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While some movies turn out to be career-boosting opportunities for Hollywood stars, others simply appear as a lesson that helps future roles. Apparently, Halle Berry’s 2001 thrillerSwordfish,alongside Hugh Jackman and John Travolta, was something of a lesson for the actress that helped her during her Oscar-winning movie.
Claiming how her performance inSwordfishassisted her to earn the Oscar-winning role inMonster’s Ball, Halle Berry opened up about her intimate scene with Angelina Jolie’s ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton. Recalling the much greater purpose of her thriller movie that prepped her forMonster’s Ball, Berry mentioned dating Thornton before engaging in s*x scenes.
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SwordfishPrepped Halle Berry ForMonster’s Ball
Before grabbing her Oscar-winning role inMonster’s Ball,Halle Berryappeared in the 2001 thrillerSwordfish, alongside Hugh Jackman and John Travolta. Although her heist movie didn’t perform well critically or commercially, it indeed helped her explore her s*xuality on the big screen.
Admitting to feeling nervous and awkward while undressing herself in front of the camera, Berry creditedSwordfishfor helping her achieve a newfound confidence. This even generated speculations surrounding the actress being offered extra money to go n*de for the films. However, Berry denied the rumors and insisted it wasn’t the case.
However, she later admitted, her newfound confidence afterSwordfishhelped her with her raunchy scenes inMonster’s Ball, with Angelina Jolie’s ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton. Discussing how her thriller movie prepped her for the Oscar-winning role, Halle Berry opened up about the process that went into the preparation for her intimate scene with Thornton.
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Halle Berry Once Dated Angelina Jolie’s Ex-husband
Discussing her raunchy scenes from her 2001 filmMonster’s Ball,withBilly Bob Thornton, Halle Berry asserted, that her s*x scenes with Jolie’s ex-husband were far from a walk in the park. However, while creditingSwordfishfor putting her in the mindset for her intimate scenes in her Oscar-winning role, the actress also praised Thornton for his help.
“In Swordfish, it was totally gratuitous ndity, and I knew it. But I probably wouldn’t have been able to do the sx scene in Monster’s Ball if I hadn’t shown my br*asts in Swordfish,”
Claiming how Billy Bob Thornton eased the situation before their intimate scene, by dating her for three weeks, Halle Berry almost hinted at breaking Jolie’s marriage. “We shot the sx scene on Day 19 of a 21-day shoot. I always say Billy Bob and I dated for three weeks and then we had sx” Berry asserted.
Admitting how Thornton’s icebreaking process eased her, Halle Berry also subtly pointed at what broke offAngelina Jolieand Billy Bob Thornton’s marriage. Tying the knot in 2000, Jolie and Thornton divorced just three years later, in 2003. Thus, considering the timeline ofMonster’s Ball(2001), it is hard to overlook that Berry’s involvement might have initiated a crack in Jolie’s first marriage.
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Read more:“We f**ked in the car on the way here”: Angelina Jolie Recalled Going Raunchy Just Before Attending Her $237M Film Premiere
Source:The New York Times
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