Multi-award-winning actress Halle Berry reveals how she could have died during the filming of the 2002 James Bond movie, Die Another Day. The 53-year-old actress shared a mistake that could have cost her her life on set.
The actress recalls that she owes her life to 66-year-old life Pierce Brosnan who came to her aid during a sex scene. In a chat with TV show host Jimmy Fallon, Berry revealed that the James Bond actor had to give her the Heimlich Manoeuvre as she choked on a fig.
Berry said:
“I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig, and then I end up choking on it and he had to get up and do the Heimlich. James Bond knows how to Heimlich!”
So like the title, Berry gets to Die Another Day and hurt herself again in another action film, John Wick. She said about Brosnan, “He was there for me. He will always be one of my favourite people in the whole world.”
Halle was portraying Jinx, Bond’s fellow sleuth. She was also his love interest, who famously battles it out with Rosamund Pike in the film.
Veteran Bond producer Barbara Broccoli recently revealed that Jinx was such a hit with fans; so much so that the studio had planned a spinoff film with Halle in the lead.
She described to Variety being “incensed” over reluctance to grant the idea an £80 million. Barbara went on to confront the question of bringing Bond’s attitudes toward women into the modern-day.
“Bond’s been evolving along with all the other men in the world,” she reckoned. “Some men have just gotten there more quickly than others.”
The next James Bond movie is No Time To Die, featuring Daniel Craig as 007 for the last time. The movie was scheduled to premiere in April before being delayed to November due to COVID-19.