Academy Award winnerHalle Berrywill team up with fellow Academy Award winnerAngelina Joliein the upcoming action flick,Maude v Maude. And Berry has now offered some insight into the movie and the “rocky” beginnings of the relationship between herself and Jolie. Speaking withVariety, Berry callsMaude v Maudea “mixture ofMr & Mrs SmithandMission: Impossible,” with added comedy. But, while Berry was looking forward to trading blows on-screen with Jolie both “physically and intellectually,” she reveals their relationship got off to a “rocky start.”
“We had a rocky start and I think that is going to serve us well in our screen time together. [I am] thrilled to work with another woman and craft a story with our sensibility and from our point of view. She is formidable.”
When pressed for more information about what made things so rocky at first, Berry said she would reveal more at a later date, adding that the story is a “good one.”
“We’ve been talking a lot about divorces and exes. We bonded, let’s say that.”
Hollywood icons Halle Berry andAngelina Joliewill join forces for the first time in the upcoming action flickMaude v Maude. As per an earlier report byDeadline,Maude v Maudehas been given the tantalizing description of being a “Bond vs. Bourne” style global action thriller. Which sounds like not only the perfect vehicle for the two actresses to once again demonstrate their particular set of skills, but also every action movie fans dream.
Following what has been called an “aggressive” bidding war between studios for the project, Warner Bros. Pictures has emerged victorious and will now distributeMaude v Maude. The action outing comes as part of co-studio heads, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, and their plan to push for movie star-centric projects. An action movie led by Halle Berry andAngelina Jolie certainly fits those parameters.
Filmmaker Roseanne Liang, who is best known for the likes of the action horror outingShadow in the Cloud, the miniseriesUnboxed, and the upcoming live-action adaptation ofAvatar: The Last Airbender, is on board to helmMaude v Maude. Both Berry and Jolie are on board to produce the project along with Berry’s producing partner Holly Jeter via their banner HalleHolly.
Further details forMaude v Maudeare being kept under wraps, but the description of the movie being “Bond vs. Bourne” offers some insight into what audiences can expect. Clearly,Maude v Maudewill pit Berry and Jolie against each other, with one perhaps playing a suave, well-resourced spy while the other portrays a less refined, street level assassin. In any case, the idea of Berry and Jolie together at last is more than exciting enough for now.
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Halle Berry & Angelina Jolie Are No Strangers to the Action Movie Genre
While this may be the first time that Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie have appeared on-screen together,Maude v Maudewill be far from the first time that Berry and Jolie have thrown themselves into the action movie genre.
Berry is well-known for starring as Ororo Munroe aka Stormthroughout theX-Menfranchise, as well as being part of theJames Bondfranchise in 2002’sDie Another Day. More recently, Berry joined Keanu Reeves unstoppable assassin John Wick in 2019’sJohn Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which sees Berry starring as ex-assassin Sofia Al-Azwar, a former friend of Wick’s, and the manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca. Oh, yeah, and there’sCatwoman…
Angelina Jolie, meanwhile, was transformed into the video game icon Lara Croft for not one but twoTomb Raideroutings back in the early noughties. Since then, Jolie has fired many a bullet and thrown many a punch in the likes of the action thrillerSalt, the action comedyMr. & Mrs. Smith,in which she starred alongside Brad Pitt, and the comic book adaptations,Wanted, in which she plays Fox, an expert assassin, and the MCU outing,Eternals.
Maude v Maudewill no doubt now be heading towards the top of many an action movie fans' “must-watch” list.
