Revolution Studios has a sexy thriller on their hands with Perfect Stranger starring Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi. This intense game of cat and mouse centers around Rowena Price (Berry), an investigative reporter who is hot on the trail of Harrison Hill (Willis), whom she feels is connected to her childhood friend’s murder. With the aide of her Man Friday, Miles Haley (Ribisi), Ro goes undercover to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Urban Network recently had the pleasure to sit down with the beautiful actress and discuss her latest project, her new-found sense of freedom and, most of all, the fact that she is finally comfortable with who she is with no excuses.

Q: So, what made you passionate about playing this role because your producer and director said you were apparently excited about it?
A: Well, I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different and Ro was so multifaceted. I never played a character…who played a character…who played a character and that gave me a chance as an artist to sort of stretch my limit and to challenge myself. When I read the movie and got to the end I thought, ‘Wow, I don’t know how I’m going pull this off;  but if I can’t then I’m gonna go down trying!’ That’s how passionate I was about it.

Q: In the movie there is a comment about why powerful women pick shitty men. Why do you think that is?
A:  I wish I knew. [laughing] The course of my life would be different if I knew the answer to that question. When I read that line I thought it was hysterical – HYSTERICAL - and I wish I had learned the answer to that before the age 40, but life would have been boring I guess. [laughing].

Q: You have an Emmy, a golden globe, you have an Oscar and you have a Hollywood star. What is it that you really want to do with the next half of your life now? Is there something you really want to do?
A: If I could win a Grammy that would be something, because I can’t carry a note. If I won a Grammy you wouldn’t be able to tell me nothing! But, yeah, there are lots of things I want. I want to be a mother; that feels really important. Career is one thing…I think I got a lot out of this career and made the most of my opportunity. But I am starting to feel like I need something more meaningful to wake me up in the morning and its feeling like its family…its children.

Q: You must feel 100% comfortable in your beauty. There’s a part in this movie where you are dressed incredibly, the camera accentuates your physicality and you nail the scene. Where does that confidence come from and is it still comfortable for you to be confident with that side of you?
A: I think that also comes with 40. I’ve become really comfortable with my sexuality and I don’t make excuses for it anymore. Its part of being a woman and it’s what empowers us when we are smart enough to know how to use it. The character of Ro certainly knew how to use it and I think I’ve been learning that as I’ve gotten older. I’ve become comfortable with that side of who I am. In the beginning I used to have to downplay it because I wanted to be taken more seriously as a thespian, as an artist and as an actor. So I played crack heads to disguise myself. I think as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing my physical self doesn’t diminish me in anyway or my talent.

Q: Is there a character you are yearning to play?
A: I really would like to be in a romantic comedy. I do have one coming up called, Nappily Ever After. I have to shave my head bald for this movie. I can’t wait. That could be out by the end of the summer. Nobody in Hollywood thinks so though. That’s another nut I have to crack because I have to convince them that I can do comedy. I’m doing Nappily for myself and it will be a chance for me to show that side of myself.

Q: Who do you play in Nappily Ever After?
A: I play this woman, ‘Venus.’ The relationship that woman have with their hair, and how their hair throughout history has defined us and how we’re in such bondage. If our hair’s not right then were not right. In the beginning of the movie, something is done to my character and her hair starts to fall out. So one night, after being drunk and having to deal with the fact that her hair is jacked up, she decides to shave her hair completely bald. And now she has to face the next morning with no hair and how her life and everyone around her is different and behaves differently. Because she was this beautiful girl with this long hair and now she’s bald. She’s different now; she’s forced to look at what beauty really is and it comes from inside, not outside. But it’s a hard lesson for us to get. This movie will really expose that and help us sort of come to terms. Maybe every time we hear thunder we won’t go running for cover.

Q: What is the best part about being Halle Berry right now?
A: I’m in a really good space in my life. I’m just happy and I can honestly say it’s not because of anything. It’s not because I have a really cute boyfriend right now. It’s not because of my career. It’s because I feel good about me. And if any one of those things disappeared, I’d still be happy. I’d still be ok. And that feels like a really good place to finally arrive in life.