Actress Halle Berry says she hopes other black women win the Oscars in the future as she appears to have held the record in the Best Actress category for a long time.
She is known as the first Black actress to win an Oscar in the Best Actress category at the Academy Awards for her role in the film Monster’s Ball in 2002.
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“I hope this year someone stands next to me…This year, I hope it happens because I’m tired of occupying that space alone,” “The 58-year-old said on the What Now? Podcast.
Halley Berry also reflected on the Oscar recognition from the past, indicating that she felt she was destined to win it at the time.
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“I knew it was bigger than me,” she said of her win. “I was, in that moment, [destined] to be a beacon of possibility. And I do think it served that purpose,” she said.
She, however, noted that she had to work to earn the award. That notwithstanding, she believed her own values impacted her success.
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In September last year, fans responded when the actress encouraged them to wear their “most distressed” wigs to theaters for the premiere of her horror thriller Never Let Go.
The award-winning actress reportedly went viral when she turned up at the event in her own “distressed wig” in New York City, where the movie screening took place.
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Never Let Go tells Berry’s story as she tries to protect her fraternal twin sons from a frightening force that appears to have “consumed their world.”
To survive the phenomenon, she stayed connected with her children at all times, urging each other to never let go and fall victim to the darkness in the woods.
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However, the ties between mother and children were cut when one of the boys asked if the evil was “even real.” It was directed by filmmaker, Alexandre Aja, and featured a host of stars who also turned up at the premiere.
Prior to this, Halle Berry spoke about her age, indicating that she was not bothered even if her beauty faded because there was more she had to offer than her physical appearance.
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“I’ve always known that I’ve been more than this face and more than this body…So when that starts to go, maybe for the first time in my life, people will focus on the other aspects of me that I think are way more interesting,” the mother of two stated in an interview with Marie Claire publication.
