Halle Berry reveals she broke several ribs filming new movie, 'Bruised'

Halle Berry recently revealed just how far she was willing to go to ensure her directorial debut, "Bruised," crossed the finish line.

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.'"

Eric Brown, who worked as the stunt coordinator for "Bruised," noted how impressed he was by Berry's determination.

"[It was] kind of a crazy injury. But that was just her intensity," Brown told Entertainment Weekly. "Halle's a special case. I've worked with tons of actors, and almost none of them have that kind of work ethic."

"Bruised," a drama in which Berry plays a disgraced MMA fighter on a path to redemption, premieres Nov. 24 on Netflix.