Halle Berry on Getting Mistaken for Toni Braxton, Unusual Skills, and Guilty Pleasures

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Go behind the scenes of Marie Claire's Changemakers Issue cover shoot with star Halle Berry. In our Boss Behavior interview, the actress reveals her most awkward fan encounter, her views on guilty pleasures, how she landed her first job, and more.

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00:00I had the most amazing interaction with the fan.

00:03She came up to me and she said, oh my god, oh my god, I gotta have your autograph.

00:08And she pulls out a thing, I sign the paper, I give it back to her, and she's like, I thought

00:11you were Toni Braxton.

00:13Marie Claire, I'm Halle, mother , Barry, bitch up.

00:19You got me in like a Lacey number with black pasties, that's what it looks like.

00:24Only for you.

00:26Ooh, unusual skills.

00:29I can play the flute, I bet y'all didn't know that.

00:31I can still do a backflip, bet you didn't know that.

00:34Could you demonstrate the backflip for us?

00:36Yeah, would you like to see it?

00:37Follow me.

00:38Just kidding!

00:42Being on Capitol Hill with Congress and fighting for something that's important for all women,

00:48that was a boss moment.

00:49We were lobbying for a bill for menopause research, and I can't think of a time that I felt like,

00:55oh, I'm really doing something that matters, that's important.

01:00And only we women, we change it for ourselves.

01:02And we've been told that it's something not to talk about, we should act like it's not happening,

01:05but guess what?

01:06It is happening.

01:07I do feel like sometimes I'm asked to inspire people.

01:13I think that's one of the most important things we can do as human beings, is to inspire other

01:18people to move them to make a change, or to do something, or to make a move, or to be active.

01:24I don't always do it.

01:26A girl can't be inspiring every day, but I do take it seriously.

01:31Ooh, my work wives!

01:33Well, one of my work wives is Lindsay Flores.

01:37She's my bad and bougie, I'm bad, she's bougie, and so we get into all kinds of trouble together.

01:41Natalie Russ, she's my sweetheart, sweetheart.

01:44We're building a business together.

01:45She's always got the gummies.

01:48Allie Tam, she's my new work wife.

01:51I just kind of married her.

01:53Oh, Sarah Tess, Sarah Tess, another one of my work wives.

01:55Oh my God, how could I miss my baby Sarah Tess?

01:58Oh yeah, Sarah is the youngest, oldest person I know.

02:01I don't think there's anything as a guilty pleasure.

02:04I think pleasure is pleasure.

02:05I never feel guilty when I'm pleasuring myself.

02:10What I wore to my first audition, I don't know what I had on my body, but I can tell you this.

02:14I had long curly hair like every other black young woman at the time, and so what I wore to my

02:21first audition that got me the job was my haircut.

02:24I decided I was going to cut all this long curly hair off, and I was going to be different.

02:29I was going to stand out.

02:30Everybody told me, if you do that, you're never going to work.

02:32You won't be commercial, and I did it anyway.

02:34So it was taking a risk.

02:35It was being authentically who I was, and it made me stand out, and I'm convinced that's the only

02:40reason I got the job.

02:42Halle Berry always brings herself to the table, and I come however I am.

02:45If I'm happy, I'm happy.

02:46If I'm sad, I'm sad.

02:47If I'm not in the mood, I am not in the mood.

02:50That's the most authentic way.

02:51I think I can show up, and I love when that's how other people show up.

02:54A changemaker can mean so many different things.

02:57Having the courage to walk in your truth, be bold, you know, doing something for culture,

03:03for the community, for women, for a group, for a minority, if they're helping others.

03:08To me, that's a part of changing the way we all see the world.

03:12If I can impart some wisdom, I would say, remember that if you're going through hell,

03:17keep on going, and that you should fight to always be your authentic self.

03:22Whatever that is.

03:23Find out what that is, and then fight to have the confidence to be that.

03:27So that's a wrap on Changemaker's Issue.

03:30Happy 30th birthday.

03:32Bye.

03:32Peace.

03:33Chicken goes.

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