Halle Berry has stated it’s “heartbreaking” {that a} Black girl hasn’t gained a Greatest Actress Oscar since she did in 2002.
Almost 20 years after profitable the award for her function in Monster’s Ball, the place she starred as alongside Billy Bob Thornton and the late Heath Ledger, the actor opened up concerning the Academy not awarding the title to a different Black girl since.
“The heartbreak I’ve is as a result of I actually thought that night time meant that very quickly after that, different ladies of color, Black ladies, would stand beside me,” she advised The Mirror.
“Now it’s been 20 years and nobody has, and so each time Oscar time comes round, I get very reflective and I feel, ‘Nicely perhaps this yr, perhaps this yr. It has develop into heartbreaking that nobody else has stood there.”
Berry additionally stated she was conscious how her win impacted Black ladies. “That second mattered as a result of so many individuals have come as much as me through the years and advised me how that second shifted their desirous about what they may obtain, what they aspire to do, or what they believed they may do – that they have been touched by that second,” she stated. “That’s the worth that I do know is actual.”
Halle Berry. CREDIT: Getty Pictures
Since 2002, as The Mirror experiences, 12 Black actors have been nominated for the Greatest Actress award, however none of them have gained.
Final yr, Halle Berry issued an apology for considering a role as a transgender man in an upcoming film.
The actress defined on Instagram Reside that she was in discussions for the function. “I’m pondering of [playing] a personality the place the lady is a trans character, so she’s a girl that transitioned into a person,” she stated.
“I need to expertise that world, perceive that world. I need to deep dive in that in the best way I did Bruised,” she added, referring to her current directorial debut.
In the meantime, Berry has admitted she knew Catwoman “wasn’t quite right” when she was making the infamous superhero film.
