‘I Didn’t Know the World of Crack’: Halle Berry Opens Up About Her Eye-Opening Experiences in Drug Dens and Loving Portraying a ‘Crack Ho’

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Some of Halle Berry’s most gritty and unglamorous roles have been her favorites to portray in her three decades-spanning career. The 58-year-old made her big film debut in the 1991 Spike Lee joint “Jungle Fever,” playing opposite Samuel L. Jackson as crack addict Vivian to addict Gator. While Jackson knew firsthand what it was like to deal with drug addiction — ironically, his role in the movie was the first time he acted while sober after kicking what he once considered a functional habit — Berry did not. She had no experience with drug use, nor had she grown up in an environment where narcotics were commonplace. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 12: Halle Berry attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images) But in a recent interview for “Sway’s Universe,” she told the hosts that roles like Vivian and her turn in the 1995 film “Losing Isaiah,” where she played crack-addicted mother Khaila Richards fighting to regain custody of her son, Isaiah, she found the mental and emotional toll of the characters taxing and fulfilling....

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