It seems odd to say that an Oscar winner and movie superhero should have been a contender, but there’s long been a sense that Hollywood never quite knew how to make the best of her. She was directed by the Wachowskis, Suzanne Bier and Spike Lee.
She starred alongside Robert Downey jnr, Benicio del Toro and Warren Beatty. She proved more than capable of going toe to toe with James Bond (Die Another Day). She was Storm in the multibillion-dollar X-Men franchise. At the turn of the millennium, she seemed poised to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. I don’t often find great parts that I really, really love to sink my teeth into.”īerry (55) has certainly learned to roll with the punches.
I’ve been continuing to try to make ways for myself. But unfortunately for me, that was not my reality. Like: now I’m going to get all the great parts. “I was sure the script truck would just back itself up to my front door. “I was very disheartened after winning that gorgeous guy,” says Berry, who looks as young as she did on the night she walked onto the Oscar podium. It’s for the women that stand beside me – Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett – and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”īut more than two decades later, powered along by Me Too, questions about representation and the jailing of Harvey Weinstein, that door is only now coming unlatched.īerry winning Best Actress for Monster’s Ball in 2002 “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. “This moment is so much bigger than me,” she said, through tears, as she received the statuette for her role in Monster’s Ball. When Halle Berry won the 2002 Oscar for best actress – the first time in the Academy’s 74-year history that it had been awarded to a black woman – there was no doubting what the win meant.
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