Halle Berry Didn't Shower For Eight Weeks

Halle Berry didn't shower for eight
weeks while making Jungle Fever.
The 47-year-old actress made her acting debut
alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the 1991 film in
which she played a crack-cocaine addict and
she's confessed that as she wasn't willing to
experiment with the drug in preparation, she
instead embraced her character by remaining
unwashed throughout production.
Quizzed about the role, she said: "I didn't smoke
crack. I drew the line there but it was 23 years
ago so I was brand spanking new and at that
time all I could really do was kind of try to be it,
to be it so I didn't shower for the whole entire
time that we shot that movie, so that was
probably about eight weeks.
"It was gnarly, it was gnarly. Certain body parts
got washed, let's just say that."
Ten years later Berry won the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her performance in Monster Ball
and she's revealed she keeps the prize in her
bedroom where no one else can see it.
Speaking about where she keeps the Oscar in the
home she shares with husband and fellow actor
Olivier Martinez, she told Live! with Kelly and
Michael: "I keep him in my bedroom so nobody
ever sees him. He's very protected in my room all
tucked away and tidy ... In my house we don't
have a lot of that kind of stuff out anywhere.
"You would walk in our home and not know that
actors live there and so it's some place that's
private. It's just for me. It reminds me sometimes
of the accomplishment so it's really more for me