Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Monster’s Ball”

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The Little Boy

Little Tyrell Musgrove had a hell of a life. In addition to losing his father to the penal system, he struggled with his weight and then eventually was struck and killed by a car. But it wasn’t just his fictional character that was dealing with some challenges. In real life, Coronji Calhoun told Halle Berry that his life wasn’t exactly peaches and cream either. Berry recalled the incident in an interview:

“Marc (the director) and I were talking to him, saying this is just a movie, and I kept saying, everything I do and say, it’s not real. I really think you’re wonderful. And he said, ‘Well, whatever you do to me, Halle Berry, it isn’t going to be worse than what the kids at school do to me.'”

Years after the movie was released, Calhoun was listed as one of the missing children lost during Hurricane Katrina.

But he is very much alive, has an account on Facebook and a son. Here’s what he looks like today.

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