Ben Whishaw learned how to perform a caesarean for an upcoming role.
Ben Whishaw learned to perform a C-Section for an upcoming role
The 41-year-old actor - who is best known as gadgets expert Q in the James Bond film franchise – swapped the gadgets for a scalpel for his new upcoming role as junior doctor Adam Kay in BBC One’s medical drama ‘This Is Going to Hurt’, and he was surprised how "basic" a C-section was to carry out.
He is quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "We’ve learned how to do caesareans. I had no idea it was as basic as it is. You take a scalpel, slice through flesh, put your hands in, pull the muscles apart and grab the baby.
"Things like that are extraordinary."
Ben admitted one of his favourite scenes from the show featured a mum trying to eat her placenta.
He added: "She’s read it’s good for her and the baby and, well, it gets messy.
"I think it’s a time when we’ve all been more aware than normal of just how much we owe to the people who work for the NHS."
Adam was over the moon when Ben was cast to play him.
He said: “To have the finest actor of his generation playing me? In a career-defining performance? Yeah, it’s OK, I guess.”
Adam recently admitted he was desperate for a bizarre story about a Kinder Egg - from his book 'This Is Going to Hurt' - to make it into the TV series of the same name.
A woman had planned to propose to her boyfriend by hiding a ring inside the chocolate egg and then inserting it into her private parts for her boyfriend to find - but things went terribly wrong and she ended up in A&E.
He previously said: “I think that is my favourite story in the book. I was desperate that the Kinder Egg made it into the show.
“The BBC promised me one thing right at the start, which was that they wouldn’t say, 'You can’t do that.' "
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