“It was like the last week of shooting, and I was so tired,” Buckley tells EW.

Jessie Buckley reveals she broke a bone filming pivotal The Bride! scene: ‘So swollen’ (exclusive)

"It was like the last week of shooting, and I was so tired," Buckley tells EW.

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Jessie Buckley in 'The Bride!'. Credit:

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Coming back from the dead can be hazardous to your health.

*The Bride! *star Jessie Buckley put her entire body on the line to bring to life writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold new take on the Bride of Frankenstein. She even broke a bone while filming a pivotal scene, yet she kept going through the pain.

"The hardest scene, just because I actually broke my toe, was like the last week of shooting, and I was so tired," Buckley tells **. "[In the scene] there was this gun firing, and I just overextended my toe by falling backwards too many times. And I had to come in and do the scene the next day, and my toe was the size of a tree."

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in 'The Bride!'.

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Buckley laughs as she remembers how gruesome the injury looked, and how it actually helped her portray her undead character in a surprisingly appropriate way.

"It was just so swollen, but that's also fun," she adds. "And I'm meant to have one leg shorter than the other anyway, so it probably helped."

Buckley plays the titular monster opposite Christian Bale in Gyllenhaal's highly anticipated second film (following her 2021 directorial debut, *The Lost Daughter*).* *Inspired by James Whale's 1935 horror *The Bride of Frankenstein — *or, more specifically, a tattoo that Gyllenhaal once saw on a stranger's arm of Elsa Lanchester's iconic version of the character, streaked beehive hairdo and all — the punk-rock romance is a daring twist on the classic tale of Frankenstein's monster (Bale) seeking a companion.

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Here, "Frank" seeks out mad scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to dig up and reanimate a woman's corpse to create something more significant than the silent, failed experiment that only appears in roughly three minutes at the end of the original movie. As this new Bride comes to life, her passion, curiosity, and disinhibition captivate Frank, and the two self-proclaimed monsters fall in love.

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But they also unintentionally embark on a crime spree that would shock even Bonnie and Clyde, and ignite a cultural revolution fighting injustices against women everywhere.

"They think they know it, but they don't know it," warns Bale, who reunites with Gyllenhaal nearly 20 years after starring together in *The Dark Knight*. "It's a great, kick-ass, bold, original film. This is real cinema."

*The Bride!* hits theaters March 6. Read more on the movie in EW's cover story here.**

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