For Amy Poehler, taking a sick day wasn’t an option during her years of working on “Saturday Night Live,” “Parks and Recreation” and other film and TV projects.
Poehler, 54, told actress Olivia Colman that she “never missed one day of work” due to illness in a Sept. 16 episode of her podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.”
“People think that’s a weird statistic because they’re like, ‘Well, okay. Maybe not something to brag about.’ And I’m like, ‘Is it not?’” she said.
Poehler recalled filming a movie scene with actor Alec Baldwin while she had a temperature of 104 degrees. Despite feeling like she was “in a fever dream,” she wouldn’t have considered taking a sick day “in a million years,” she said.
For her part, Colman shared that she’s had pneumonia twice while filming, but never took a day off work — a choice she also acknowledged was “potentially stupid.”′
