Halle Berry is set to star in the new MMA-themed movie ‘Bruised' on Netflix.

The Oscar winner is turning herself into an MMA fighter physically and mentally in order to prepare for the role. Halle Berry found it extremely difficult.

She recently spoke to MMAFighting about the role and how she got prepared. Halle Berry wanted to do the MMA world justice.

“It is hands down the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my professional career,” Berry told MMAFighting. “I think it’s second only to child birth. I had to push myself further than I’d ever pushed myself. All those disciplines are at play so I had to learn bits of all of it.

“You can’t just all of a sudden look like you’re a real fighter. You really have to take the time and just put in the work and let your body sort of transform to look that way. I had to get some of these techniques in my body so that when shoot day came, I wasn’t still struggling with it. I had these things solidly in my body.”

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She wanted it to be real. Halle Berry the actress wanted to become Halle Berry the MMA fighter. She even picked a specific weight class for her size.

“My process was if I’m trying to portray a real fighter, I had to choose someone that would be in my weight class,” Berry explained. “If I were really fighting, I would be a flyweight. I would be a natural flyweight. So it did seem a little far-fetched when I realized I would be a flyweight, to ask the reigning champion to take time out of her busy schedule and training to come make a movie so I didn’t know if she would say yes.

“But I thought, this means so much to me, all she can do is say no but I have to try. To my surprise, when I reached out to her she said yes, let me read it and she very quickly got back to me and she said yes. That’s when I started pinching myself and realized holy sh*t Valentina said [yes] and she made all the difference.”

The MMA movie ‘Bruised' comes out on Netflix on November 24. It features current UFC flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko.