Halle Berry has opened up about feeling guilty over the failure of the widely panned superhero film Catwoman.
via: New York Post
The first woman of color to win an Oscar for Best Actress (for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball”) is still thinking about her Razzie-winning role as “Catwoman” in that 2004 superhero flick.
In a recent interview with entertainment journalist Jake Hamilton on his YouTube series “Jake’s Takes,” the 55-year-old actress and filmmaker reminisced about her debatable portrayal as the DC Comics’ feline-esque anti-hero. And despite its outsized $100 million budget — about as big as they came two decades ago — the film was considered a box office bomb after reaping only about $80 million in ticket sales, as AV Club reported.
Asked if she could return to any of her previous projects to direct herself, she chose “Catwoman,” then directed my French filmmaker and special effects guru Jean-Christophe “Pitof” Comar.
“I would love to direct ‘Catwoman,’” Berry, who directed the upcoming Netflix film “Bruised,” told Hamilton in the remote interview.
“If I can get ahold of that now, knowing what I know, having had this experience, and reimagine that world the way I reimagined this story … ‘Bruised’ was written for a white, Irish Catholic, 25-year-old girl, and I got to reimagine it,” she explained.
“I wish I could go back and reimagine ‘Catwoman’ and redo that. Have a redo on that, now knowing what I know,” she said, referring to her new gig as director.
“I would have ‘Catwoman’ saving the world like most male superheroes do, and not just saving women from their faces cracking off,” the star of the upcoming doomsday thriller “Moonfall” continued. “I would make the stakes a lot higher, and I think make it more inclusive of both men and women.”
Berry called the much-maligned “Catwoman” a “piece of s–t, god awful movie” when she humbly accepted — live and in-person — her Razzie for Worst Actress at the 2004 awards. Undeterred, she vowed to the audience to never receive another.
Following Berry’s turn, fellow Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway would take on the “slinky” character in 2012 for “The Dark Knight Rises,” with Christian Bale as the titular Caped Crusader. And, next year, Zoë Kravitz will don the signature skin-tight catsuit in Robert Pattinson-starring “The Batman.”
Watch Halle’s full interview below.
