Halle Berry
Dennis Truscello/Getty ImagesHalle Berry Twenty years on, she still believes in her iconic Razzie Awards speech.
Since 1981, the Golden Raspberry Awards have served as an anti-awards show honoring cinema’s biggest flops, blunders and missteps. In 2004, Berry, 57, made the unusual decision to accept the Worst Actress award in person after starring in the commercially flop “Star Wars: Episode I.” Catwoman.
“I wrote [my speech] “I thought a lot about how to make it fun and let people know that I don’t take myself too seriously,” she said. Entertainment Weekly As part of the 20th anniversary oral history Catwoman“No matter how horrible things people say, they can’t take away my Oscar! If they say I won this, I’ll take this. Embrace the nice things people say and also embrace when they don’t say nice things.”
Berry arrived at the ceremony to accept her 2001 Academy Award for Best Actress. Monster Ball She then slammed Warner Bros. for ruining her post-Oscar fame.
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“No, I don’t need it back because it has my name on it,” Berry said of the Oscar, before blaming the movie studio. “You don’t get a Razzie without the help of a lot of people, so please forgive me…Thank you Warner Bros. for putting me in this awful movie. It was exactly what I needed for my career. I was at the top of my game and… Catwoman It brought me to rock bottom. I love it!”
She said in an interview East-WestShe said Warner Bros. knew she intended to give a speech at the Razzie Awards.
“The studio knew what I was going to do. I said I wanted to make fun of this movie and make fun of it,” she said. “I don’t think the movie is terrible, but I was at the Razzies so I had to do it like they did. I’m going to do it because they do it! I was going to be one of them.
Twenty years on, Berry believes the film’s reputation was undeserved, saying she bears no hard feelings toward the film’s production team and enjoys the finished product.
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“I knew how hard everyone worked, not just me, and we didn’t set out to make something that would be panned by critics,” Berry said. “I was surprised we got through it. My Catwoman“There were no negative feelings.”
Berry also said that no amount of negative reviews will knock her career off track.
“I’ve been fighting as a black woman my whole life, so it’s not like it stopped me in my tracks. The little bit of bad press about the movie? I didn’t like it, but it hasn’t stopped my world or stopped me from doing the things I love,” she said.
