Halle Berry says winning an Oscar back in 2002 didn’t have a great impact on her career, and directors were still unsure of casting her in the films. The actor became the only Black woman to win in the Best Actress category for her role in 2001’s film Monster’s Ball.Berry, who will next feature in Crime 101, said, “It didn’t necessarily change the course of my career…After I won it, I thought there was going to be, like, a script truck showing up outside my front door. While I was wildly proud of it, I was still Black that next morning. Directors were still saying, ‘If we put a Black woman in this role, what does this mean for the whole story? Do I have to cast a Black man? Then it’s a Black movie. Black movies don’t sell overseas,” she told an entertainment news outlet.


