Halle Berry Refused to Tell Anyone She Was Injured on ‘Bruised’

Halle Berry sustained many injuries while doing her passion project Bruised . But she made it a point not to tell anyone how bad her injuries were. Halle Berry feared exposing her injuries would’ve shut ‘Bruised’ down Bruised was a very important project for Berry.

The 2021 sports drama was initially meant for Blake Lively to star in several years ago. But when Berry got a hold of the project, the piece resonated with her in such a way that she insisted to be the film’s star. Additionally, Berry also opted to direct the project when she couldn’t find another filmmaker who was right for the part.

“I didn’t know this is what I wanted to do,” she said in an interview with Goldderby. “I didn’t really set out to direct this. I wanted to be the actor to play this amazing character that I love so much within a sport that I loved so much.

I only ended up directing it because I couldn’t really find someone that shared the vision that I had because I had to reimagine the story. It wasn’t written for someone like me. It was written for a very young, white, Irish-Catholic girl.

So I had to reimagine it. I ended up directing it because I couldn’t find anyone that saw it the way I saw it.” Berry would end up playing Jackie Justice, who was a retired MMA fighter looking to make a comeback.

This required Berry to undergo an intense training regimen to move and look believable as a fighter. Due to the physicality of the role, however, Berry experienced many injurie.