Christina Applegate (retd)
Actress Christina Applegate has said she's "pretty sure" that her role in Die For Me may be her last on-screen role, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
The American actress said that filming the last season of the series sometimes felt "like torture".
Applegate, who will be 50 at the end of the month, an Emmy Award winner for her guest role in the series "Friends" and who is best remembered for her character as Kelly Bundy in the series "Married Plus", announced in August 2021 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few months earlier.
Applegate stars in the black comedy "For Me You Die", the third and final season of which will be released on Netflix on Thursday, in the role of Jen Harding, a real estate agent whose husband died in a hit-and-run accident. In an interview with the Variety newspaper, which took place ahead of the actress' star awarding ceremony tomorrow (Monday) of Hollywood, Applegate said that her role in the series is "probably the last role I'll play." She explained that because of her illness, she doesn't know how much she's capable of acting in front of a camera in the future. She added that she's still "new to this" and "trying to figure it out."
Christina Applegate, January 2020 (Photo: GettyImages, Leon Bennett)
The actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the production of the series "For Me You Are Dying", candidly revealed how difficult it was for her to shoot the last season.
She said that at first she did not understand what had happened to her, as her toes and pads of her feet had been numb over time.
"I ignored it. And suddenly I fell," she said.
She added that it was necessary to take her in a wheelchair on set, that she "sleeps all the time" and that she has gained about 20 kilos since she was diagnosed.
"I was diagnosed while we were working, and I had to call everyone and say: 'I have multiple sclerosis, guys. Like, vot de paque! And then there was a kind of learning - we're all learning - what am I going to be able to do.'
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Christina Applegate in her youth (right), in her role as Kelly Bundy in the series "Married Plus" (Photo: GettyImages)
Applegate added that producing the series gave her a few months off "so I could grieve and find therapy," and rearranged the schedule every day depending on how she felt.
"You can see the struggle, and you can see it throughout the season. You can see that I'm in pain," she shared.
The actress also said that she has no plans to watch the last season herself, adding: "It's too hard for me."
However, she felt it was "too important" not to finish filming.
Although Applegate said she's "pretty sure" her role in Die For Me might be her last, she hasn't completely closed the door on acting in the future.
"It's about finding what I'm able to do. I'm so new at this right now. It takes time to understand this disease and understand what's causing the symptoms," she said.
She added that she wants to be able to work somewhere, "where they won't think I'm a diva if I say, 'Hey, I can only work five hours.'"
Applegate added that she probably won't star in the series again, adding that it "was so hard" to shoot the series "You're Dying to Me."
She also said that she "really enjoys being a mother now".
Applegate has an 11-year-old girl and a husband.
"But who knows, I'll probably get bored being in my room," she said, adding that she would still like to "develop things and produce things. I have a lot of ideas in my head and I just need to implement them."
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