Halle Berry Interview: Moonfall
Halle Berry has been one of the biggest names in Hollywood for decades, doing everything from winning an Oscar, playing superheroes, and directing a movie. Her latest project, Moonfall, sees her star in a classic Roland Emmerich disaster movie. Berry's Jocinda Fowl is part of the team tasked with saving the Earth from impending destruction after a mysterious force knocks the moon out of its orbit.
Screen Rant spoke with Berry to discuss her experience making Moonfall, including her time shooting zero-gravity scenes.
Related: Read Screen Rant's Moonfall Review
Screen Rant: I love a Roland Emmerich disaster movie. Are you with me in that disaster movies are weirdly comforting?
Halle Berry: Yes, because usually there are humans at the center of those movies who are saving the day. And that makes me feel good about humanity, and what we can actually do. So, yes.
Correct me if I have my timeline wrong, but I think this is the first movie you've done since directing Bruised. Walking onto the set, did you feel like you had a different perspective? Do you feel a shift when you walk onto a set like Moonfall after directing?
Halle Berry: I did, and for copious reasons. But probably the biggest one was, now having been a director and put a shooting schedule together, I walked on that set realizing I would never say or ask the question, «Why are we shooting this in this order?»
Before I actually had to put a shooting schedule together, I would always wonder, «Why are they doing it this way? It'd be so much easier if they did it that way or put the scene before that scene.» Now I understand there's reasons that we all don't know about, that only the director and production team knows about, why you shoot certain things on certain
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