American stars Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg star as old flames in the thriller, The Union. LOS ANGELES – Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry play old flames in the action comedy The Union, which sees a construction worker named Mike (Wahlberg) being recruited by ex-girlfriend Roxanne (Berry) into a high-stakes spy mission. And the two American movie stars also have a long shared history in real life.
At the recent Los Angeles premiere of the new thriller, Berry, 58, reveals they “go way back” as friends even though this is their first time on screen together. “I’ve known Mark since the late 1980s,” says Berry, who won the Best Actress Oscar for the romance drama Monster’s Ball (2001) – the first African American and non-white actress to take home the award. Linking arms with Wahlberg on stage as they introduce The Union, which premieres on Netflix on Aug 16, she says: “We’ve been friends for so long and working with Mark was the thing I didn’t know I needed.
” It was Wahlberg, a producer on the movie, who called her up and asked her to co-star. The thriller follows Mike and his long-lost high school sweetheart, secret agent Roxanne, as they navigate a dangerous mission across Europe. And the chemistry between the characters on screen reflects how well she and Wahlberg know each other, Berry says.
“We got to put our relationship and our sensibilities on display in this film, and it’s a tribute to how long we’ve known each other, our work ethic and our d.