Elizabeth Hurley Reveals Why It Was a ‘Nightmare’ Working With Matthew Perry on ‘Serving Sara’ While He Was Battling Addiction

11.11.2022 - 03:25 / usmagazine.com

Putting on a show. Elizabeth Hurley recalled what it was really like working alongside Matthew Perry amid his addiction battle.

“I have very fond memories of him,” Hurley, 57, told Yahoo! Entertainment on Wednesday, November 9, before reflecting on their 2002 rom-com, Serving Sara. “To be honest, it was a nightmare working with him at that time and, as it’s now known, our movie was shut down because of his addiction.”

The Royals alum explained: “We were in a force majeure and had to all sit at home twiddling our thumbs for some time.”

Perry, 53, detailed his ups and downs with drugs in his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. In the book, which hit stores on November 1, the Friends alum revealed that production on Serving Sara was halted so he could go to rehab.

He claimed that both Hurley and their director, Reginald Hudlin, were “pissed off” over the shutdown, which he completely understood.

“That was a little tough,” the English actress said on Wednesday, noting that when Perry returned to set “he was fabulous.” Hurley recalled the 17 Again actor having to “revoice everything that we shot before” his two-month stay at the rehabilitation center.

The Odd Couple alum, for his part, explained in his book that he rerecorded the movie dialogue because he was slurring his words the first time around. “Of course, the movie tanked anyway,” Perry wrote. “I was paid $3.5 million to do the movie and I got sued for the shutdown, even though it was a health issue. At the mediation table a team of insurance flacks faced me down, so I just wrote them a check for $650,000.”

Hurley explained on Wednesday that she was aware at the time that her costar was struggling. “It was tough, obviously he was having a tough time, but