Time to dispel the rumor and correct the urban legend that has been going on for years that said Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton did actually have sex in one scene while filming the 2001 romantic drama "Monster’s Ball."
The now 58-year-old actress appeared on Dax Shepard’s "Armchair Expert" podcast recently and vehemently denied the allegations.
"We had this very explicit love scene," said Berry, whose performance led to her being the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
"There’s an urban legend that we really were f–king. I've heard it, and it’s just not true," she went on. "It’s secretly driven me mad all these years."
In "Monster’s Ball," Berry plays grieving widow Leticia Musgrove, who strikes up a romance with corrections officer Hank Grotowski (Thornton). Unbeknownst to them, Hank assisted in executing the man Leticia was married to.
Leticia and Hank connect over their traumas. They go out to dinner and then get drunk at Leticia’s house which leads to them having sex. The raunchy scene is one of the most memorable parts of the film.
On the podcast, Berry complained that her and Thornton’s explicit sex scene caused them to be romantically linked in real life.
Thornton has also spoken out about the rumor that he and Berry did it.
"No we’re actors. We do the job that we’re required to do, and we were both very professional about it," he said on "Sway in the Morning" in 2012, when asked to "dispel the myth" about himself and Berry’s sex scene being real.
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