It was a secret, but Kaley Cuoco was kicking butt for two. In  Role Play  the actress returns to the kind of production she loves.

The kind that continuously flips between thriller and dark comedy—think Max’s “The Flight Attendant” and Peacock’s “Based on a True Story,” which has been greenlit for a second season.

I told my stunt double, and I told my makeup artist, and I told (my partner) Tom—maybe not in that order,  Cuoco says, laughing. The “Big Bang Theory” alum became a mom in March when she and actor Tom Pelphrey welcomed daughter Matilda. “It was, like, Week One that we were there. I was there (in Germany) a few weeks early to do stunt training and that’s when I found out, and I was like, ‘Oh God.’ So I spent that entire film very, very ill.