Gal Gadot Says She Finished Her New Movie ‘on Crutches’ After Picking Up Running: ‘I Needed a Break’

The actress plays a high-powered London defense attorney whose life is turned upside down during a morning jog in ‘The Runner’

Gal Gadot didn’t exactly leave her latest film, The Runner, unscathed.

The 41-year-old actress reveals to PEOPLE that she sustained an injury while filming the Prime Video drama, in which she plays a high-powered London defense attorney whose life is turned upside down when she learns her son has been taken while she was on a morning jog.

“I finished the film on crutches,” Gadot shares. “There was only so much [I could do]. At one point I broke my feet and that was it. And afterwards I needed to recover and all of that.” 

She continues, adding, “And of course, we picked up whatever we couldn’t finish because I had broken feet, but I need to get back at it. I feel like we exhausted the idea of running for me after running for so many months like this.” 

The trailer for the film shows just how much work Gadot put in. In several scenes she ran across different neighborhoods, on roads, railway tracks, down building tracks and in various locations while following the cryptic commands of a mysterious caller in order to save her abducted son.

To prepare for the role, Gadot trained with an Olympic trainer, who taught her how to “run the right way,” to “stop thinking about it” and to learn the “skill as a second nature.”

“It’s one of those things that you prep and prep and prep, but you never know how we’re going to do that,” she explains. “Neither of us have ever filmed anything like this. As much as I did many action films in my career, I’ve never done one where I’m running every day, the entire day…”

“So it took a lot of trial and error and adjusting, and we did it. And I’m so excited to finally share this film with everybody,” she adds.

The Wonder Woman star says that after she injured herself on the film, she “needed a break.” Gadot recalls, “The last day I was ready to finish. I mean, crutches are a nice accessory, but not for me.”

Thankfully, Gadot has since healed and says she’s “back” to normal — and even “ready to go back at it” after several months of rest.

The action-thriller movie is directed by Kevin Macdonald and also stars Damian Lewis, Rory Wilmot, Afred Enoch, Phoenix Di Sabastiani and others.

The Runner premieres globally on Prime Video on Wednesday, Sept. 2.

Via: People