The phrase turnabout is fair play came to life on the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday, when Halle Berry locked eyes on Adrien Brody while
The phrase turnabout is fair play came to life on the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday, when Halle Berry locked eyes on Adrien Brody while he was in the midst of an interview—and then stalked forward to lock lips with him.
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Berry threw her arms open, and ran over to Brody and gave him a hug, according to an eyewitness account from Vanity Fair‘s Rebecca Ford. This was a historical moment more than two decades in the making—an obvious callback to when the Monster’s Ball best-actress winner presented the lead actor Oscar to Brody for The Pianist.
As he walked onstage at the 2004 ceremony, an overjoyed Brody threw his arms around Berry and dipped her into a Gone With the Wind-style kiss, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara by way of Bugs Bunny. In the moment, Berry laughed and appeared to gasp for air, but in the years since some have frowned on Brody’s actions as inappropriate and nonconsensual.
Berry herself has said she was taken aback but has never accused Brody of any kind of wrongdoing. “That was not planned. I knew nothing about it,” she said in 2017. “Can I say it for real? I was like, ‘What the fuck is happening right now?’ That is what was going through my mind. And because I was there the year before and I know the feeling of being out of your body, I just fucking went with it. But I was like, ‘What the fuck is going on right now?’”
On Sunday afternoon, Brody was moving inside the theater for the 97th annual Academy Awards, where he is nominated again for The Brutalist. Berry got her revenge—and seemingly puts to rest any rumors that she had tough feelings about the moment from 2004.
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After Berry kissed Brody, they both laughed, and Berry also gave Brody’s partner Georgina Chapman a kiss on the cheek.
The fundamental things apply, as the senior Hollywood song goes: A kiss is just a kiss.
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