Netflix reportedly paid Berry $20 million for worldwide distribution rights of the film. Still, “I couldn’t get it out of my mind, so I thought, is it possible that this could be reimagined for someone like me? Because I think I have a take on it that could actually work - making it about a middle-aged black woman, someone fighting for a last chance rather than another chance,” she said. “They gave me the script, and I loved the story, but it was written for a twentysomething Irish Catholic white woman,” Berry, who turns 55 this week, said. Berry appeared in a string of flops after the win, including 2004’s “Catwoman,” which earned her four Razzie Awards.īerry currently stars in her directorial debut, “Bruised,” an indie film about a disgraced MMA fighter’s return to the ring, a role Blake Lively turned down. I still had to try to fight to make a way out of no way,” she said in an interview for the magazine’s September cover.īerry made history nearly 20 years ago when she became the first black woman to win for Best Lead Actress at the Academy Awards. “When you have a historic win like that, you think, ‘Oh, this is going to fundamentally change.’ It did fundamentally change me, but it did not change my place in the business overnight.
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In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Berry reveals “it was surprising” that more movie roles did not immediately pour in after her historic Oscar win in 2002 for her role in Lee Daniels’ “Monster’s Ball.” Not even Halle Berry could escape the Oscar curse. And, next year, Zoë Kravitz will don the signature skin-tight catsuit in Robert Pattinson-starring “The Batman.Halle Berry once told director Bryan Singer to ‘kiss my black ass’ Undeterred, she vowed to the audience to never receive another.įollowing Berry’s turn, fellow Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway would take on the “slinky” character in 2012 for “The Dark Knight Rises,” with Christian Bale as the titular Caped Crusader. Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collectionīerry called the much-maligned “Catwoman” a “piece of s–t, god awful movie” when she humbly accepted - live and in-person - her Razzie for Worst Actress at the 2004 awards. “I would make the stakes a lot higher, and I think make it more inclusive of both men and women.” Halle Berry apparently thinks “Catwoman” could have one more life left in her. “I would have ‘Catwoman’ saving the world like most male superheroes do, and not just saving women from their faces cracking off,” the star of the upcoming doomsday thriller “Moonfall” continued. Have a redo on that, now knowing what I know,” she said, referring to her new gig as director. “I wish I could go back and reimagine ‘Catwoman’ and redo that. “If I can get ahold of that now, knowing what I know, having had this experience, and reimagine that world the way I reimagined this story … ‘Bruised’ was written for a white, Irish Catholic, 25-year-old girl, and I got to reimagine it,” she explained.
“I would love to direct ‘Catwoman,'” Berry, who directed the upcoming Netflix film “Bruised,” told Hamilton in the remote interview. Halle Berry undergoes dramatic make-under in new ‘Bruised’ trailer And despite its outsized $100 million budget - about as big as they came two decades ago - the film was considered a box office bomb after reaping only about $80 million in ticket sales, as AV Club reported.Īsked if she could return to any of her previous projects to direct herself, she chose “Catwoman,” then directed my French filmmaker and special effects guru Jean-Christophe “Pitof” Comar.
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In a recent interview with entertainment journalist Jake Hamilton on his YouTube series “Jake’s Takes,” the 55-year-old actress and filmmaker reminisced about her debatable portrayal as the DC Comics’ feline-esque anti-hero. The first woman of color to win an Oscar for Best Actress (for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball”) is still thinking about her Razzie-winning role as “Catwoman” in that 2004 superhero flick. Sounds like Halle Berry is feeling feisty again.
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