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26
May 2006
Catwoman
Was Highlight, Says
Halle
Berry
Hollywood
beauty Halle
Berry
has described her movie
flop Catwoman as one of
her career
"highlights".
The
star was at the Cannes
Film Festival for the
premiere of her new X
Men film, with co-stars
Sir Ian McKellen, Hugh
Jackman, and director
Brett Ratner.
Catwoman,
one of the Halle Berry's
most recent films, was
trashed by critics and
earned the Oscar-winner
a Razzie, Hollywood's
prize for the worst
performances.
But
the star, 39, said: "I
had a wonderful
experience on Catwoman,
a wonderful experience.
As an actor hopefully
your career is long.
Sometimes you birth
babies, that's how every
film feels like when you
present it to the world.
Some perform well, some
don't. The audience has
a right to reject
certain things. But it
doesn't mean the
experience was anything
less meaningful for me
than anything else I've
ever done."
"In
fact it was one of the
highlights because I
pushed myself and grew
as an artist in ways
that never will be
realised by anybody but
me," she
added.
Halle
Berry said she refused
to be a victim of the
so-called Oscar Curse,
"that once someone is
lucky enough to have won
the award, they often
allow the pressure of
the industry and of
other people to come sit
down on their
shoulders."
She
added: "That pressure
says that now you've won
this award you're
somebody special,
somehow different than
you were before. I never
wanted that to happen, I
didn't receive that
award by perceiving
myself as someone
special or different.
What I want to do, what
I've wanted to do, is
continue approaching my
career as an artist who
is lucky to be working,
a woman of colour trying
to make her way out of
nowhere, someone who
reserves the right to
take chances and
risks."
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