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  • Halle Berry: Motherhood Drew Her to ‘Extant’

    Halle Berry stars in the 13-episode CBS special event Extant that premiered on Wednesday evening. She and one of the Extant producers, Greg Walker, recently dished about how motherhood–and the notion of playing an infertile astronaut pregnant with an unearthly being–drew her to her role as Molly Woods. Berry was pregnant with her second child when Walker–and Steven Spielberg, who is the big-name producer of Extant–pitched the role to her.

    “We’re sitting at her house and I’m pitching all these terrible, horrible things that can happen,” Walker said in their joint interview with News.com.au. “And I’m looking down at her stomach and thinking, ‘Can she handle it?’”

    Halle Berry now stars as Molly, an astronaut who returns to Earth after a 13-month solo mission in space. Her homecoming is beyond complicated by the artificial intelligence “son” created by her scientist husband and her shock at the discovery that she’s pregnant with what must be, given those months without human contact, an unearthly being.

    “I’m the happiest in my life when I have been pregnant, truly,” Halle Berry, who is married to Olivier Martinez, said. “So to be pregnant again on a show right after giving birth didn’t scare me at all. I thought, ‘I’m going to ace that part of this, for sure!’”

    Greg Walker wouldn’t hint at whether Halle Berry will spend all 13 weeks of the CBS special event pregnant or not. He did, however, hint at the notion that, while it is deemed a ‘special event,’ if the numbers allow, Extant could become a full-fledged series. He also promised that “startling and strange things” will drive Molly down intriguing paths.

    “It will have elements of Rosemary’s Baby because she’s having the child with something unknown. What is this entity? Will it stay here? Is it really her baby?” Berry said.

    Goran Visnjic of ER fame plays Halle Berry’s husband. Camryn Manheim plays her doctor.

    Did you tune in on Wednesday night to see Halle Berry star as Molly in Extant? Some believe it might be the blockbuster small screen hit of the summer season. Did your first taste leave you hungry for more? If so, you’re not alone.

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  • Halle Berry Talks About Her TV Debut in New CBS Series ‘Extant’

    Halle Berry will be making her TV debut this week in a new CBS Sci-fi drama, Extant, and she recently opened up about the show and making the move to television.

    In the series, the Oscar-winning actress plays an astronaut, Molly Woods, who has been on a space station for a long time and is now back with her family and adjusting to normal life.

    During a recent press conference, Berry was asked what drew her to the Steven Spielberg project.

    “There were so many elements,” Berry said, “but probably the first one was being a mother. This was a character when I first read it that was so relatable to me. I felt like it was just in my DNA. I had a knowingness about this character. I had a fundamental understanding. While I’m not an astronaut or scientist, far, far from it, I still had an understanding about the human quality of this woman and her struggle to not only find time for herself, which is what she loves to do, … but also to be a good mother.”

    Berry said she can easily relate to her character of Molly.

    “She’s strong. She’s complicated. I’m complicated. But she has a will to survive, to win. She’s good at her heart,” said Berry.

    Like so many other big-screen actors who are making the move to television, she said the switch from the big screen to television no longer has stigma attached to it.

    “And for me I feel like the best writing now is on television,” she said.

    In the series, Berry‘s character has a robot son, Ethan (Pierce Gagnon), who was created by her husband, John (Goran Visnjic).

    She hinted that the robot theme will lead to questions about love and what makes us human.

    “I don’t think there’s one thing that makes us human and that’s what this series is all about,” she said.

    “Can we teach it to love? Can we give it free will? Will it act as human beings act over time? What intrigued me about this series is to try to discover the answer(s). Can we teach someone to be human? Hopefully by the time we finish this series, we might have a better answer. We might be able to intelligently talk about it. If you believe that love is what makes you human, then that beckons the question, will Ethan, will the robot, ever be able to really love? Will he be able to love Molly and John, his parents? That’s the question our show is also asking,” said Berry.

    Extant premieres Wednesday on CBS.

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