Two decades later,Halle Berryis looking back at her DC solo outing and what went wrong.
All the other superheroes save the world; they dont just save women from cracked faces.
I didnt love [the backlash], said Berry.
Halle Berry in ‘Catwoman’ 2004.Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Collection
Im used to defying stereotypes and making a way out of no way.
It didnt derail me because Ive fought as a Black woman my whole life.
A little bad publicity about a movie?
Sharon Stone and Halle Berry inCatwoman(2004). (Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Berry said the studio knew what I was going to do at the satirical awards show.
I told them I wanted to take the piss out of it and laugh at it, she said.
I wrote [that speech] within an inch of my life.
If you say I earned it, Ill take this, too.
