The actress, who got the statuette for 'Monster Ball', believes that she made history but that the award did not help her at all to improve or have a better career in Hollywood.
Halle Berry continues to review her film career and confess different secrets to Variety, a medium that has produced an interesting interview with the artist, emphasizing the milestones and failures of a very important actress to understand current Hollywood.
An Oscar that according to Berry has been useless
"It's one of my biggest disappointments. The next morning I thought I had been chosen to blaze a trail. That no one came after... I wonder if that was really an important moment or just an important moment for me," Berry confesses, who 19 years ago won the Oscar for best leading actress for Monster's Ball (2001), the renowned film by Marc Forster with which she shared the screen with Billy Bob Thornton.
At the same time, she also takes the opportunity to evaluate the awards granted and not granted in recent years in the category in which she won. "I think there have been women who really could and should have won it, but it has not been like that. I would not know how to tell you the answer," she clarified.
The actress also confesses that she believed that after working on X-Men -a saga of which she has bittersweet memories because of Bryan Singer-, films like Operation Swordfish and Die Another Day (2002) and rising as the first African-American woman to win the Oscar as best leading actress, her career was going to go further. It was not so.
"I thought all these great roles were going to start coming to me after the Oscars, that great directors would start knocking on my door. But it didn't. In fact, it got even more difficult. It's what they call the Oscars curse." Add. Berry got involved in making a spin-off of Jynx, her character in the aforementioned James Bond film, but MGM backed out at the last moment, seeing that the budget was too high and the idea too risky.
"It was a huge disappointment. It was a concept that was way ahead of its time. No one was willing to put that much money into a black woman as an action star. And that led to another problem: Since I couldn't make the Jinx movie, I thought that Catwoman was a great opportunity to have a black woman as a superhero.
Why not try it?" says the interpreter, who came face to face with reality. Pitof's film was one of the great flops in recent film history. Released in 2004, with a budget of more than 100 million dollars, it barely collected 82 at the international box office and was met with an audience that mocked it, the plot, and the concept of the film. It remains to this day one of the lowest-rated comic book movies in history.
