Halle Berry Says She’s ‘Heartbroken’ No Women Of Color Have Won Best Actress Oscar After Her
hollywoodlife.comHalle Berry, 55, made history at the 2002 Academy Awards for her role in the drama film Monster’s Ball. She became the first woman of color to win the Best Actress award — an accomplishment that sadly hasn’t been repeated at the ceremony since. “I do feel completely heartbroken that there’s no other woman standing next to me in 20 years,” Halle said on ABC News and Hulu’s Screen Queens Rising special, streaming now. “I thought, like everybody else, that night meant a lot of things would change,” she added.
The X-Men actress said she thought “there would be other” women of color taking home the Best Actress trophy in the following years.
She also expressed frustration that her career didn’t boom in the ways she hoped post-Oscars win. “I thought I would have the script truck back up to my front door and I’d have an opportunity to play any role I wanted,” Halle said. “That didn’t happen.” But Halle still acknowledged how impactful her Oscar win was. “What I do know happened that day is that so many people of color got inspired.
We didn’t have Ava DuVernay 20 years ago, and Lena Waithe,” she said. “But when I look around and I see my brothers and sisters working and thriving and telling their own stories from their point of view, I’m proud of that, and I see the movement forward.
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