Halle Berry Is NO Sell-Out!

Academy Award-winning dramatic actress and all-around classy lady, Halle Berry, is stirring up headlines with the news that she’ll be joining Demi Moore, Natalie Portman and suicidal Robin Tunney from Empire Records (shock me shock me shock me with your deviant behavior) in the ranks of hot bald chicks on film, when she shaves her head for her upcoming movie, the maturely-titled “Nappily Ever After” (of which I’m sure Don Imus will be a fan). Not entirely sure why this is news, but apparently Halle thinks so.

She tells U.S. magazine Essence:

I’m shaving it off! I know. Here comes the controversy, but… it’ll grow back – I hope!

Controversy? Over her hair? She realizes that she’s head a short haircut for more than half her career, right? And then she was basically bald in Die Another Day? And that nobody cares?

This, actually, isn’t the point. Halle’s hair length, as we’ve decided, is irrelevant. What IS relevant is her reason for taking the part that requires the shave. The decision was apparently spurred by her young daughter Nahla (whom I still wish had been named “Boison”). From her own mouth:

I don’t want my daughter to look back at my work and think, ‘Mom sold out.’ I want to leave a legacy that she can be proud of.

Right. Well. I mean, there’s no chance of that. Halle’s ouevre is for definite solid. A body of work any performer could be proud of; an Imdb page even Laurence Olivier would admire. A true master class legacy.

Yep, no need for Halle to worry about her daughter thinking she’s a sell-out. So long as when Nahla grows up, the Google is broken, of course.

Bangarang!