![]() “I was sure the script truck would just back itself up to my front door. “I was very disheartened after winning that gorgeous guy,” says Berry, who looks as young as she did on the night she walked onto the Oscar podium. It’s for the women that stand beside me – Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett – and it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”īut more than two decades later, powered along by Me Too, questions about representation and the jailing of Harvey Weinstein, that door is only now coming unlatched.īerry winning Best Actress for Monster’s Ball in 2002 “This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. “This moment is so much bigger than me,” she said, through tears, as she received the statuette for her role in Monster’s Ball. ![]() When Halle Berry won the 2002 Oscar for best actress – the first time in the Academy’s 74-year history that it had been awarded to a black woman – there was no doubting what the win meant. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |