Halle Berry Reveals Painful Injuries & Intense Training For Roles Throughout The Years: ‘I’ve Been Knocked Out 3 Times’

August 13, 2024 by Aaron Keenan in Film with 0 Comments

Halle Berry Reveals Painful Injuries & Intense Training For Roles Throughout The Years: ‘I’ve Been Knocked Out 3 Times’

Halle Berry’s action-packed career has come with a hefty price.

In a recent Instagram video promoting her upcoming Netflix film The Union, Halle Berry opened up about the extensive action training and numerous injuries she has endured throughout her career.

Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg (Netflix)

Speaking with co-star Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry detailed her journey in learning various combat skills for her roles:

“I’ve learned jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, kickboxing, Taekwondo… I learned how to shoot. I learned capoeira for Catwoman.”

The 57-year-old actress also shared a list of the injuries she’s sustained while performing these high-risk roles:

“I’ve been knocked out three times… Got an arm broken. Broke ribs twice. Two ribs one time, three ribs another time. Broke a tailbone. Broke two toes and a finger.”

Berry then pointed to her middle finger and laughed as she added,

“This finger.”

Halle Berry (Netflix)

In discussing some of her more intense on-screen experiences, Berry described her longest underwater hold for the film Dark Tide:

“I played a free diver. I had to hold my breath for almost two and a half minutes… and that felt like an eternity. It felt like death.”

She also reflected on her time on wires while playing Storm in the X-Men series, noting,

“My Storm X-Men days, long time ‘cause Storm was always in the sky on a wire. A long time.”

All the training and injuries may have been worth it, as moviegoers now have iconic roles to remember, such as Catwoman.

Catwoman (Warner Bros.)

Berry recently celebrated the film’s 20th anniversary with a bold Instagram post in July, where she posed nude in a cat mask while strategically holding two cats on her chest.