Halle Berry Open To Making a CATWOMAN Sequel if She Could Direct It
Halle Berry’s Catwoman was not the best superhero movie to come out of DC, but over the years she’s come to embrace the film and is even open to returning to reprise her role in a sequel if she got to direct it.
Berry was recently a guest on The Tonight Show and was asked about making a sequel by Jimmy Fallon. She responded: “Maybe, if I could direct it.”
Berry also recalled the film on its 20th anniversary saying she “loved it” and addressed the film being “panned” by critics.
The actress said: “What I’m happy about is… the children have found it now on the internet. The kids love it. So it’s so vindicating because now they’re saying, ‘It’s cool,’ and ‘What the heck was everybody’s problem with it?’ So, I’m like, ‘I’m so brat now.'”
Berry previously talked about how she was not a fan of the backlash, and she hated how the film’s failure was put squarely on her shoulders even though there were other people involved with making that film like the writers, the director, and the producers.
Barry said: “I felt like it was Halle Berry’s failure, but I didn’t make it alone. All these years, I’ve absolutely carried it.”
When talking about the negative reaction to the film after it was released, Berry said: “I didn’t love [the backlash]. Being a Black woman, I’m used to carrying negativity on my back, fighting, being a fish swimming upstream by myself.
“I’m used to defying stereotypes and making a way out of no way…It didn’t derail me because I’ve fought as a Black woman my whole life. A little bad publicity about a movie? I didn’t love it, but it wasn’t going to stop my world or derail me from doing what I love to do.”
She went on to share what she hated about the whole thing: “I hated that it got all put on me, and I hate that, to this day, it’s my failure. I know I can carry it.
“I still have a career 20 years later. It’s just part of my story. That’s okay, and I’ve carried other failures and successes. People have opinions, and sometimes they’re louder than others. You just have to keep moving.”
Catwoman was shot on a reported budget of $100 million and made $82.4M worldwide. The film won several Razzies in 2005, taking trophies for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay. Berry also won a Razzie for Worst Actress, and attended the ceremony to pick up her award.