Was that Halle Berry in the sex scene in Monster's Ball or her double?
Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton agreed to shoot a fiery scene in the movie Monster’s Ball. At first it was said that the two actors would use doubles but record the scene, but the end result said the opposite. Years later, Halle Berry would reveal how intense and somewhat uncomfortable the scene was precisely because there was nothing fictional about it.
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 going to do 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 Best Actress Oscar for her uninhibited performance while the actor later stated that this scene is so real that it influenced his breakup with his girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.
