It’s called show business for a reason, says actress Halle Berry. The 58-year-old sex symbol told Dax Shepard’s podcast on Monday that she didn’t really have sex with co-star Billy Bob Thornton in the 2001 film despite rumours to the contrary, reported the “We had this very explicit love scene,” said Berry, who became the first black woman to win the Best Actress Academy Award for her unflinching work in the movie. “There’s an urban legend that we really were f——.
I’ve heard it, and it’s just not true. It’s secretly driven me mad all these years.” In the movie, Berry plays a grieving widow who gets romantic with a corrections officer, played by Thornton, with the couple unaware that Thornton’s character assisted in executing the man Berry’s character was married to.
Berry told Shepard that their raunchy sex scene in the film caused them to be romantically linked in real life. “You can’t just be a good actor, and you can’t just make that s— look real,” Berry said. She also said Thornton, 69, was then married to Angelina Jolie.
“He had a wife, so, you know, all respect,” Berry said. “I know Angie and she ain’t signing off on that s—. I’m a girl’s girl.
I’ll do a lot of things, but I’m not going to sleep with your man.” Berry also said she never dated Spike Lee or Eddie Murphy: “Those are rumors too.” And the actress said pro wrestler Ric Flair made a false claim false they had sex in 1997.
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