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Halle Berry on aging, love life and her new psychological thriller: “I love the adrenaline rush”
Actor Halle Berry is opening up about her love life, advocating for women’s health and her new psychological thriller, “Never Let Go,” where her character believes the world has been taken over by a mysterious evil spirit.
“I love the adrenaline rush. I love being scared,” Berry said in an interview with “CBS Mornings.” “I love not knowing what’s going to happen, especially when it’s a psychological horror movie like this.”
She described the movie as complex, explaining both love and dysfunction are present in relationships. In the movie, Berry said her character’s young son starts to question if his mother is OK.
“What I love about this mother is, it’s a different version of a mother. She’s a darker version of herself, but this is a mother dealing with her own trauma that was passed on to her. It’s what many mothers do, many women do, doing the best you can.”
Berry joked the thriller isn’t just frightening for the movie-goers.
“We had a real live set, a house in the middle of nowhere and there were bears walking around. So in the daytime, this forest was the most beautiful, magical place, but as soon as the sun went down, and the bears came out, it really did turn into something scary,” she said.
Berry has starred in films like “Die Another Day,” “Catwoman,” The “X-Men” series and “Monster’s Ball,” which earned her an Academy Award.
Beyond the big screen, Berry is on a mission to inform and educate others about women’s health.
“I found out I was in menopause in the most horrific way. I was diagnosed with herpes instead of menopausal symptoms,” she said.
She emphasized the only way menopause and other women’s health issues can be destigmatized is by talking about them.
“It’s a privilege to age,” she said. “As we age, we have to stop believing that we have to stay eternally 30. We’re turning into monsters trying to stay eternally 30. We have to realize we’re greater than the shell we’re walking around in.”
The Academy Award winner said she feels like she is in a good place not only professionally, but personally as she is dating musician Van Hunt.
“Before Van came into my life, I took four years and I was alone, completely, completely alone, by choice … And I worked on myself. I really had to take time to do that.”
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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