She could have blamed "Muh racism" for this movie failing, but she had class and accepted she was in a bad movie. Iger Disney, and all their DEI actresses should learn from this, but they aren't interested in Hollywood history, only The Message.
shareNew Halle comments on Catwoman. She didn't blame racism but I thought she was gonna when I was reading this.
“I didn’t love [the backlash],” said Berry. “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. I didn’t want to be casual about it, but I went and collected that Razzie, laughed at myself, and kept it moving. 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.”
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 don’t think it’s a God-awful film, but I was at the Razzies, so I had to do what they do; I s— on it because they s— on it!” Berry recalled. “I wrote [that speech] within an inch of my life. I put a lot of thought into how I could do it in a fun way and let everyone know I didn’t take it that seriously. You can never take away my Oscar, no matter how bad you bash me! If you say I earned it, I’ll take this, too.”
“I always thought the idea of Catwoman saving women from a face cream felt a bit soft,” Berry told Entertainment Weekly. “All the other superheroes save the world; they don’t just save women from cracked faces. I always knew that was a soft superhero plight, but at that time in my career, I didn’t have the agency I have today or belief that I could challenge that, so I went along with it.”share