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Halle Berry is giving a sweet little shout-out to her former co-star Pierce Brosnan.

Last week, Berry did an interview with Wired, where she looked back on past roles, including 2002’s Die Another Day. The Oscar winner appeared opposite the former James Bond star in the 2002 flick as the Bond girl Jinx.

The movie was a critical flob and ended up being Pierce’s last turn as the iconic spy after a seven-year run that kicked off with 1995’s GoldenEye. However, Berry said the British star “will always be my Bond”, and that moreover, he single-handedly gave her hope for men worldwide.

“He will always be my Bond, always,” Berry said when asked about her experience on the movie. “I’m a Pierce Brosnan fan. He restored my faith in men on that movie. There couldn’t be a human who is more of a gentleman than Pierce Brosnan.”

“Bond wasn’t on my wish list, no, not to be in one, but I loved the movies, always,” Berry continued. “Having been in one, I feel like I’m a part of cinematic history. … Those movies are iconic. They will forever be a part of our history, and I’m really honored to have been a part of one, especially with Pierce.”

Variety notes that Berry’s role as the National Security Agency operative in Die Another Day proved to be such a huge win among Bond fans that franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson started planning for Berry to get her own spinoff movie.

But the plan was foiled in 2020 when MGM got cold feet about the film’s $80 million budget.

“That decision left Broccoli incensed. One of her main goals as a steward of 007 has been to shake off some of the chauvinism that characterised Bond’s appearances in the novels and early films.”

“It was very disappointing,” Berry later told Variety about losing the Jinx movie.

“It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”

Berry ― the only black woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Actress, for the 2001 film Monster’s Ball ― has spent the last few weeks promoting her latest role in The Union opposite Mark Wahlberg.

She’s also publicly celebrated her 58th birthday, posed topless to mark the 20th anniversary of Catwoman, and essentially told critics of the 2004 superhero flop to quit whining.

 Last week, she said on The Tonight Show of the movie: “You know, the critics said it sucked balls … Balls aren’t that bad.”

Watch the firecracker’s Wired video interview in the post below.

[source:variety]