Halle Berry Hits Red Carpet in Sheer Dress at ‘The Union’ Premiere

“As a result of I can, goddamn.”

So mentioned Halle Berry final evening when requested by The Hollywood Reporter why she chosen a sheer, lingerie-style La Perla creation final evening for the world premiere of Netflix‘s The Union. The Julian Farino-directed motion drama casts the 57-year-old Oscar winner as Roxanne, a member of a covert intelligence operation who recruits Mike, a down-to-earth development employee from New Jersey performed by Mark Wahlberg, to hitch a high-stakes mission. They occur to be highschool sweethearts, and that’s one more reason Berry braved the crimson carpet within the daring costume.

“I assumed with the theme of this film being lovers reuniting, it was time to convey this out,” she continued. “That is additionally the place I’m at in the present day.”

One other place Berry finds herself with The Union is starring reverse Wahlberg for the primary time of their respective careers following a friendship that has stretched previous 30 years. It is likely to be a shock however Berry mentioned there had by no means been a possibility for the 2 to come back collectively earlier than this undertaking. “By no means in any respect,” she mentioned. “When this occurred, I assumed, wow, that is the factor I didn’t know that I wanted. I’ve identified Mark eternally and a day and it was a joyous expertise. It was enjoyable. He’s such a collaborator. It was like going house in a method. We’ve a lot in frequent, and thru working collectively, we realized all these commonalities and we used them for the film and hopefully we put ’em on the display.”

The Union additionally stars Mike Colter, Jackie Earle Haley, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica De Gouw, Alice Lee, Dana Delany, Lorraine Bracco, Patch Darragh and J.Ok. Simmons. Wahlberg additionally produced alongside his longtime accomplice Stephen Levinson and Jeff Waxman.

Wahlberg has mentioned that he wished the movie to stability motion, humor, romance and witty banter present in movies starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, one thing Berry was on board with from the start. “I bought to do motion with humor, and there’s drama. Normally with a rom-com or a straight up motion film like John Wick, you miss all the additional stuff and with this film, it gave me a style of all the weather and I can’t keep in mind the final time I bought to do this in a film with somebody that I like.”

Berry has a busy half of 2024 coming. Her Alexandre Aja thriller By no means Let Go from Lionsgate simply moved up its launch date from Sept. 27 to Sept. 20. And she or he instructed THR final evening that she’s readying to star reverse Angelina Jolie in Maude v Maude “subsequent 12 months” whereas additionally prepping one other directorial outing to “come quickly,” which might observe her Netflix MMA drama Bruised.

As for Wahlberg, he had loads of good issues to say about Berry throughout his pre-premiere feedback from the stage at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre. After joking that his Union character is “the Jersey James Bond” with a nickname of “double go fuck your self,” he turned his consideration to his longtime buddy.

“The rationale why this film goes to be so profitable is due to the chemistry that we now have collectively and the expertise that she brings each single day,” Wahlberg instructed the viewers. “And she or he calls for that degree of dedication and laborious work from everyone. She delegates everyone and he or she actually units the tone. You’ll see why my character would wait 25 years sitting in his mother’s home, within the bar, in his neighborhood, working the identical job, hoping that someday she would come again.”

He continued: “No one else can pull that off however Halle Berry, so I can’t anticipate you guys to see this film. … While you meet Halle Berry in particular person, you understand she is essentially the most accessible, candy, variety, proficient, considerate, robust.”