Oscar winner Halle Berry makes her directorial debut in upcoming Netflix film ‘Bruised,’ which follows a former MMA fighter struggling to regain custody of her son and restart her athletic career.
Premieres November 24 on Netflix.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the Oscar winner said that she broke two ribs on the first day of filming. She clarified that they weren’t the same ribs she broke when filming 2019’s “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.”
“When you break something, it calcifies and it’s stronger. You don’t usually break the same bones twice,” Berry said, explaining that she chose to work through the pain because, during “John Wick,” her injury caused production to come to a standstill.
“I told the director about it, they told the insurance. We had to shut down for months and it was a big ordeal,” the 54-year-old actress recalled. “On this, because it was an independent movie, we didn’t have a big budget. The director in me said, ‘I didn’t come this far and work this hard to go home.'”
Berry posted a heartfelt and encouraging message on her Instagram —
Halle Maria Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama film Monster’s Ball (2001), becoming the first and only woman of color to have won the award. She took on high-profile roles for much of the 2000s, such as Storm in X-Men (2000) and its sequels X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006); Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002); and in the thriller Gothika (2003). In the 2010s, she featured in the science-fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012), the crime thriller The Call (2013) and the action films X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
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