Halle Berry Addresses Exiting Ryan Murphy's New Legal Drama with Kim Kardashian: 'Things Happen for a Reason'

Mar. 15, 2025

From L: Kim Kardashian; Halle Berry; Ryan Murphy.Photo:Joy Malone/Getty; Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock; Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

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Sometimes, projects don’t pan out the way one might expect — and that’s okay withHalle Berry.

Last month,Entertainment Weeklyreported that the actress had exited aRyan Murphylegal drama titledAll’s Fair, which was also set to starKim KardashianandGlenn Close.

Berry, 57, addressed her departure in a conversation withEntertainment Tonighton Monday, Aug. 12, during the Los Angeles premiere of her new Netflix movieThe Union, saying, “You know, things happen for a reason.”

“I would’ve loved to have been there with those ladies, [and] I know it’s gonna be great,” theOscarwinner continued. “[It’s] Ryan Murphy! I mean, you know, duh. But next time!”

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Halle Berry in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 2024.Phillip Faraone/Getty

Phillip Faraone/Getty

For now, the actress is focused onThe Union, her latest role that sees her star oppositeMark Wahlbergas Roxanne, the high-school sweetheart of Wahlberg’s Mike who comes back into his life unexpectedly 25 years later and recruits him for a high-stakes job.

Berry told PEOPLE exclusively atthe premiere on Mondayof working with the “genuine” Wahlberg, 53, “He means what he says and he says what he means, and he’s a friend to an actor.”

“He’s a great collaborator,” theCatwomanstar continued. “He allowed me space to be me and bring what I needed to bring to it. But [we] have so much history — I’ve known him since the late ’80s.”

Berry also noted the “commonality” between herself and Wahlberg, explaining, “We had bothstarted with meager beginnings.”

“We know what that is to come from that, and we appreciate where we are at this stage in our life and that we still get to do it on this high level, and I think that’s what connects us,” she said. “That’s what binds us as people.”

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Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry in ‘The Union’.Laura Radford/Netflix

Laura Radford/Netflix

Berry told PEOPLE of her new action role, “I was a gymnast as a kid, so anytime I get to use my physicality in something and my athleticism, I love it.”

Added theBruisedactress and director, “I wanted to go to the Olympics as a kid, so now I missed that, but now I get to act out that childhood fantasy through film. I love it.”

Asked what advice she’d give her children — daughterNahla, 16, and sonMaceo-Robert, 10 — if they wanted to follow in her show-business footsteps, Berry said, “I would tell them, ‘Do it the way I did it.’ I had no nepotism. Nobody helped me. I had to learn from the ground up.”

“They would have to do it the same way,” she continued. “They would have to go pay their dues, learn a craft, work hard and make it on their own for themselves. And that way, it’s always theirs. Nobody takes it away. That’s what they would have to do.”

The Unionis streaming Friday, Aug. 16, on Netflix.

source: people.com