If we can buy Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock as an astronaut, then we can surely buy Oscar-winner Halle Berry as an astronaut.
But Bullock did her space walk with the dignity of cinema. Berry makes her first serious commitment to sci-fi on television – which snobs might see as slumming, especially when they learn Berry’s astronaut has an alien in her belly.
Berry does not agree she is taking a step down by signing on for the series.
”I’m always on the lookout for amasing roles, and when you see material that contains this strong [combination] of auspices, nuance and complexity, it compels me to run toward it, no matter the medium,” she said.
”For five months a year, I’ll get to live with and play this incredibly intelligent and vulnerable woman. And for the remainder of the year, I’ll continue to look for other roles that move me as deeply as this one.”
One reason she switched platforms was the involvement of Steven Spielberg as producer, who told her she would play a character ”whose experiences lead to events that ultimately change the course of human history”.
Spielberg told the media: ”There’s only one Halle Berry and we are incredibly honoured that she has chosen
