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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘I was still black the next morning’: Halle Berry says Oscar win didn’t change her career

Halle Berry at the London premiere of Crime 101.
Halle Berry at the London premiere of Crime 101. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Reuters

Halle Berry, the only black woman to have won the best actress Oscar, says her 2002 victory “didn’t necessarily change the course of my career”.

Speaking to The Cut’s Monica Corcoran Harel to promote new drama Crime 101, Berry said that she anticipated the victory, for Lee Daniels’ Monster’s Ball, would mean “there was going to be a script truck showing up outside my front door”.

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