Halle Berry reflects on Catwoman’s box office failure
“People have ideas, and sometimes they’re more vocal than others. You just have to keep pushing,” Berry told ‘Entertainment Weekly’ as the film turns twenty.
Halle Berry reflects on Catwoman’s dismal box office performance 20 years later, and how it still affects her personally. Berry, 57, admitted in an oral history interview with Entertainment Weekly — which also included the film’s director Pitof, producer Denise Di Novi,
and writer John Brancato — that she “didn’t love [the backlash],” and that it was difficult to handle despite being “used to defying stereotypes and making a way out of no way.”
That’s not to say she let it drag her down. “I didn’t want to be casual about it, but I went and collected that Razzie, laughed at myself, and kept it moving,” Berry told the audience. “It didn’t derail me because I’ve fought as a Black woman my whole life.”
“A little bad publicity for a movie? I didn’t like it, but it wasn’t going to ruin my life or prevent me from doing what I enjoyed,” she explained.Citing her “innate resilience”
as a Black woman, the Academy Award winner stated of the criticism that she “hated that it got all put on me,” adding, “And I hate that, to this day, it’s my failure.”
