Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Monster’s Ball”
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How did Eric Benet react to it?
Even though Berry had made peace with the scene, she still had to run it past her husband, at the time, Eric Benet. Berry arranged for the film to be screened privately at her home. This is how she said Benet took it.
“I didn’t want him to see it on premiere night and have some reporter and go, So.. (laughs) It’s hard for any man to see his wife like that but he read the script and said, ‘Oh, you’ve got to do this. He didn’t think about the love scene then because the love scene was just words on paper. When he saw it it was a different deal. But at the end of it he was able to say, ‘I’m really proud of you. You took a risk’. It was tough, but not tougher than when I had to abuse my over weight son. No tougher than that. That was probably tougher than the love scene.”
