Halle Berry says she doesn’t have the “luxury” as a Black woman “to just sit and field Oscar buzz movies”

Halle Berry says she doesn’t have the “luxury” as a Black woman “to just sit and field Oscar buzz movies”

Halle Berry has said that being a Black woman means she doesn’t have the “luxury” of being able to “just sit and field Oscar buzz movies”.

Despite her success as an actress, Berry has admitted that are options sometimes “are so limited” as a Black woman in Hollywood.

“As a Black woman, I have never had the luxury of just doing Oscar-worthy performances and movies. I don’t even know what that is. My options at times are so limited, and that’s the reality of it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “So I don’t have the luxury to just sit and field Oscar buzz movies. That wasn’t my reality, and it’s still not my reality.”

The interviewer praised Berry for playing a variety of roles throughout her career, jettisoning the usual path Oscar winners take by sticking to a similar role.

“I won that Oscar 23 years ago now, and it was about working,” she said. “It was about loving the craft. It was about growing and taking risks and chances. So I don’t have the luxury to just sit and field Oscar buzz movies. That wasn’t my reality, and it’s still not my reality.

Berry’s latest project is Never Let Go, a horror-thriller about a single mother and her two twin sons who can’t leave their rural Tennessee cabin without being tethered by a limited amount of rope.

“I was wildly intrigued by it,” Berry said of her connection to the project. “When I read it, it was kind of like the first time I read A Quiet Place. I actually read that before they made it, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is crazy. I want to see this movie.’ So that’s how I felt when I read Never Let Go.

“I thought, “I want to see what life would be like for a mother who’s raising two kids and never leaving this house in a forest.” It just captured my imagination. I read it with question after question after question, and after I got done reading, I thought, “I have to do this. I have to find a way to bring this to the screen.”

In other news, last month Berry said that Pierce Brosnan “restored my faith in men” while on the set of their 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.

Speaking to Wired, Berry has shared her resoundingly positive memories of filming with Brosnan. “He will always be my Bond, always,” she said. “I’m a Pierce Brosnan fan. He restored my faith in men on that movie. There couldn’t be a human who is more of a gentleman than Pierce Brosnan.”

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