Overview
- In a new profile with The Cut, Berry says her 2002 win for Monster’s Ball “didn’t necessarily change the course” of her career and recalls expecting a flood of offers that never came.
- She describes directors questioning whether casting a Black woman would force a film to be labeled a “Black movie” and claims they worried such films would not sell overseas.
- Berry says she advised two-time Best Actress nominee Cynthia Erivo not to count on an Oscar to change her life and not to treat it as validation for her work.
- She remains the only Black woman to have won Best Actress, and outlets note similar post-Oscar frustrations voiced by Lupita Nyong’o about limited, typecast offers.
- Berry is promoting Crime 101, due February 13, 2026, co-starring Chris Hemsworth, and coverage also notes her recent clash with California Gov. Gavin Newsom over a vetoed menopause bill tied to her company Respin.