-Halle Berry, it's so great to see you.
Thank you so much for doing our show,
"Tonight Show: At-Home Edition."
This means a lot to a lot of people, so thank you,
thank you, thank you so much. -Thank you for having me.
I love that you're doing this, you know, in this time, Jimmy,
because it's keeping people --
you know, it's keeping their spirits up, too.
And it's giving us entertainment and giving us a chance to laugh
'cause sometimes -- It's getting a little heavy for people.
-Yeah, it is. How are you hanging in there?
Who are you quarantined with?
-I'm quarantined with my two children, my two dogs.
And it's tight on us sometimes.
My daughter's fine. She hopes quarantine never ends.
She loves not going to school.
She's a loner.
She loves, being, you know, nestled in.
My son who's 6 is like a madman right now.
He's bouncing off the walls.
He just doesn't know what's happening.
It's really hard for him.
-Oh, see, I don't know that, because all I have is two girls.
So they're just both -- Like, they sit there and they're --
They, like -- You know, they love school.
They think it's, you know, it's a part of their thing.
They love it. Well, the one --
The littler one doesn't like as much.
She's only in like kindergarten.
She wants to run around and do stuff.
-Yeah, well, you're a girl dad. So --
I'm a boy mom.
[ Both laugh ]
We almost needed a few trips to the hospital.
But it's like, "We ain't going to the hospital!"
-[ Laughs ] "No one's going." Tell him --
-Myself.
We're not going to the hospital.
-You told me that you had one thing happen with your daughter.
What happened with her -- It involved her hair.
-Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. [ Laughs ]
-Tell me this story.
-So, you know, we are swimming every day.
Like, we're so fortunate that we do have a pool.
And I'm grateful these times that we do have a pool.
So, it is one of the only ways we get our exercise.
And we have to get exercise, right?
So, we stopped our hikes and all the nature walks we did.
So we swim every day. So every day, we're swimming.
We get out of the pool. And my daughter's 12.
And so every time I go to comb her hair,
she's like, "No, don't touch me. I can handle it. I'm a tween.
I don't need you to brush my hair."
So, I'm like, "Cool, I won't touch your hair."
So two nights ago, we're doing homework together.
And she says, "Mom,
don't be mad at me." -Daddy?
-"But, like, um --" -I need you to --
-Oh, who's that? -Here, Winnie, come on.
You can go -- Say "hi."
-Hi. -Hi!
-This is Winnie.
-Hi, Winnie. -Hi.
-How are you?
We almost have on the same kind of dress, Winnie.
Look. -[ Gasps ]
-We almost have on the same fashion.
-You've got the same type of dress.
-How cool is that?
-That is blue.
-What? -That one's blue, though.
-Hers is blue, I know. But yours has blue in it, too.
-Mine has purple, too.
Mine has more purple.
-It does. But it's same idea, Winnie.
-[ Chuckles ]
Okay, sorry about that.
That's going to happen. -Winnie's on"At-Home" fashion.
-That's going to happen. It's been happening --
It happens all the time. -Let it happen.
Let it happen. -She just walks right in
in the middle of the thing. And, yeah, that's the way it works.
But I want to tell her the story so she knows.
So you're -- When she becomes 12.
-Yes, Winnie, don't let this happen.
So, jump to we're doing her homework the other night.
And she goes, "Mom, I'm scared to tell you this.
But, like, touch the back of my head."
All her hair, which is, like, past her shoulders,
has shrunken up into a tight ball
that feels like matted fur.
Like, I can't even get my finger in it.
And I'm pulling, and it's like --
And she's screaming. So I said, "Honey, oh, God, oh, God."
And I'm trying to stay calm.
Like, "Okay, this is cool.
Let's go in the shower, put some conditioner on it.
And, just -- This is going to be cool."
Get in the shower. 30 minutes later,
it's getting tighter.
-Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no.
What do you --
Don't even tell me. What -- -I had to shave it off.
I had to give it a -- -You did not.
No! Just shaved it off?
Was she cool with that? -I had to shave it off.
She was not cool with that.
But it was our only option.
It was the only option. -Oh, my gosh.
-But now, like, she gets it.
I was like, "First of all, maybe you'll let your mother help you.
And second of all, you've learned
you got to brush your hair, dawg, like, every day.
You got to brush your hair." -Yeah.
-And she's like, "We're in quarantine.
We're not going anywhere.
So why did I have to brush my hair?"
I said, "This is why you have to brush your hair,
so you don't have a big ball." -Hi, again!
-Hi, Winnie.
Did you just hear that story?
-This why you have to brush your hair, Win.
Because, guess what? Her daughter didn't brush her hair.
And she got a big knot in the back of her hair.
And then, guess what she did.
She can tell you. -What?
-I had to shave her hair off.
Yeah. She's bald in the back.
[ Laughs ]
-We'd shave it all off.
So, see, listen to Mommy and Daddy, okay?
-Okay.
-Always brush your hair, Winnie.
-She's learning lessons from you.
That you for teaching my daughter.
I appreciate it.
Hey, you know, I saw your name a couple times.
You were in D-Nice's Club Quarantine.
-Oh, my God. I love it.
I love it. -How great is that thing?
-It's so amazing.
Like, that dude is saving lives, too.
Like, it's just -- And you know what's so weird about it?
It feels like it's real.
Right? It feels like I'm really in a club
with some people that I know but I don't know.
And I imagine what everybody looks like.
And it's like a good -- It's a good vibe.
And I'm also teaching my kids about old-school music,
because it -- He plays the stuff I grew up on.
They don't know nothing about that.
-I know. -So I get to, like,
you know, introduce them to the music that I love.
So it's been really fun for us.
-How did you hear about it?
-One of my managers told me about it.
They're like, "Do -- Have you heard of what D-Nice is doing?"
I said, "No." So she sent me there, like day two.
And I've been, like, just trying to make time in my schedule
to go there as much as I can. I mean, I'm a mom, so, you know,
I don't have much time to be clubbin' as others do.
But I try to get there whenever I can.
-Well, people were calling you
the First Lady of Club Quarantine,
'cause anytime you came on, everyone went nuts.
They're, like, "Oh, my God! Halle Berry's in here!
Halle Berry's in here!" It was, like, crazy.
I love it, because it is kind of exciting
'cause you're listening to music, too, at home and doing --
And then if you see a name pop up,
or he'll give you a shout-out, it just makes everyone go,
like, "Oh, we're all in this together, man."
-I know. Like, Mariah Carey came in the other night.
And I fanned out. I was like, "Oh, my God --"
[ Both laugh ]
-It's fun. It's good.
Before the virus hit,
you were working on your directorial debut
for a movie called "Bruised," which sounds great.
Do we know when it's going to come out, or not yet?
-Well, it was supposed to come out,
you know, in the fall this year.
But now with everything that's happening,
I think most production are sort of in flux right now.
The good thing is at least we finished it pretty much.
So we have it kind of in the can.
But when it will actually come out,
I don't know when we're going to be back to the movies
and when we will -- you know, life will get back to normal.
But I did it. -I know. I hope it's soon.
You definitely did it. What -- It's called "Bruised."
And what made you choose this movie?
Or as you told me, the movie kind of chose you.
-Yeah, it did.
It's a movie about a sort of a disgraced MMA fighter
sort of in the middle towards probably the end of her career.
And it's sort of the journey she goes through to get her son back
that she left when he was very young
and then get her sense of self and her career back.
And it's a movie that got sat down on my lap three years ago.
And it just -- It just --
It's one of those stories that just -- It just gripped me.
I understood the depth of this woman's pain.
I understood what she was fighting for.
It's very redemptive.
And I got to rewrite the movie
and set it in a world that I understood for a woman my age.
It was really -- originally written
for a 21-year-old white Irish-Catholic girl
in her early 20s. And so I got to re-imagine it
for someone like me, which was really fun, and --
-That's great. -I set out to find a director.
And no director I talked to really got it how I got it.
So I ended up being called upon to be the director,
which I never would in my wildest dreams
thought I'm going to direct myself.
-Sometimes you got to do it, right? You got to do it!
-You just got to --
When the universe calls, man, you got to answer, you know?
-You got to just try and go, "I don't know what this is,
but we're trying, man. Let's do it."
-That's about it. -But you're a tough cookie, man.
Last time we talked was for "John Wick 3,"
which you were amazing in. And people freaked out.
And you're awesome.
Really, it was sick.
And I think we were talking about
I think you broke like three ribs doing that,
if I'm not mistaken?
How about this movie? I mean, MMA fighting --
You can't really fake this fighting, right?
-No. So, you know, I broke some stuff
[Laughs] on this one.
And you know what? It's okay. I always get hurt.
But I realize that when you go hard, you're bound to get hurt.
You know? When you do your own stunts,
you're bound to get hurt.
And in this movie, I was fighting
the real UFC flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko.
And you know what?
She had to throw some real kicks,
and I had to really take them.
And that really broke some bones.
[ Laughs ] -Oh, my gosh!
-I mean, she's a beast.
-She really is. -But I couldn't have asked
for a better teacher, a better scene mate,
a better fight partner.
Like, she just brought so much reality to it for me.
At times, I felt like I was really fighting.
Like, our referee
that was in the movie is a real referee.
And he said a couple times, he says,
"Man, I thought I was watching a real fight,"
because she just brought so much power and authenticity
to our fight scenes,
so, you know, it's par for the course.
-Was there ever a time in any of the movies you've done
where you did a fight scene, and it was embarrassing,
or something -- some action scene
you were like, "Ugh, that was so bad."
-Not an action scene, but one time
I was doing a scene with Pierce Brosnan in "Die Another Day."
and -- -Yes!
-[ Laughs ] I was supposed to -- -Of course!
-I was supposed to be all sexy
and, like, trying to seduce him with a fig.
And then I end up choking on it. [ Both laugh ]
And then he had to get up and, like, do the Heimlich.
[ Laughs ] -No!
-So not sexy. Like, so not sexy.
[ Both laugh ] -He did the Heimlich?
Yeah, you'd never see that in a James Bond movie, right?
-You should have seen it.
Like, James Bond knows how to Heimlich.
Like, he was there for me.
He will always be
one of my favorite people in the whole world.
-Oh, cheers.