Directing Bruised was Halle Berry’s toughest challenge

Oscar-winning star Halle Berry, who has gone behind the camera for the first time with Bruised, has revealed that directing the upcoming film was her toughest challenge.

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Berry also plays a disgraced MMA fighter who decides to return for an unsanctioned bout in the movie.

Talking about it at a Hollywood screening, Berry said, “I don’t know how I did it. I was on some adrenaline, I was on a high. I had to get this out of my body and so I had to do it, I just had to keep going day after day and I was energised by it, I was ignited by and I was refusing to be told ‘no’.”

She had been despairing that no filmmaker could match her vision for the project until a producer suggested that she should take the bold step of directing the film herself.

“All of the filmmakers that I spoke to, they didn’t see the story that I saw in my head, they couldn’t quite understand all the elements of this,” she said.

The actress added, “I finally went home one night and I was pretty distraught because I was like, ‘Oh god, I can’t seem to get a filmmaker to make this story.’ And then my dear friend, (producer) Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas said to me, ‘Why don’t you direct?’ And I said, ‘Me? I’ve never directed a movie before, this is too big of a role to play. I can’t do that.’ She said, ‘You absolutely can, you love it like I’ve never seen anybody love anything.’”

—IANS