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Halle Berry nonetheless stands by her iconic speech on the Razzies, 20 years later.
Since 1981, the Golden Raspberry Awards have functioned as an anti-awards present, handing out honors for the largest failures, flops and missteps within the film trade. In 2004, Berry, 57, made the uncommon choice to simply accept her award for Worst Actress in particular person, after starring within the field workplace bomb Catwoman.
“I’d written [my speech] inside an inch of my life. I put a variety of thought into how I may do it in a enjoyable method and let everybody know that I didn’t take it that severely,” she advised Leisure Weekly as a part of the twentieth anniversary oral historical past of Catwoman. “You’ll be able to by no means take away my Oscar, irrespective of how unhealthy you bash me! If you happen to say I earned this, all proper, I’ll take this, too. You settle for the great issues folks say, and settle for after they don’t say great issues.”
Berry appeared on the ceremony carrying her Finest Actress Oscar for 2001’s Monster’s Ball and roasted Warner Bros. for tanking her post-Oscar cachet.
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“No, I don’t have to provide this again. It’s acquired my identify on it,” Berry mentioned of her Oscar, earlier than focusing on the film studio. “You don’t win a Razzie with out a variety of assist from lots of people, so please indulge me … I need to thank Warner Bros. Thanks for placing me in a bit of s—, God-awful film. It was simply what my profession wanted, you realize? I used to be on the high, and Catwoman simply plummeted me to the underside. Find it irresistible!”
In her interview with EW, she mentioned that Warner Bros. knew of her intention to provide a speech on the Razzies.
“The studio knew what I used to be going to do. I advised them I wished to take the piss out of it and giggle at it,” she mentioned. “I don’t suppose it’s a God-awful movie, however I used to be on the Razzies, so I needed to do what they do; I s— on it as a result of they s— on it! I attempted to be one in every of them.
With 20 years of hindsight, Berry thinks the film’s status is unearned. She mentioned she holds no arduous emotions for the staff behind the film and nonetheless enjoys the completed product.
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“I knew how a lot arduous work went into it, not solely on my half however on everyone’s half. You by no means got down to make one thing critics determine to pan,” Berry mentioned. “I marveled at the truth that we did it. I acquired to see my model of Catwoman. I didn’t have any unfavourable emotions.”
Berry additionally shared that no quantity of unfavourable evaluations may knock her profession off-course.
“It didn’t derail me, as a result of I’ve fought as a Black girl my entire life. Just a little unhealthy publicity a couple of film? I didn’t like it, nevertheless it wasn’t going to cease my world or derail me from doing what I like to do,” she mentioned.
