Video: Halle Berry on playing a 'racist' character
Halle Berry says that playing a woman with multiple personalities in Frankie & Alice was already challenging.
Making one of the personalities a white racist named Alice brought the role to a whole other level of difficulty.
"That was hard for me as a person and as an actor," says Berry in this exclusive clip from the film's Blu-Ray/DVD release on Tuesday.
She calls the film, originally released in May, "mind-blowing to wrap my brain around."
"It was hard for me to accept and understand that a woman could exist inside of a person of color that was filled with so much hatred and had the ability to express it the way she did," says Berry.
Berry received a Golden Globe nomination for the drama which follows an African-American go-go dancer who has Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Based on a true story, the film follows two unique alter egos -- a seven-year-old called "Genius" and the Southern white racist "Alice." Stellan Skarsgard plays a psychotherapist trying to help the woman.
"(The part) intimidated me, that's what I wanted to do it so much," says Berry. "Whenever I am scared to death of something, than I know I am on the right track."