'The Flight Attendant' Star Rosie Perez Revealed She Had Coronavirus A Year Ago

Spoiler warning: This interview reveals plot points of “The Flight Attendant.” Merle Dandridge wanted to be a flight attendant. More specifically, she wanted to play one — the accidentally treasonous flight attendant Megan on the HBO Max hit “The Flight Attendant.” The part eventually went to Rosie Perez, but Dandridge’s audition was so memorable that the production brought her back for another part entirely, that of F.B.I.

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Rosie Perez had her own frightening experience with COVID-19, even before the United States battled the deadly disease.It was this time last year that the actress was fighting for her life inside a Bangkok hospital. Perez, 56, caught the coronavirus while she was shooting, and now she's sharing her terrifying health scare with ET.«I end up being severely ill to the point where they had to bring a doctor on set,» Perez told ET's Kevin Frazier.

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telling Uproxx she contracted the lethal virus a year ago.The 56-year-old actress, who currently stars in HBO Max’s “The Flight Attendant,” said she “contracted COVID when we flew to Bangkok,” to shoot the new series.“At that time, they were saying it’s a new respiratory tract infection. It’s a virus that’s going around.

Rosie Perez remembers her Covid-19 diagnosis in the early days of the pandemic as so “terrifying” she pleaded with her manager, “Don’t let me die in Bangkok.”

Rosie Perez is reflecting on her terrifying experience of contracting the novel coronavirus last December. In an interview with Uproxx published Monday, the 56-year-old actress revealed that she was in the middle of filming HBO Max's The Flight Attendantwhen production had to shut down after she was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Rosie Perez reveals what it was like contracting COVID-19 during a new interview with Uproxx.