Riley Keough has shared a memory from her brief cameo appearance in 2018 indie comedy Under The Silver Lake, in which she almost poisoned her co-star, Andrew Garfield.
‘I do have a memory on the set… it was actually very stressful,’ she recalled. ‘I was in the make-up trailer and I was eating, like, a granola bar or something, and I was about to shoot a scene where I have to kiss Andrew.’
While eating her snack, Keough said that the make-up artist suddenly asked if the car contained peanuts, to which Riley replied: ‘I don’t know.’
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After this, the make=up artist ‘ran away’ in search of the film’s producer, leaving Keough very confused.
'The producer came in and was like, "Riley, Andrew’s very allergic to peanuts and we have to shut the set down,"' the actor said, recalling the moment she learned that she put Garfield's life in danger, due to his severe nut allergy.
She continued, 'I was just kind of like, "Oh f***, that’s crazy." But also thank God that this woman caught it, because I had no idea.'
Garfield opened up about his allergy in an interview from 2011, where he shared that, while shooting Never Let Me Go, he went to dinner with Carey Mulligan and Kiera Knightley and promptly 'started having an allergic reaction to something in my food.'
'I had to spend the rest of that night in hospital. Alex Garland (screenwriter) took me. I'm used to it, because I've been in hospital a few times with this, but Carey was beside herself and Keira was terrified. It was just the most awkward moment ever, to go into anaphylactic shock at dinner,' he said.
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