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Article: Halle Barry: strictly business about show business.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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THE cameras hadn't started recording her scene, but everyone on the set of the hit film, Jungle Fever, knew the obvious about Halle Berry. The former beauty queen was a wreck, emotionally and physically.
It wasn't that she hadn't prepared for the role. Quite the opposite. She was more than ready to play the part of a crackhead. Having interviewed more than 80 recovering cocaine addicts, Berry decided to "get into character" by going without a bath for 10 days.
The role was quite a stretch. "It's the best thing that has happened to my career," she says. "When people realize that I played that role, they look at me differently now. They just don't ...