Halle Berry: ‘Bruised’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Oscar-winning actress and first time director Halle Berry. Berry’s directorial debut is “Bruised” on Netflix, which is about a disgraced MMA fighter who is battling her own personal demons. Berry also plays the lead in the film. She won the Oscar for her leading role in “Monster’s Ball” in 2001. Berry tells The Treatment that she is often drawn to characters who are broken down and searching. She says she actually shot one of her most challenging scenes on the first day of filming. And she says she wanted the look of the film to reflect the harsh, worn down world of the characters.

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0:46.4	Welcome to the Treatment, the Home Edition.
0:47.4	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:53.2	And my guest, Halliberry, in her 30 years as an actor, has often played characters who show us their determination, be it in
0:55.4	something like strictly business or losing Isaiah or even like a really iconic movie such as
1:01.0	Boomerang. This time she has to find her way back to her will in her directorial debut,
1:06.1	and she's starring in the film Bruce. First of all, Hallie, thanks so much for being here.
1:09.9	Oh, thanks for having, Alice. You've so often played characters who are really determined,
1:14.2	and I wondered if that made doing Bruce interesting for you because there's a character who really
1:18.0	has to find her determination, doesn't she? She does. But I always love those characters that are
1:23.7	in some ways in search of something or struggling struggling who are multi-layered, complicated,
1:28.2	fractured in some way, broken, fighting their way towards something, finding something.
1:32.9	So this character fit in that sweet spot for me.
1:36.5	Even the way it's shot, Cepatone, it's almost like you're telling us through the way the
1:40.2	film looks. This is kind of an age-old story, but with a woman and sent her instead of a man.
1:48.2	Yeah, that was sort of the goal. You know, I love this genre, which is one of the reasons I think I was so attracted to this story. I love a good fight movie. I love a good underdog, come back,
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