Halle Berry asks the influence of being the first and only a black woman to win an Oscar for the best actress: “Is it important?”

The next season of the prizes ends, and Halle Berry, who became the first black woman who won the academy award for the best actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball”, remained the only black woman who won the coveted prize.

Reflection on her historical win in the recent Apple TV document “Number One On the Call Archie”, a 58-year-old actress still questions this heritage.

“It forced me to ask myself, did it matter?” Reflected. “Has this really changed for colorful women? For my sisters? For our journey?”

Leading to the 97th Oscars, which took place on March 2, Berry opened a podcast about how she was “tired” of being the only one. This 12 months, Cynthia Erivo was nominated for the second time for the best actress for her performance Elphab in “Wicked”. However, Mikey Madison received the award for her role in “Anor”.

In the documentary film, Berry notes that in 2021 she also thought that the probabilities that the list was finally growing was good.

“A few years ago I was at a table with Andra Day and I was on the other side of the room from Viola Davis and they were both nominated for star performances (the day” United States vs. Billie Holiday “and Davis with” Black Black “Ma Rainey”) and I felt 100% certain Adding: “On the other hand, they’re of them, which of them were certain that actually.

Ultimately, Frances McDormand won its third Oscar for “Nomadland”.

“The system is not really designed for us, so we must stop desirable what is not for us,” Berry explained. “Because at the end of the day it is” how can we touch the lives of people? “And it is essentially what art is for. “

In the film, other black actresses Taraji P. Henson and Whoopi Goldberg also participate in the lack of black Oscar winners “The best actress”.

“I don’t think the industry really perceives us as potential customers, you know?” Henson said, who won the Oscar for the best supporting actress in 2009 for “Benjamin Button”. She added: “They give us support (actress awards), as if they were giving out candy cane. It just – I don’t know what to do about it. Because what are you talking to me?”

Goldberg, who can also be one of 10 black women who won the Oscar for the best supporting actress, query the message of the lack of black winners.

“Wait a moment, none of us was good enough?” She asked. “Nobody in all these people nobody? … What is missing here? This is the conversation of people every year.”