Amy Adams Recalls Rushing to Aid Man Stabbed in Neck

Amy Adams says she once helped save a life, then enjoyed a "teary" reunion with the man a year later. On the SmartLess podcast, the 51-year-old actor recounted leaving a Santa Monica restaurant with her family when they came upon a man who'd been stabbed in the neck, with bystanders shouting that he was dying, per E! News. Among the "first people on the scene," per People, Adams said she told her husband to stay with their daughter while she and her father rushed over, using beach towels to slow the bleeding and coaching the man to stay calm and lie down to reduce blood loss.

"I'm sitting there somehow going, 'You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in.' I literally was just so focused," Adams told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. A year later, Adams said, the man approached her at a restaurant to thank her, emotional and accompanied by his son. Adams, who once considered becoming a doctor and says she's "really good in a crisis," noted she's only briefly played a medical professional on TV but still envisions a future in medicine—possibly as a hospital volunteer after she retires from acting.