Halle Berry Addresses Rumors She Was ‘Really F***ing’ Billy Bob Thornton in ‘Monster’s Ball’
Halle Berry has finally cleared up long-held rumors that she and Billy Bob Thornton were “really doing it” during that explicit Monster’s Ball sex scene.
“We had this very explicit love scene,” Berry said during an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast Monday. “There’s an urban legend that we really were f---ing—I’ve heard it and it’s just not true.”
Berry’s work on the film would earn her her first Oscar for Best Actress, and the first Oscar in that category ever for a Black woman. She explained in the interview her annoyance that some viewers can’t just accept that she has great acting chops, opting instead to assume that the scene just “had to be real.”