Although her The Bride! character could easily just sew another appendage on, Jessie Buckley took a little longer to heal from a behind-the-scenes injury.
The 2x Oscar nominee revealed she sustained a broken bone while making the Maggie Gyllenhaal-helmed take on The Bride of Frankenstein, which is set in 1930s Chicago and stars Christian Bale as her monstrous romantic lead.
“The hardest scene, just because I actually broke my toe, was like the last week of shooting, and I was so tired,” she explained to Entertainment Weekly. “[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.”
Buckley added, “It was just so swollen, but that’s also fun. And I’m meant to have one leg shorter than the other anyway, so it probably helped.”
The Bride! sees a lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travel to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
Also starring Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal and Penélope Cruz, The Bride! is directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal from her own script and produced alongside Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren. Carla Raij, David Webb and Courtney Kivowitz served as exec producers on the flick, slated for release in theaters and IMAX in North America on March 6, 2026.
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