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Halle Berry cautioned Cynthia Erivo about reality of Oscar win. The Die Another Day star, who was the first and is still the only Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar has revealed that she advised the Wicked actress not to place too much weight on winning an Academy Award because it didn't change her career as significantly as she expected. ”You goddamn deserve it, but I don't know that it's going to change your life. It cannot be the validation for what you do, right?" she recalled what she told Erivo in a profile interview with The Cut. The 59-year-old shared that she expected to be inundated with scripts after her historic win for Monster's Ball in 2002. Unfortunately, Hollywood's response to her success wasn't quite what she anticipated. ”That Oscar 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," she said. “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.’” Erivo has been nominated for the Best Actress Oscar twice, for her portrayal of abolitionist Harriet Tubman in 2019's Harriet and for her performance as the green-skinned witch Elphaba in the 2024 movie musical Wicked. Berry is currently promoting her new movie, Crime 101, which also stars Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo. The crime thriller will be released on 13 February.
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