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Recently Released In Theaters Reviews
2012 Twilight: New Moon Planet 51 The Blind Side Mammoth Red Cliff Dare The Messenger Pirate Radio Precious The Fourth Kind The Box A Christmas Carol Men Who Stare at Goats The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Recently Added Spotlights Paul Rudd Jason Segel Nicolas Cage Rose Byrne Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore Jared Padalecki Amanda Righetti Clive Owen Naomi Watts Joaquin Phoenix Steve Martin Renee Zellweger Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Dustin Hoffman |
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 Halle Berry
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime
Halle Berry has, for years, been one of Hollywood’s most beautiful, beloved, and most talented actresses. What better person to play the role of a character that is essentially acting herself than one who has already played so many different ones on screen so efficiently? In the newly-released thriller Perfect Stranger, Berry plays Rowena, a journalist that goes undercover to leak out the secret of a businessman, played by Bruce Willis, as her best friend’s killer. She said the character engaging in such levels of mystique was what intrigued her to take the role in the first place. “I really wanted to play this part, desperately wanted to play her,” Halle reveals, “It provided a new challenge for me. I had to stretch myself in new ways. I learned a lot about the part of acting when you are playing an actor within playing a character, I think there’s always new things to learn and James Foley was always really helpful in reminding me that I had to act well enough, so I, Bruce Willis, and the Giovanni Ribisi character that they believed me, but not so that the audience forgot I was acting. So it was trying to walk that fine line.” She notes that the film’s theme of duality and the role of Rowena links in many ways to the nature of acting and the all the performing arts in general. “I think every industry has some level of duality at its core,” Berry explains, “Most movies heighten the experience of everyday life. That’s why it’s a movie and it’s not really real. It’s sort of a bird’s eye look into a situation and in this movie, all the characters are heightened. They’re all twisted in some way. They’re all hiding major secrets. They’re all terribly flawed and damaged and trying to survive in some weird way.” “I think we’re so quick to judge people by their package, by the way they look or the way they speak, or what we think we know about them,” she adds, “But do we really know who they really are based on what they see? Often times, I think the answer is no.” She said that working with director James Foley, who has previously done films like At Close Range and Glengarry Glen Ross, provided her with much opportunity for her and co-stars Willis and Ribisi to really refine their performances. “I think it’s a really important relationship, actor/director. And Foley is, without a doubt, one of the most communicative directors I’ve ever worked with,” Halle claims, “He knows how to speak the actor’s language. He knows how to speak in organic terms that we really respond to. He understands that language and he would always be giving us a chance to try. He would say, ‘It’s just film. OK, if that’s what you feel, try it, and we’ll see how it makes me feel.’ And if I moved like I should be, then that choice was right. He ... |
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