunt heavy and I’d never done really proper stunts, so I was so curious to see how they were going to achieve a lot of the action sequences, but I’m a bit addicted now, I’ve got the bug,” Edgar-Jones said in 2024. “It was so much fun. I mean we had a phenomenal stunt department who really just helped to immerse us in it, also keep us safe. Most of the stunts were sort of being battered by wind, rain and debris so it was definitely an interesting filming experience.”
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