Rose Byrne’s Back ‘Seized Up’ While Filming “The Good Daughter,” Couldn’t Walk for a Week

Byrne plays Samantha Quinn in Peacock’s new adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s novel

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• Rose Byrne developed a lingering back issue after adopting her character’s limp in The Good Daughter
• She told USA Today that she couldn’t walk for a week after her back “seized up”
• Byrne and Meghann Fahy play sisters confronting trauma after violence resurfaces in their Georgia hometown in the new Peacock show, streaming now

Rose Byrne shared that she suffered a back injury while filming The Good Daughter.

“I have this limp in the show, and I still have a bad back from doing this limp,” Byrne, 47, told USA Today in an interview published on Thursday, Nov. 12. “I worked with a trainer, and we came up with the physicality, which was terrific. But I then, after the show, I couldn’t walk for nearly a week because my back went out. And I still have a twitch.”

“It’s extraordinary, and it was wild,” the Oscar nominee added. “You’re just doing this performance every day for eight weeks or whatever it is. It was truly unexpected. I did not think that it would live on. But yeah… I threw my back out, and it still sometimes seizes up.”

Byrne and Meghann Fahy star as sisters Samantha “Sam” Quinn and Charlotte “Charlie” Quinn in The Good Daughter, based on the 2017 novel by Karin Slaughter. They are the daughters of a criminal defense attorney whose lives were irrevocably altered after a violent tragedy that leaves their mother dead in their small town of Pikeville, Ga. When shocking violence occurs in the small community again more than 20 years later, both sisters are forced to confront their pasts.

“The show is really heavy but it’s so hopeful,” Fahy, 36, said of the show in an exclusive featurette shared with PEOPLE. “Ultimately I think [what] we’re hoping to take away is your trauma really doesn’t define you if you don’t let it.”

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Byrne, who earned her first Oscar nomination with 2025’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and earned two Emmy nominations for Damages, previously told PEOPLE that the story examines how people handle the same traumas differently.

“She survived a tragedy as a young woman and fought her way back,” Byrne said. “It took decades for her to overcome her anger and all those things she was really putting onto her sister.”

The Good Daughter is now streaming on Peacock.