has once again defended her infamous flop – this time with a cheeky joke. Berry, 58, starred as the titular superhero in the notorious 2004 film, which earned her a Razzie for worst performance of the year. On the 20th anniversary of its release, Berry has gone to bat for the film once again during an appearance on .
“I loved it,” the actor said to host . “It got panned. The critics said it sucked balls.
” Fallon responded, “Balls aren’t that bad,” to which Berry jokingly agreed: “Balls aren’t that bad.” “What I’m happy about is that the children have found it now on the internet, and they love it,” she continued. “So, it’s so vindicating.
Because now they’re saying it’s cool and what the heck was everybody’s problem with it?” Fans of the film will be delighted to hear that the Oscar-winner would be keen to reprise the role on one condition: if she was also to direct. Berry made her feature directorial debut in 2020 with the sports thriller , in which she starred as a disgraced MMA fighter. It is not the first time she has expressed an interest in directing the comic book film.
In 2021, she told that she would “love” the chance to “reimagine” the story. “If I can get a hold of that now, knowing what I know, having had this experience [on ], and reimagine that world the way I reimagined this story,” she said. “ was written for a white Irish Catholic 25-year-old girl, and I got to reimagine it.
I wish I could go back and reim.