FASHION JUNQUI: HALLE BERRY for T MAGAZINE

Salvatore Ferragamo jacket. Isabel Marant shirt. Hermès belt. Guess jeans. Janis by Janis Savitt accessories.

Halle Berry was recently featured in T magazine (The younger/modern/stylish/more fun sibling  of The New York Times, IMO) and she touched on different topics. From the custody tug-of-war with Gabriel Aubry and her new engagement to Olivier Martinez; her newest film Cloud Atlas,and how breaking her foot during filming was just a “bump in the road”; dealing with the paparazzi and the effect it might be having on her daughter, Nahla.

Lanvin jacket and necklaces. Isabel Marant shirt. J. Brand jeans. Max Mara hat.

“They’re outside my house every morning,” she says. We’re speaking of the paparazzi, of course. Even here in L.A. — a town not short on movie stars — Halle Berry gets special attention from the press. Not the good kind.

“I get it about the celebrity stuff,” she tells me softly, sliding into her seat. “It’s part of my job to recognize that there’s a certain part of my life the public wants to hear about. But it’s not O.K. that they’re doing terrible things to my daughter. One night, after they chased us, it took me two hours just to get her calmed down enough to get to sleep.”

Versace jacket and shirt. Hudson jeans.

In “Cloud Atlas,” the range of characters Berry portrays goes from the most humble to a woman of the future, Meronym, whom Berry describes as “the priestess of the world.” These characters are meant to represent aspects of the same soul, reincarnated over time in different bodies and at different stages of its evolution. If this is how a human soul evolves, I ask her, where has hers gotten to so far?

“I’ve been all those women,” she tells me. “Luisa Rey” — the crusading journalist reporting on the cover-up of an imminent nuclear disaster — “corresponds to who I was when I first started to make a living, the part of myself that was hopeful, the part that believed I could do anything. Meronym is that part of me I discovered after I had Nahla. I know more than my daughter does. And it’s my job to lead her through the world and find a safe place for her. Even though I know I’ve made mistakes, myself.”

Mugler jacket. Burberry Prorsum shirt. 7 For All Mankind jeans. Christian Louboutin shoes. Mawi bracelets and ring.

During the first week of filming “Cloud Atlas,” Berry broke her foot in Majorca. “She called it ‘a bump in the road,’ ” Hanks says. “But this was a severe break. In between takes, she had to be helped to her chair because she couldn’t stand up on her own.”

In an e-mail to me, Andy and Lana Wachowski wrote, “The first day after she got her cast off her foot she had to do a scene standing on a rock in the middle of a river.” Berry slipped on her broken foot, and the entire crew screamed with her — it was obviously terribly painful. Then, they recalled, “this fire just ignited in her eyes and she was suddenly Meronym again. The take was flawless. It’s the one in the film. She is one of the gutsiest actors we’ve ever worked with.”

Balmain jacket and shirt. Mawi necklace.

“I can’t grow my daughter in L.A.,” she tells me. “You take a little child who is just trying to learn about the world and have all these people with cameras chasing after her, calling things out to her about her mother. It’s starting to make her feel special and different. I want her to feel special and different, but not for the reason of being my child.”

Chanel jacket. Graff necklace and rings.

“I always had to prove myself through my actions,” she says. “Be a cheerleader.  Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. It gave me a way to show who I was without being angry or violent. By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity. I’d turned things around.” When she was 16, her mother stood with her in front of a mirror and asked what she saw. “My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me,” Berry says. “Bloodlines didn’t matter as much as how I would be perceived…”

//Photos and quotes from T Magazine//

October 21, 2012 | Categories: FASHION JUNQUI | Tags: cloud atlas, deva, devastyle, halle berry, t magazine | Leave A Comment »