Jaime King Talks About Her Scary Injury on 'Black Summer' Set

Jaime King waves to the cameras while wearing a pink outfit for a press day on Friday (April 12) in New York City.

The 39-year-old Black Summer actress recently opened up about getting injured on the set of her new Netflix series.

“I always say, we really only have between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut,’” Jaime said in a new interview with EW. “It’s like, all the preparation, all of the work, everything is in that moment. That is where the truth lives. You have to be so prepared that everything just disappears. One thing that kept happening to me on Black Summer, when the director would say ‘Action,’ I was just so in it, that when he said ‘Cut,’ I would be like, ‘Uh….’ I literally could not remember what I did. And that’s when you know you’re not acting, you know what I mean? You’re just doing, you’re just being, you’re just in it.”

“When I got injured, we had rehearsed this scene, it’s a finale scene, and I have to do something that I’ve never done before, and when they said ‘Action,’ and I did this action, I was so shaken by it that I like ran three steps back,” Jaime continued. “They had put a body behind me that they didn’t put in rehearsal. The next thing I know, I’m knocked out, and seriously, seriously injured. But of course I get back up and I’m like, ‘Just roll cameras, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go. We’ve gotta shoot, we’ve gotta shoot’. Then my costar turned to me and he was like, ‘Don’t be a f—ing hero.’ It was pretty intense.”