You might think it would be particularly felicitous for an actor to deliver lines that hit so close to home, but Joy said it was “almost the opposite of what you would expect.”Īccording to Time magazine, the TV code back then prohibited even use of the word “pregnant,” but Arnaz convinced CBS to incorporate Ball’s pregnancy into the plot.

“Although I look back and think, ‘What was I worried about?’ I look so skinny compared to now,” added Joy, 43, who is due with her first child at the end of December. “I was already getting a bit of a pot belly, which I’d been hiding on set, which is not so easy in these costumes,” she said, referring to the early 1900s wardrobe. Nobody on set knew that Joy was also expecting - other than the head of the wardrobe department and the showrunner - until Julia spilled the beans. Viewers learned the Murdochs’ baby news on Monday night, when the long-running CBC drama aired its Christmas episode. “I could stop sucking in my tummy,” said Joy who, in a case of art imitating life - or is that the other way around? - was about three months pregnant in August when shooting the scene in which Julia reveals her condition. Julia Ogden told her husband, Detective William Murdoch, that she was pregnant, Hélène Joy, the actor who plays her, was able to unload a secret of her own.

Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers for “Murdoch Mysteries.”

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