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Is it harder for you to trust people when you meet them for the first time? This film is filled with people having secrets. I think I’m always just willing to expose myself and walk through the fire and see how I come out on the other end. So I don’t know what that means for me because I’m always scared to death. I’m daring to walk in unchartered waters and I know there’s going to be some growth at the end of the road. When I’m scared to death, that means that I’m doing something new. Usually when I know I am filled with fear, then I know that I’m going in the right direction. HB: I don’t know because I am filled with fear when I’m doing it. You have got to do that over.' So that was always my sort of balance that I tried to walk. I remember James Foley would sometimes say 'cut!' and I'd say 'what, wasn't that good?' and he would say 'Ro does not have an Academy award. When I wanted the audience to know that I was acting, like with Catherine Pogue, I had to act well enough so that Bruce Willis' charact er would buy it, but not so well that the audience forgot that she was really Ro acting as Catherine. The challenge for me was to act as these other people and have the other characters in the movie believe what she was saying, but still not act so well that the audience saw through it. Which is why I was scared of this role, because I saw all of the nuances and all of the layers and I knew that my character was never really herself, ever - maybe a few moments in the movie do you get to see the real character that's not pretending to be somebody else.
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What's the process for keeping all of that straight? This is a movie where you're acting and the character you play is sometimes acting. My manager said, I'm so used to fighting for parts, my manager said 'no, no, no, they want you for this one.' That didn't really dawn on me at first. Somebody is gonna have an awesome time.' Then the realization sort of sunk in. HB: No, the funny thing was, when I first read it, I thought 'this is gonna be great for somebody. Sometimes maybe you have to go back again to say 'wait, wait, does that all add up? Did I see what I thought I saw?' I had to go back and read the script again and say 'wait a minute,' because the script left out a lot of detail because it would have given it away long before if the detail was in there, so I had to go back and say 'now wait a minute, how exactly does this happen?' I loved it and I was challenged by this character.ĭid you immediately see yourself in the part? HB: I thought 'wow.' I love this genre, I love a good psychological thriller that takes you on a journey, that bends your mind and forces you to think and look for clues and figure it out, and I love movies with great endings that somehow surprise you and somehow make it worth the journey. What did you think of the screenplay for this film when you got it? I reserve the right to just keep making choices that are new for me, and trying different things, taking risks and chances, trying different genres, I just don't want to do lofty, Oscar-winning type roles. I wouldn't have worked for five years now. So, I worked really hard to not just wait myself out of my career by waiting for another Academy-award winning role. I had to work really hard in not allowing that pressure to stifle my creativity and stifle my desire to be an individual and do my career my way. Halle Berry: It has made it harder, but it's only made it harder because of the pressure that comes along with that award. Since winning the Oscar and everything after that, has that made your career easier? In speaking with, Berry talks working with neighbor Bruce Willis, the fear of being bald for her next film, and her other projects, including one with Alicia Keys. In their current film, “Perfect Stranger”, Berry plays a reporter who goes undercover in a advertising firm run by a multi-millionaire Harrison Hill (Willis), to solve the murder of one of her childhood friends. Berry’s role was small, but it just shows you the growth of an actress with hard work.
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Time has certainly change over the years when you think back to 1991 when Halle was starting out in the business and one of the earliest films she did was “The Last Boy Scout” which starred Willis and Damon Wayans. Co-starring in the film with her is Bruce Willis. Well, Halle’s next film happens to be a thriller and it’s her film. Then again, it’s harder period for female actors get leading roles in major films if it’s not an independent film, or some horror or thriller. Having won the Oscar in 2002, one can say that Halle Berry hasn’t been given a lot of roles or films afforded to other Oscar winners. PERFECT STRANGER: An Interview with Halle Berry