Pregnant actress Halle Berry – who won an Oscar for her role in the 2001 Marc Forster film ‘Monster’s Ball’ – as well as a Golden Globe for TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge; and has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, has revealed her proudest moments.

On her proudest moment, Halle, 41, said “I’ve had many in my career. I have an Oscar and now I’ve a star on Hollywood Boulevard. I kissed it and then someone told me crackheads and drug addicts shoot up and do their drugs on the sidewalk. I was like ‘Do you have to remind me? I’m having a moment.”

In September last year, Berry – who confirmed that she was three months pregnant and expecting a boy, also revealed what wining an Oscar meant to her “It just meant on that day my industry said ‘You did good’ if I don’t ever win another one, it wouldn’t mean I wasn’t good,” she said. “You have to it with a grain of salt . That’s why after winning, I resisted the feeling of: ‘Now I only have to do great parts.’ I got here by wanting to learn and grow and have fun. In Monster’s Ball I went nude, which was really scary, but I took the chance to try something new and I want to keep that approach to my career.”

When asked if she likes who she works with now, the ‘Perfect Stranger’ star, said: “I still want to work with Denzel Washington. I’m hoping that one day the right script will come along and Denzel will give me a call.”

And Halle – who played ‘Catwoman’ in the hit 2004 movie of the same name, spoke about her feelings towards the movie: “I thought it was one of the best movies ever,” she said. “Well, it was definitely different from any other I had seen. It was about a woman feeling empowered. I thought that we needed a better villain, but I was outnumbered in that area. You just never know how people are going to respond. I thought that Monster’s Ball was going to end my career. And look what happened. You just never know.”

And on her relationship with her mother, Berry added: “I’m extremely close to my mother even though I left home when I was 17. She now lives a few blocks away from me in LA, which is great because it means we can have coffee together in the morning. If I’m going on a trip, I can just run over and pack her bag so she can come with me.”

“Rambo” is preparing to return from retirement in Thailand early next year, and Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington will also come here next month to play a drug lord in the upcoming film “American Gangster,” a Thai film official said on Thursday.

Sylvester Stallone will spend several weeks in Thailand early next year, shooting “Rambo IV: In the Serpent’s Eye” in the country’s lush, mountainous northern provinces, said Wanasiri Morakul, director of the Thailand Film Office.

In the latest sequel, John Rambo is pulled out of retirement in Bangkok to help find missionary aid workers who disappear as they’re delivering supplies to ethnic minorities in neighboring Myanmar.

About 70 to 80 percent of the movie will be shot in Thailand — in Bangkok and the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai — earning Thailand more than 200 million baht ($5 million, euro4 million), Wanasiri told The Associated Press by telephone.
She said that after a committee read the “Rambo” script, they gave the green light for the shoot in Thailand, but voiced concern that violence in the movie could reflect badly on ethnic minorities on the Thai-Myanmar border.

She also wanted the filmmakers to assure villagers and environmentalists that any bombing scenes — “in that ‘Rambo’ style” — would not harm the environment.

Activists were up in arms over the “The Beach,” shot in 2000 and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, complaining a beach in a Thai national park was damaged during the shooting. The filmmakers denied it.

Washington will come to Thailand Nov. 8-13 to play Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas in “American Gangster,” about drugs smuggled to New York in the 1970s inside the coffins of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

Only about 5 percent of the movie will be shot in Thailand — in the capital Bangkok and in the mountainous north — employing about 250 Thais and bringing the country at least 60 million baht (US$1.6 million, euro1.3 million), Wanasiri said.

Thailand has touted itself as an ideal film location and had a total of 372 shoots this year for foreign movies, TV series, ads and music videos, worth 1.38 billion baht (US$37 million, euro29 million).

Recent blockbusters shot partially in Thailand include “Alexander” and “Star Wars Episode III.”

TheHimalayanTimes.com