Speaker 1: Hey Vestie's Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're talking to Hollywood icon
Speaker 2: Halle Berry. Her new horror film Never Let Go is
Speaker 2: out tomorrow, and our conversation is pretty incredible. She gives
Speaker 2: me some love advice, and she reveals the shocking way
Speaker 2: her menopause symptoms were misdiagnosed as herpies. She even shares
Speaker 2: what she hopes her legacy will be. It's Thursday, September nineteenth.
Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Robe.
Speaker 3: And I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side
Speaker 3: from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together
Speaker 3: to share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 3: It's a big day today on the bright Side. Danielle,
Speaker 3: Big day, Big day, y'all. Halle Berry doesn't get bigger
Speaker 3: than that, Noah, doesn't you know. Halle Berry is a
Speaker 3: name that I heard a lot in my house when
Speaker 3: I was growing up, because my mom was an actor
Speaker 3: and she deeply admired Halle for a couple of reasons. First,
Speaker 3: Halle totally flipped the script on what it meant to
Speaker 3: be an actor of color in Hollywood and redefined the
Speaker 3: roles that could be offered to people of color.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And my mom when she was a black actor in
Speaker 3: the eighties, the roles that were available to her were
Speaker 3: like prostitute, domestic labor, you know, house cleaner. But then
Speaker 3: Halle with Monster's Ball, with winning the Oscar, I think
Speaker 3: really blew open the possibilities.
Speaker 1: And the potential for people of color in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But the second reason why I heard so much about
Speaker 3: Halle is because my mom really celebrated Halle as a
Speaker 3: mixed race woman. And I think it was my mom's
Speaker 3: way for her to show me that there were other
Speaker 3: women out there who looked like me and who were
Speaker 3: proudly showcasing their talents for the world to see. And
Speaker 3: I've heard Halle talk about what it was like growing
Speaker 3: up for her as a mixed race girl. And you
Speaker 3: know what happened when she moved to the white suburbs
Speaker 3: and she was one of three token black girls in
Speaker 3: her class.
Speaker 1: The names that she was called, all of that is
Speaker 1: so relatable, HM, and I just appreciate her honesty around
Speaker 1: this topic. Danielle, what do you think of when you
Speaker 1: think of Halle Berry.
Speaker 2: When I think of Halle Berry, I think of how
Speaker 2: women evolve in their lifetimes. She's had this hugely illustrious
Speaker 2: acting career and then all of a sudden she became
Speaker 2: a fierce advocate for women experiencing menopause. I mean, she
Speaker 2: literally joined senators on Capitol Hill to announce new menopause legislation.
Speaker 3: She really lights up when she talks about this issue too.
Speaker 3: You can tell that this is this is really going
Speaker 3: to be her next chapter, that she pours all of
Speaker 3: her heart and effort into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that gumption didn't start on the steps of
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill right like, it was sparked long before. I
Speaker 2: didn't know this previously, but Halle was the first black
Speaker 2: woman to represent the US in the Miss World competition
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six, and I think that determination and
Speaker 2: drive are just among the qualities that led her to
Speaker 2: become the first blackman to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
Speaker 2: And you know, we can throw out these accolades, but
Speaker 2: we often underestimate just how challenging it is to be
Speaker 2: the first in anything. And what I love about her
Speaker 2: is that she embodies the belief that while she may
Speaker 2: be the first, she won't be the last. So, just
Speaker 2: like so many of the interesting people that we've gotten
Speaker 2: to interview. I think the people that have been through
Speaker 2: the most have the most to give or to share.
Speaker 2: And you know, she's had these public triumphs and personal battles,
Speaker 2: and her resilience, combined with her advocacy for domestic violence
Speaker 2: survivors and menopause, makes her story all the more powerful
Speaker 2: and inspiring.
Speaker 1: Talk about inspiring.
Speaker 3: She's got a new movie out and she's producing it
Speaker 3: through her own production company called Hallie Holly. The movie
Speaker 3: is called Never Let Go. It's a horror film. It's
Speaker 3: out tomorrow, just in time for spooky season this fall. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's go ahead and bring her in. Halle Berry, Welcome
Speaker 3: to the bright Side.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I like the bright side.
Speaker 3: You have inspired so many women to hold the door
Speaker 3: open for others to follow through. I remember you saying
Speaker 3: that when you accepted your oscar, and you've inspired us
Speaker 3: on our show to hold the door open for candid
Speaker 3: conversations about a topic that we don't often talk about, menopause.
Speaker 3: You are honored by Time one hundred Health as you've
Speaker 3: lobbied for more extensive menopause research and treatment options, and
Speaker 3: you publish a lot of these discussions on your platform.
Speaker 1: Respin i'd love to know.
Speaker 3: What makes you hopeful about the future of policy in
Speaker 3: this space, I think because.
Speaker 4: The time is now. You know, I'm hopeful because we're
Speaker 4: at a place where I think women are starting to
Speaker 4: come together. It's like a movement that I'm trying to
Speaker 4: spearhead because women, I feel like, are coming together and
Speaker 4: we're realizing the importance of education in the space of
Speaker 4: women's longevity. Right when women start understanding how much they
Speaker 4: don't know, but how much they need to know, I
Speaker 4: think they're starting to stand up and say, hey, I
Speaker 4: demand more, I need more, I deserve more. Right. And
Speaker 4: so the more we can do that and join forces,
Speaker 4: I think the collective we is going to change what
Speaker 4: the past has been and we will get that those
Speaker 4: dollars spent, we will get those clinical trials done, we
Speaker 4: will you know, learn more about our bodies. We will
Speaker 4: be studied in ways that we were never studied before. Right,
Speaker 4: And so I feel that shift happening, and it's the
Speaker 4: reason I wake up in the morning, It's the reason
Speaker 4: I stay up at night. It's become my second life
Speaker 4: passion to make a difference for women in midlife.
Speaker 1: Hallie.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I personally admire about you
Speaker 2: is you're always innovating and pushing forward, and I think
Speaker 2: RESPIN is such a great example of that. It advocates
Speaker 2: for more education and research on paramenopause and menopause. I
Speaker 2: really am so curious as to what's been the biggest
Speaker 2: surprise to you as you've looked into the research and
Speaker 2: discovered where those dollars that you mentioned are being allocated
Speaker 2: for women's health.
Speaker 4: Well, you know the NRH, we often get money for,
Speaker 4: you know, women's health, but menopause or menopausal issues or
Speaker 4: women going through midlife those issues that gets the least
Speaker 4: amount of money. And when I realized that, that's when
Speaker 4: I realized, oh, I've got to stand up, I've got
Speaker 4: to put a microphone on this subject. Because that leveled
Speaker 4: me when I found that out, And what leveled me
Speaker 4: about it was every woman, if we're blessed, if we're
Speaker 4: lucky enough to live to our midlife, will go through
Speaker 4: perimenopause and menopause, and then we've got all those years after.
Speaker 4: So half the population spends half of their life because
Speaker 4: we're now living until we're eighty, and menopause starts in
Speaker 4: your late thirties early forties. Another misconception when I found
Speaker 4: that out. I've been in Perrie menopause probably for ten
Speaker 4: years before I even knew that I was there. When
Speaker 4: people realize these statistics, they go, oh my god, Yes,
Speaker 4: we've got to do something about it. You know, women
Speaker 4: were only allowed in clinical stuff UDI in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 4: Up until then, only men were studied in clinical studies.
Speaker 4: So you wonder why we know nothing about us, Well,
Speaker 4: this is why. So that's what was shocking to me
Speaker 4: when I started to realize how much a part of
Speaker 4: the conversation we have not been, but how much we
Speaker 4: deserve to be.
Speaker 2: It's still shocking when I hear those numbers, it's pretty unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and only thirteen percent of doctors in the United
Speaker 4: States have studied the menopausal, midlife woman body. And for
Speaker 4: all of them who have studied it, it's usually a
Speaker 4: chapter in medical school. A chapter, yeah, in medical school.
Speaker 4: So the ones who really are learned about it have
Speaker 4: had to go back and get higher education on their own.
Speaker 4: It's not because it was required of them in any
Speaker 4: way for their medical degrees.
Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for being vocal about this,
Speaker 3: because I feel like you really have been instrumental in
Speaker 3: normalizing these conversations. And you know, one of our producers
Speaker 3: on our staff actually saw you speak about this alongside
Speaker 3: doctor Joe Biden at this conference called a Day of
Speaker 3: Unreasonable Conversation, and you shared this wild story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought Joe Biden was gonna was I think
Speaker 4: she left her body.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have to tell them why though, Hollie, because
Speaker 3: you tell this wild, stranger than fiction story about how
Speaker 3: you went about getting your menopause symptoms trying to get
Speaker 3: a diagnosis and they were actually tragically misdiagnosed by your doctor.
Speaker 1: Can you share this story one more time with us?
Speaker 4: If you really want me to, we do. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: I was fifty four. Just want you to know at
Speaker 4: fifty four, nobody had talked to me about menopause at
Speaker 4: fifty four and now, and we know we started going
Speaker 4: into menopause at forty like that's like a tragedy right there.
Speaker 4: Then nobody had really sat me down and told me anyway.
Speaker 4: So at fifty four, I had been in a relationship
Speaker 4: with my person. You know, it took me a long
Speaker 4: time to find my person, but I found him and
Speaker 4: so we were enjoying like the first year of our relationship,
Speaker 4: everything was amazing. And one morning I woke up after
Speaker 4: sex and I went to go to the bathroom and
Speaker 4: it was excruciatingly hard to just urinate. I had no
Speaker 4: idea why. I had never felt this feeling before. And
Speaker 4: as the day went on, it got worse and worse
Speaker 4: and worse. So I went to see my doctor and
Speaker 4: I said, hey, I don't know what, like what's happening,
Speaker 4: but like I feel like I have razor blades in
Speaker 4: my vagina, like I've never felt this before. I can't
Speaker 4: go in to the bathroom. I can't shut my legs,
Speaker 4: like I said. My boyfriend had to drive me here
Speaker 4: because I'm just in a lot of pain. So he,
Speaker 4: you know, does his exam. He looks up there and
Speaker 4: he says, oh, I know exactly what this is. I said, great, Great.
Speaker 4: What he said, I hate to tell you this, but
Speaker 4: this looks like a really bad case of herpes. Oh,
Speaker 4: my heart, berees what I I said.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: He goes, I'm going to do the test and I'll
Speaker 4: send it out. You'll get the results back in three days.
Speaker 4: But I've been doing this a long time. I've seen
Speaker 4: this enough. This is a really bad case of herpes,
Speaker 4: and he's like, you got a new guy. I'm like yeah.
Speaker 4: He's like, well I think this is what this is. Sorry,
Speaker 4: So I go down. Of course my new guy is
Speaker 4: down there in the car. So I'm like, hey, you
Speaker 4: you got herpes. It's like, oh, I have herpes. I said, well,
Speaker 4: you clearly do have herpes, because now I have herpes.
Speaker 4: And I didn't have herpes before I knew you. I've
Speaker 4: never been told I have herpes. I said, well, let
Speaker 4: me be the first to tell you have herpes. You
Speaker 4: just gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Now two people got diagnosed with herpes.
Speaker 4: And so it caused a big, you know, friction between
Speaker 4: us because I would have thought that would be a
Speaker 4: conversation we would have had if he had herpes. None
Speaker 4: of these things are ever doing breakers, but like, there's
Speaker 4: a conversation should have. So he's I said, emn you
Speaker 4: need to go get a test because I've gotten a test,
Speaker 4: and then we're going to see like who's got the
Speaker 4: herpes here. So we both went and got a test.
Speaker 4: Sure enough, this test came back first and he comes
Speaker 4: to me and he says, well, I don't have herpees.
Speaker 4: So it looks like you're the one who has herpes,
Speaker 4: and thank god you didn't give it to me because
Speaker 4: I don't have it. So now of course I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh god, I have herpees? How did I get herpes?
Speaker 4: So then an hour or two later, my doctor calls
Speaker 4: me and he says, this is the craziest thing, Hallie,
Speaker 4: you do not have herpes. So I'm just like, thank
Speaker 4: you God, I don't have herpes. But I said, why
Speaker 4: did you tell me I had herpes? Like what is this?
Speaker 4: And he said, I don't really know what this is,
Speaker 4: but this is not herpes, so you have nothing to
Speaker 4: worry about. Well I left there full of worry because
Speaker 4: one he wasn't able to tell me what it was,
Speaker 4: and it was one of the most painful things I
Speaker 4: ever experienced I had ever gone through. So that got
Speaker 4: me on this investigative journey of what is going on
Speaker 4: with my body and why did this happen? And it
Speaker 4: didn't take me that long to figure out that this
Speaker 4: was a symptom of menopause, or in my case, perimenopause,
Speaker 4: when your estrogen starts to bottom out and many of
Speaker 4: your orifice become dry, your vagina, your eyes, and your mouth.
Speaker 4: I had the dry mouth. Also, one of another doctor
Speaker 4: tried to diagnose me with Chogren's disease, wanted to put
Speaker 4: me on steroids and take me down the path of
Speaker 4: having an autoimmune disease. Nope, it's just dry mouth. Your
Speaker 4: mouth gets dry. I realized I needed to take Omega
Speaker 4: sevens with Buckhorn oils, stop red wine because the tannins
Speaker 4: and red wine can dry you out and up my vitamins,
Speaker 4: and boom, I got better. So this is the kind
Speaker 4: of research that I'm fighting for so that women can
Speaker 4: understand what is happening to their bodies. And don't let
Speaker 4: doctors who haven't even studied your body, who really knows
Speaker 4: nothing about what happens to us when that estrogen leaves
Speaker 4: our bodies. Don't let them start telling you what's wrong.
Speaker 4: Start investigating on your own. That's what I did. That's
Speaker 4: how I got on this path, and I've been on
Speaker 4: that path ever since of self investigation, educating myself, talking
Speaker 4: to the doctors that do understand our bodies, who have
Speaker 4: studied I'm talking to other women who are in the
Speaker 4: same place. I am listening to things that they've tried
Speaker 4: that have helped them, sharing my stories. That's what we
Speaker 4: have to do right now as women while we sit
Speaker 4: here waiting for the studies to be done, we have
Speaker 4: to start talking with each other about it because we
Speaker 4: are all in this together, every single one of us.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have to take a quick break, but we'll
Speaker 2: be right back with more from Halle Berry. Stay with us,
Speaker 2: and we're back with Halle Berry.
Speaker 3: Halle, congratulations on your new horror film. It's called Never
Speaker 3: Let Go. In it, you play the mother of two
Speaker 3: young boys, and y'all are isolated in a post apocalyptic world.
Speaker 3: But Halle, this is such a big deal because this
Speaker 3: is the first film that you've released with your new company,
Speaker 3: Halle Holly, So what did you see in this script
Speaker 3: that made it worthy of becoming your first release?
Speaker 4: Well, first, I love this genre, you know, psychological thriller
Speaker 4: or slash horror. I love it. And when I read
Speaker 4: the script, it presented a world that I had never
Speaker 4: seen before, and certainly I haven't seen it with a
Speaker 4: black family, right, a black mother with her two black children.
Speaker 4: So the idea of as a mother giving birth to
Speaker 4: two children and for ten years, you never get to
Speaker 4: leave that house, you never get to leave those woods,
Speaker 4: and you are tethered to it by a rope in
Speaker 4: order for your survival. Just exploded all the things for me,
Speaker 4: and I thought, Wow, I really need to get inside
Speaker 4: this story. I really need to unpack this. I really
Speaker 4: need to understand why this happened, what's happening, how would
Speaker 4: they survive? And the idea of it just wildly intrigued me,
Speaker 4: wildly intrigued me. And because it also deals with elements
Speaker 4: of generational trauma, it also had something that I felt
Speaker 4: was very complicated and deep at its core. And I
Speaker 4: always like movies that leave me thinking deeply about something
Speaker 4: while I've had a great time and maybe I left,
Speaker 4: or I cried, or I was scared shitless. I love
Speaker 4: movies that leave me thinking, thinking about what I just saw,
Speaker 4: and sometimes even questioning what I just saw. And this,
Speaker 4: to me, did all of that. After I read the.
Speaker 2: Script, I saw something that you posted on Instagram. So,
Speaker 2: thirty three years ago, Spike Lee gave you a breakout
Speaker 2: role in Jungle Fever as Viv and you said it
Speaker 2: basically gave you an opportunity to break out from the
Speaker 2: gorgeous girl roles. And you wrote that he looked past
Speaker 2: your exterior, and I was thinking about how you were
Speaker 2: the it girl before we even started using the term
Speaker 2: it girl. Now it's all over the place, and I'm
Speaker 2: curious what the blessing and the curse has been of
Speaker 2: being an it girl.
Speaker 4: I do know that that stigma I felt like plagued
Speaker 4: me right and my first television role was playing a
Speaker 4: model in television, so I knew that I had work
Speaker 4: to do to sort of destigmatize myself and to get
Speaker 4: people to see me more clearly as an actor who
Speaker 4: I'd been studying, who was really wanting to not be
Speaker 4: put in that box. And the thing about Spike was
Speaker 4: he really first wanted me to play his wife you
Speaker 4: know that girl part. And I went to the audition
Speaker 4: because I wanted to meet Spike, always knowing that once
Speaker 4: I got in the room, I was going to flip
Speaker 4: the script and try to fight for myself to have
Speaker 4: an opportunity to play the role that I really wanted
Speaker 4: to play. And so luckily, to his credit, he allowed
Speaker 4: me to do that and got to see a deeper
Speaker 4: side of who I was, where I got to rely
Speaker 4: on something than the exterior. And it was a wonderful
Speaker 4: opportunity and it was a wonderful way to start my
Speaker 4: film career. And I'll never forget him for being able
Speaker 4: to see past that and to give me that chance,
Speaker 4: because it set me off down the right path.
Speaker 2: When you think about all the sets you've been on,
Speaker 2: all the productions you've been a part of, what's the
Speaker 2: most fun you've ever had in entertainment?
Speaker 4: You know that's hard because I always try to find
Speaker 4: the fun and everything that I'm doing, even on the
Speaker 4: sets that are less than perfect, shall we say yeah.
Speaker 4: I always try to find the people that are about
Speaker 4: the fun, the people that are about the joy, who
Speaker 4: realize that we're all blessed to be making movies, doing
Speaker 4: make believe as a career and getting paid to do it.
Speaker 4: I always try to align myself with those people and
Speaker 4: try to stay away from the drama of at all
Speaker 4: the best I can, because I've also learned, once you
Speaker 4: do a movie, how that movie turns out and how
Speaker 4: people receive it has nothing to do with me. That's
Speaker 4: out of my control. What I can control is that
Speaker 4: experience of making the movie. So I try to control
Speaker 4: that as much as I possibly can, And I say,
Speaker 4: this experience is all I have today. When this movie
Speaker 4: comes and goes, who knows what will happen, but this
Speaker 4: memory of this will be mine forever, right and this
Speaker 4: is making me me. This is the fabric of my life.
Speaker 4: It's happening right here. So let me make that the
Speaker 4: best possible version of itself I possibly can. And that's
Speaker 4: worked for me over the years.
Speaker 2: That you find the fun, I actually find that to
Speaker 2: be very rare in entertainment because people take their jobs
Speaker 2: so seriously.
Speaker 1: So I think that's really cool.
Speaker 4: I know, and I don't. You have to laugh at
Speaker 4: yourself first, to be able to laugh at any situation
Speaker 4: and find, you know, the good in it. It's also silly.
Speaker 4: One day we're not going to be here. We're going
Speaker 4: to be in a blip, you know. And I really
Speaker 4: believe three months after we die, and then six months
Speaker 4: after we die, a year after we die, does anybody
Speaker 4: really care in any real way? You know, we just
Speaker 4: become someone who was but life goes on, and I
Speaker 4: have a real clear knowing of that.
Speaker 2: So I'm thirty three, I'm very single, very single. And
Speaker 2: so you mentioned you found your person, and I feel
Speaker 2: like you've always been able to stay aligned for what's
Speaker 2: best for you throughout the highs and the lows. I'm
Speaker 2: wondering if you have any love advice for me at
Speaker 2: my big age of thirty three.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm usually not the one to give any love advice.
Speaker 4: Like you know, that's a hot take that you're asking
Speaker 4: me for that. But what I will tell you is
Speaker 4: I have been able to stay true. And I think
Speaker 4: as women, what I think I would say to you,
Speaker 4: You're gonna make mistakes, You're gonna choose someone not right
Speaker 4: for you. But that's how we grow, That's how we
Speaker 4: learn what is right for us. That's how we become
Speaker 4: better versions of ourselves. And what I would say is,
Speaker 4: if you find yourself in a situation that's not right
Speaker 4: for you, get out. Don't stays longer then you know
Speaker 4: in your heart you need to stay there. And I
Speaker 4: think as women, we have a hard time getting out
Speaker 4: of things because we fear the judgment. Oh how many
Speaker 4: is she gonna have? How many marriages? How many divorces?
Speaker 4: Like I don't care how many you have. Have the
Speaker 4: courage to get out, Have the courage to get out.
Speaker 4: Never stay stuck. Don't stay for the children. No, children
Speaker 4: don't need to see a miserable mom who is settled
Speaker 4: in life. Children need to see an empowered, logged on
Speaker 4: boss mom that dares to put her feelings first so
Speaker 4: that she can be the best version of herself for
Speaker 4: her children. So whatever you do, don't stay stuck anywhere
Speaker 4: you don't want to be. Have the courage to do first,
Speaker 4: and you will find it. If it's meant for you right,
Speaker 4: and it will be found, You'll find it. I don't
Speaker 4: think a relationship is then do'll be all. When I
Speaker 4: found man, I was so happy to be by myself.
Speaker 4: I said, I'm done with that. I'm just going to
Speaker 4: be solo and raised my children and have my career.
Speaker 4: And when I least expected it, when I finally was
Speaker 4: clear about who I was and what I would and
Speaker 4: wouldn't put up with in life and the path I
Speaker 4: was going down, that person showed up. But it's because
Speaker 4: I was not ready for that person to show up.
Speaker 4: Thank you for that.
Speaker 2: I also, I asked you because you've lived, and I
Speaker 2: love a woman who's lived.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, girl, I've lived and I'm still living. I
Speaker 4: have a whole act to do. Ies so excited about
Speaker 4: so excited to live that act? Yeah, what is that act?
Speaker 3: Is it what you're already doing with Respin or is
Speaker 3: it something a dream that you haven't talked about yet.
Speaker 4: Now it's my dream of Reespin. It's about, you know,
Speaker 4: empowering women through the second act of their lives, because
Speaker 4: that's where I'm at. So that's something that I know
Speaker 4: I can speak to authentically. I can fight for them
Speaker 4: because I'm fighting for myself and I think we've been
Speaker 4: so overlooked during this time of our lives. And I
Speaker 4: know that I'm just gearing up for the second act,
Speaker 4: and I want to walk through that in good health
Speaker 4: the best I can. I want to be around to
Speaker 4: see my grandchildren, if my children so you know, desire
Speaker 4: to have children. I want to be here for all
Speaker 4: of it. But I don't want to be a burden
Speaker 4: to them. I want to be as healthy as I
Speaker 4: possibly can be. So that's my act, my second act.
Speaker 3: We need to take another short break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: We're back with Halle Berry. Okay, Halle, you did say
Speaker 3: that you don't take things too seriously, so I'm going
Speaker 3: to ask you an unseerious question. This is the most
Speaker 3: unserious question you'll get all day. So you are an
Speaker 3: Oscar winner, of course, but you also deserve an Award
Speaker 3: for most number of shout outs and rap songs, because
Speaker 3: by my count, it's at least thirteen, Like I think
Speaker 3: it's actually way over that. I think that's an underestimate.
Speaker 3: But I'm dying to know. How you learn about these references?
Speaker 3: Do you get a text from your friends like who
Speaker 3: are like, Hey, you got to listen to this new song?
Speaker 3: Do google yourself every now and then? How do you
Speaker 3: find out about these zeitgeist references?
Speaker 4: Never googling myself? Okay, I don't know what might come up,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to even know. But sometimes people
Speaker 4: tell me. Sometimes I hear them on the radio or
Speaker 4: hear them and I go, oh my god, they just what.
Speaker 4: It's always so flattering and so amazing that, especially the
Speaker 4: younger generation, that they still consider me a part of
Speaker 4: their culture. You know what I mean in some way
Speaker 4: because sometimes I feel so far past it. But it's
Speaker 4: nice to know that they still include me, and my
Speaker 4: kids still think I'm cool because they get to hear
Speaker 4: my names and song.
Speaker 1: Do they really?
Speaker 3: I feel like that's the ultimate feather in your cap
Speaker 3: when you get that head tip from the younger generation.
Speaker 4: You know, my kids have no idea why they don't
Speaker 4: know why I'm cool. They don't know why I'm like why,
Speaker 4: like why they rap it? Why are they got you
Speaker 4: in the songs? Like they don't really understand that because
Speaker 4: they just see me like they don't get it. And
Speaker 4: that's like a big joke in our house because they're
Speaker 4: just like clueless. Oh my gosh, this is killing me.
Speaker 1: This is so funny.
Speaker 3: And then have you ever interacted with any of the
Speaker 3: artists who have included you in their songs? If you have,
Speaker 3: what have those interactions been?
Speaker 4: Like, this isn't a rap song, But I had a
Speaker 4: really sweet one with Bruno Mars. He had me in
Speaker 4: one of his songs and he asked me to do
Speaker 4: a recording, like a telephone recording for one of his songs.
Speaker 4: And I was a big fan of his, so when
Speaker 4: he asked me to do that, I was really honored
Speaker 4: by that.
Speaker 1: So wait, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Like Bruno Hallie, I think oftentimes our careers grow and
Speaker 2: evolve as we do as people, and I've observed that
Speaker 2: in your life for sure. I feel like we took
Speaker 2: a look back today. But in thinking ahead, what do
Speaker 2: you want your legacy to be? I?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know I don't often think about legacy.
Speaker 4: When you're so busy just doing your work, you don't
Speaker 4: really think about that. So that's an interesting question. I
Speaker 4: don't know if it'll if it will be my legacy,
Speaker 4: but what I hope people remember, because do know that
Speaker 4: I do believe it's just a blip and a very
Speaker 4: short period of time. We will not remember whatever I
Speaker 4: did here I think won't be that significant at all.
Speaker 4: But while we're remembering, I hope that people just see
Speaker 4: me as someone who dared to live her life on
Speaker 4: her own terms, march to be to her own drum
Speaker 4: right and pave a way for herself and by doing
Speaker 4: take away for others. Like that's really how I have
Speaker 4: seen my career. And I've taken big risks, I've won
Speaker 4: big I've lost, but I continue to stay relevant throughout
Speaker 4: all the years. I hope that will be the legacy
Speaker 4: that you know, that girl just kept going, she kept
Speaker 4: doing her thing her way, on her terms. That's what
Speaker 4: I hope they say.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Thank you, We really appreciate your time.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Hallie, You're the best.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you guys, having a beautiful day.
Speaker 3: Halle Berry is a director and Academy Award winning actor.
Speaker 3: Her new movie Never Let Go, is in theaters tomorrow,
Speaker 3: September twentieth.
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