Hello, beautiful Halle Berry.
How are you?
I'm fantastic.
How are you?
You look fantastic.
I'm great.
Thank you for asking.
I saw you at the People's Choice Awards.
I was very happy to see you.
I went over and grabbed you and assaulted you, telling you
how much I love you.
I love being assaulted by Ellen.
Yeah, and you had on a sequined beautiful jumpsuit.
I would think that would be hard to sit down in and stuff.
Yeah, but you know what it had?
It reminded me of my baby years.
It had a zipper across the butt.
So you could pull that little zipper down and then
sit on the pot.
Wow.
TMI, I'm sure, but yeah.
No, but that's for jumpsuits because that's the whole thing.
You have to take the entire thing off
when you have to run to the restroom.
There's a zipper on your butt?
In the back, yeah.
On the bum there's a zipper.
You know how babies have on their little underwear pajamas?
I've seen pictures of babies, yeah.
That had a baby bump zipper on it.
Wow, that's very clever.
And did you-- was it obvious that it was a zipper
or did it make it look like it was some part of a design?
No, it was obviously a zipper.
So someone, if they wanted to, could just run up behind you
and unzip your butt.
Why did my son do that before I left the house?
Yeah, did he?
He did.
Oh, how old is your son?
He's eight.
Uh-huh, oh, you'd want to do that.
If you're a kid and you see a zipper on someone's but,
you'd unzip it.
Yeah, he saw more than an 8-year-old needed to see.
Yeah, well.
He was like, oh, oh, put that away.
I said you, took it out.
He goes, put it up.
I said, OK.
You took it out.
It comes out?
The butt comes out of the zipper if you come up but--
So as soon as you unzip it, the whole butt comes out?
Basically.
You've got a nice big butt.
How is your son doing?
He's fantastic.
What's he into?
Cursing.
Oh.
You know how kids go through this thing.
And you guys have kids, some of you, right?
They find curse words and then he's on a tear right now.
And I said to his pediatrician, is this a problem?
He won't stop cursing.
And he said, no, let them curse it up.
Let him curse it up.
Have no reaction and just let him curse it up.
So he is cursing it up.
It started this year when he was eight?
It started this year, yes.
It started in COVID.
Well, a lot of us started cursing in COVID.
But does he have one word in particular
or does he use all of them?
No, he's got one.
But I know I can't say it on the show, so I won't.
Yeah, you can.
You can?
Yeah.
He likes to say--
we read stories, right?
So he's got this one story about the fox and the rabbit.
And he'll say, [BLEEP] the fox.
[BLEEP] the rabbit.
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And I'm like, what?
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I'm like, wow, where did that come from?
[BLEEP] the fox.
[BLEEP] the rabbit.
[BLEEP] them all.
OK.
Wow, what did they do to him?
Exactly, he just likes the reaction, I guess,
when he says these words.
Well, it does sound, kind of, it rolls off the tongue really
when you think about it.
[BLEEP] the rat.
[BLEEP] the fox.
[BLEEP] the rabbit.
Now I want to say that.
My first curse word I learned was [BLEEP],, now
that we're going to curse the whole time.
But I didn't know how to use it and I was trying
to put my bike through a gate.
And I went, how do we get the [BLEEP] bike in?
I was like, it's not how you use it.
It was wrong.
So I didn't curse after that.
Your boyfriend, we had him on, because I'm a huge music fan.
I had him on in Season 1 before we had on.
We've talked about this.
Oh really?
Yes.
And actually, a few days ago, when I knew I was coming here
and then I said, you know, I was on her first season.
He goes, so was I. And I said, you
mean you could have found me 20 years ago,
and saved me all this misery I've been through?
Isn't that amazing?
How come you didn't arrange that, Ellen?
You should have been on the same show.
No.
I think you were on two months later or something.
You would have saved me three marriages.
Well--
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, but then you wouldn't have the little [BLEEP] kid.
[LAUGHTER]
Now I have two other [BLEEP] kids
that I wouldn't have to share two [BLEEP] daddies with,
and I'm just [BLEEP] up here.
[LAUGHTER]
So it's your fault. It's your [BLEEP] fault, Ellen.
Oh, man, I am [BLEEP] sorry.
[LAUGHTER]
This is how I go out my last three months, just cursing.
Let's talk about the movie.
Let's talk about Moonfall.
It's a disastrous film.
It is.
There's lots going on.
And what's cool about it is your part
was supposed to be for a guy and you got it, which is so cool.
It is cool.
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Especially for the head of NASA to be a Black woman,
I thought, OK, we're really trying in Hollywood.
Yeah, tell everybody what it's about, because it's great
and you're constantly breaking ground.
So I just wanted to point that out because it's cool.
Yeah, thank you.
But tell everyone.
I play the head of NASA, and I used to be an astronaut
but now I'm the head of NASA.
And so my old colleague, my old flying buddy,
played by Patrick Wilson, he comes to me
and he says we got a problem.
The moon is off its axis and it's about to crash into Earth.
And so we have to suit back up again and go up there and stop
the moon from crashing.
Yep, and big job.
All right, we have to take a break.
But when we come back, we're going
to talk about your other movie that I accosted you about,
Bruised, which is so fantastic.
We'll be back.
More with Halle Berry.
That's Halle Berry.
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That is her movie Bruised, and you directed this.
This was your first time directing?
Yes.
What a thing to take on.
I know.
It's unbelievable.
Thank you.
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The physicality alone that you're boxing,
that you had to train to get into that shape
and then you had to direct, you had
to do pre and post and everything.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
It was like the dumbest thing to tell somebody
you wanted to do at the time.
Yeah, but you did it, and you pulled it off,
and it's beautiful.
And your performance was amazing.
And how long did you train to get into that kind of shape?
2 and 1/2 years, I started before.
I had-- to play a world class athlete, you can't just say,
OK, I'm going to do this and make it believable.
So I had to train jujitsu, taekwondo, Muay Thai boxing,
kickboxing, wrestling, like all of it.
And I used all bits of those different disciplines
throughout the course of the movie, and it was a joy.
It's one of the greatest things I've done.
Is that the woman that's the actual, she's really a fighter?
She is Valentina Shevchenko, the current Flyweight UFC
champion of the world, yes.
And she is a monster.
And--
Yeah,
How-- and you--
Look at her.
Yeah, and you hurt yourself, right?
What happened to you?
Well, she hurt me.
[LAUGHTER]
And if she hurt you, what did she do?
Well, two days-- we started with our big fight
because we were all trained up.
We were ready to go.
So we had four days at the beginning of the shoot
to shoot our fight.
Day two, the start of day two, she kicked me for real
and broke two of my ribs.
So I had to then do the rest of that day and two more days
in the fight with broken ribs and then do
the rest of the whole shoot with broken ribs.
Oh my god, that's horrible.
So it was a lot of short breaths.
Yeah, how did you do fight scenes with--
I mean, anything, but fight scenes with broken ribs
and she must have felt so bad.
No.
[LAUGHTER]
Only because she kept saying, no, Halle, it's not broken.
It's not.
You wouldn't be breathing.
You wouldn't be-- no, it's not broken.
I said, it's broken.
No, it's not.
It's not.
So she didn't feel bad because she didn't really believe it.
And I didn't go get an X-ray until the fight was over
because I knew they would shut me
down if they knew that I could puncture a lung, right?
So she didn't feel bad because she thought, oh, it's
just a muscle.
It's going to be fine.
This happens to me all the time, so she
didn't feel bad in the moment.
Wow.
No.
It is so good.
If you haven't seen it, Bruised is streaming now.
It's on Netflix.
And Moonfall opens in theaters and IMAX tomorrow.
And we're going to play Burning Questions with Halle
after this.
We'll be back with.
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