Catwoman gets herself a cool cat
There’s a new love in Halle Berry’s life, and yes, it’s one of those Hollywood romances between co-stars. The two met on the set of her latest movie, Catwoman.
Berry describes her new guy as plump and pliable, with a bushy mane of orange hair. He’s a cool cat she calls Play-doh.
Berry says she never cared much for cats before she met him.
“I used to be a dog person. I had dogs my whole life. And in making this movie, I learned to really respect and love cats from the research and work I did with them,” Berry said in an interview in Los Angeles to promote Catwoman.
That research involved taking home one of the roughly 60 cats the producers rescued from shelters to use in the movie.
Berry thought it was a temporary fling, a relationship of professional convenience. She would keep the tabby around only long enough to help hone her own feline mystique and capture the cat’s movements and demeanour.
“I studied him very much thinking, I’m going to study him and give him back, but I fell so in love in like, one week, that I’m now a cat person,” Berry said. “I couldn’t imagine my life without him.…
“I always thought they were majestic and beautiful and sexy and sleek. Mysterious. But I’ve always lived with people who had allergies to cats, so I never could entertain the idea of getting one, because I would have been living alone. And now that I do live alone, it’s a great time to get a cat.”
Berry, who turns 36 next month, split last fall from singer Eric Benet, her husband of three years. Of her pending divorce, Berry said, “It’s in the process,” declining to say more.
Catwoman opens across the United States today.
