Hollywood actress Jodie Comer spends hours in freezing water filming a survival film

Actress Jodie Comer spent hours in freezing water and immersed herself in pregnancy studies in her latest challenging role.

The actress plays a terrified new mother named only “Mother” in the upcoming climate change drama, “The End Where We Begin,” who desperately tries to keep her baby Zeb safe when she is forced to flee her London home amid catastrophic floods. .

Director Mahalia Bello said Comer, who does not have any children, was happy to accept the grueling shoot, which included braving sub-zero waters near Lochgilphead, in Argyll and Bute, according to aceshowbiz.com.

The Sunday Mirror quoted the director as saying: “It was freezing. We talked to Judy and she wanted to do it.

“She is a believer in the truth and felt that’s what the character would do. She was so beautiful and I just went for it,” the director gushed.

Judy shot the film for 30 days between her play “Prima Facie,” in which she plays a lawyer who is raped by a colleague, and moves from London to Broadway.

“We wanted to tell a woman’s story from conception to that first year as truthfully as possible,” Mahalia added of how Jodi spent hours getting prosthetic baby bellies suitable for her role as a mother. “(Jodi wanted) to serve her right. It felt so real! We also Make-up for stretch marks and prosthetics a few weeks after the abdomen.

Jodi told Channel 4 of the lengths she went to to make the film: “She wasn’t a mum, it was about getting to the bottom of the way you hold your body when you have a baby, the way you feel pain, the stages of labour… to make it feel real As much as possible.