Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterMMA star Cat Zingano has sued Halle Berry, alleging that she passed up a key UFC fight in order to appear in Berry’s film about mixed martial arts — only to be dropped from both UFC and the film.Berry’s film, “Bruised,” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and is due out on Netflix in November.
Berry makes her directorial debut and stars as an MMA fighter who is also a single mother.In the suit, Zingano states that Berry asked her to appear in the film during a meeting in July 2019.
The suit states that Berry noted the parallels between the script and Zingano’s own life story. A week later, Zingano got an offer for a UFC fight in October 2019, which would have put her in contention.
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