Do Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry have real sex in Monster Ball?
This movie with an impressive and heartbreaking sex scene between Leticia; whose husband was executed on death row and Hank, the custodian who was in charge of directing the man to the electric chair.
The scene, which shows Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton pretending to have sex, was only a couple of excellent performances; they both performed it naked. "I was only thinking of doing it if Billy Bob agreed to be as naked as I was," says Halle Berry. "We did the scene on the 19th of a 21-day shoot. I always say that Billy Bob and I dated for three weeks and then went to bed. "
The actress won the Oscar for Best Actress for her uninhibited performance while the actor later stated that this scene is so real that it influenced the breakup with his girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.