With the mesmerising manner of an old-school film star, Halle Berry seems the very personification of the dramatic migration of film actors, writers and directors to television, the new wave which has caused the so-called ‘‘golden age’’ of television.
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And Berry, the star of a new ‘‘event’’ television drama, Extant, about a female astronaut, Molly Woods, who returns pregnant from a year-long solo space mission, comes to the point very quickly: ‘‘First and foremost it was story, story, story,’’ she tells The Guide.
‘‘This was one of the best things I have ever read.’’
‘‘Quite honestly, I have read lots of pilots, lots of films, and when I read this it just jumped out at me,’’ the star of Monster’s Ball and the X-Men franchise says.
‘‘I related to this character in a very profound way. I understood her. I thought I had the wherewithal to breathe some life into this character.’’