Fashin Wire Daily

New York - Halle Berry looked gorgeous as usual in a glittery black minidress at the New York premiere of her new mystery thriller “Perfect Stranger” on Tuesday night at the Ziegfeld Theater, as she hugged her co-star
Bruce Willis. Both were giddy about the release of the film on Friday the 13th, confident that it will be a lucky day for their cat-and-mouse drama to release.

“It gave me a chance to do yet another character, to do something that I had never done before, to play a character who plays a character who plays yet another character,” she said, referring to the three different personas she takes on in the film, “seemed like a real challenge.”

A “perfect” chance, in fact, to take a risk, which is what the 40-year-old Academy Award winner insisted drives all her professional choices.

“I never wanted to let [having an Oscar] get in the way. I think that’s where the Oscar curse comes from and career suicide,” Berry confided. “I think that you can wait yourself right out of your career when you think, ‘I’ve got an Oscar and so let me do only Oscar worthy material.’ What is Oscar worthy material? Who is to say that today? I think that it’s about doing things that we love. I mean, that’s how I got the first Oscar, by doing what I loved, what I was passionate about. I took a risk and a chance and many people said that would end my career and that changed it. I just don’t want to operate as if I have that statue.”

Getting the first chance to check out her latest risk-risk taking role brought out a lot of Halle’s famous friends at the gala premiere and after party, including
Tim Robbins,
Julia Stiles, Adriana Lima, Pat Sajak,
Edward Burns, and Christy Turlington, along with her “Perfect Stranger” co-stars Willis and
Giovanni Ribisi.

So will Halle Berry win another Oscar for her work in “Perfect Stranger”? She refused to predict anything so bold, but certainly seemed content in the position in Hollywood that winning that special gold statue has afforded her, giving her the power to pick and choose the films that make her happy to be a part of.

“It’s given me a sort of weight. It has forced filmmakers and my peers in Hollywood to look at me differently and take me more seriously,” she smiled.