Halle Berry, the first African-American woman to have won a Best Actress Oscar, thinks it’s “heartbreaking” that “another woman of color has not walked through that door.”
Berry won the prize in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball,” and recalled her acceptance speech almost 15 years later while echoing widespread concerns about diversity in Hollywood on Tuesday at the the Makers Conference in Los Angeles.
“Honestly, that win almost 15 years ago was iconic,” Berry said, according to The Guardian. “It was important to me, but I had the knowing in the moment that it was bigger than me.