I will be the first to admit that I have never really been a fan of Halle. I just never really believed that she was allowed to do her best work in the first two films and I never really followed her career. I know, I must have been living under a rock.

How things change in a matter of a few hours. She really kicks some evil mutant booty in The Last Stand and after meeting her in person I was just smitten by her beauty.

Even with very different journie types asking questions from her love life, to her desire to have children, to asking about the rumored problems between her and Bryan Singer during the production of the first two films, she always kept her cool and charm.

The next day after our round table interviews I was able to chat with her for a few more minutes for our exclusive video interview. While some outlets are claiming that she is saying no more to comic book movies she does goes on record twice (print and video) that she would love to do more X-Men films and even revisit Catwoman, as long as it's done right.

Our exclusive video interview is spoiler free but our print interview below is full of spoilers... BEWARE! Check out the exclusive video interview with Halle Berry after you read the completely different print interview below! If you want to only view the video interview because you are wary of spoilers, click here.

IESB: You definitely had a lot more to do this time around on X-Men 3.

HB: I know, I am so happy at this job this time.

IESB: You kicked ass in this one.

HB: Thank you. It was fun. This time, because I've said it before, but it wasn't about being more in the movie I just wanted to have a point of view and right away when I met with Brett he said “you know I agree with you, that is was what I hadn't liked about the series”. Storm is so strong in the comic book and such a presence and I said it wasn't about how many minutes that I was onscreen, but that if I was on for five let me say something in five minutes. I know that it's an ensemble, but let Storm have a personality. Let her have a point of view. Let her speak and say something, and he was like, 'Right on. She's going to speak this time.'

IESB: And fly

HB: And fly with my cape and not the plane. Fly with my cape that I have worn for two movies and never used.

IESB: Do you sympathize with the character being against the cure as a black woman?

HB: Oh yeah, and I'm so happy that they wrote her against it. So yes, I am.

IESB: Would you feed that way about like if there was a cure for diabetes you would take it?

HB: I'd cure diabetes. I would cure anything that ails anyone's health. I would love for everyone to live with optimum good health and no one would be sick or have any disease that threatens their life. I have a nephew who has down syndrome and I think that he was born that way because he's meant to be born that way and I think that those babies are joy babies. I know that my sister has learned a lot from having him and I think that he has been a blessing in her life. So would I want to change that? No. He had a lot of heart surgeries when he was younger, but would I want him to have heart problems? No. I want him to be happy and healthy, but would I change who he is? No.

IESB: What if he actually said that he wanted to change that, because that is a topic in this film, some mutants want to. Would you still support him if that was his decision.

HB: Yeah, because he's living with it and he said I don't want to be this way? Then yeah because I think that I ultimately support that we all have that choice. If the choice were there for us I would support someone who wanted to change because I don't know what it's like to live with that, and so I could not and would not want to stand in the way of somebody else's right to chose. But me personally, I don't believe that I would be someone who would choose that. Like if I was able to say, 'Okay, I can be white or Black?' Would I be white? No. Would I be Asian or change in any way? I think that I wouldn't and that I would stay the way that I am.

IESB: Can you talk about the differences in working with Bryan and Brett?

HB: Oh Yeah, they were many. Well, Brett is five. You have to understand he's like a five year old in a big man's body. (laughter) For real. And that is fine because he loves movies and he loves people and he's got this unaffected way of about dealing with things like kids have. He is very childlike in that he says what he feels and laughs when he wants to and gets mad when he wants to. He does everything in a moment and in an instant like kids do. So you always get the feeling with Brett that you understand exactly where he is and what he is feeling because he wears it all over his body and I am a person who really responds to that because I don't like to guess at things, like, 'Well, he said this, but what is he really thinking.' I want to really know what is what. So I like that part of Brett. Bryan was a lot more cerebral and I think that the first two movies reflected that. This movie is very cerebral too because that is the nature of the comic book, but Brett brought a lot fun and a lot of action and lightness to it that I think the fans will really like. It's something a little different, but if this in fact the last movie I think they will be happy that we go out with a bang because it gives them, I think, finally what the comic book is really about too in many ways. It's about that big action splash that you want to see your superheroes doing.

IESB: There is talk that there is going to be a young mutant spin off series and now that you have pretty much become the leader…

HB: I know, what does that mean? I am going to run the school…

IESB: If they called you back and wanted you to be the new professor on a new spin off series, are you game?

HB: I think that I would have to say yes because I could see where that would be a part that I could probably sink my teeth into a little bit more, being the leader of the school and have an impact on the kids in a different way and I wouldn't be just flying the plane (laughter) if I was running the school. So I think that I would go back (laughs) if I had my cake.

IESB: Can you picture your kids watching these movies?

HB: I can picture my kids watching these movies, sure. That seems like a good picture (laughter).

IESB: And you want to have kids?

HB: I hope so. I've certainly reached an age where working is starting to feel like it's not enough. I'm starting to feel like I need something more in my life, something more meaningful and so hopefully when the time is right and whatever is meant for me to have it will manifest itself and will come my way.

IESB: Well, you should be working on that.

HB: Well, I'm working on making that manifest. I'm working on thoughts of manifestation (laughs).

IESB: What was the most challenging part of X-Men: The Last Stand?

HB: Challenging…hmm... Probably on this one it was the flying. I had to do a lot of spinning this time around and I found out in this movie that I have a pretty weak stomach. I lost my cookies a few times.

IESB: Hugh would see it as an amusement ride.

HB: Because he wasn't on it.

IESB: What do you think is essentially the real sort of theme in these films is, and do you think that these films took themselves too seriously, should they have been more comic bookie?

HB: I love that they took it seriously because that said that this was a serious issues, but that we could present it to you in a way that both young and old could relate to and understand and get something out of. I think that in the comic book it's presented as a serious issue. So to not have it be serious I think would be to not do the comic book serious justice. It's always been serious deal.

IESB: Have you seen the entire movie?

HB: I haven't seen it at all.

IESB: Are you going to see it tonight?

HB: I'm not going to see it until the premiere
in Mexico .

IESB: Watch it all the way through the credits.

HB: So how is it?

IESB: You will have to stay all the way through the credits.

HB: I have to do the outtakes?

IESB: No, not outtakes, something that have added at the very end of the film once the credits stop rolling.

HB: I bet I know what that is.

IESB: What do you think it is?

HB: Does it have to do with someone opening his eyes?

IESB: Maybe from a certain angle.

HB: I don't know, I'll have to see it in Mexico .

IESB: We understand that there was a scene where you are laughing a lot that involved Brett Ratner?

HB: Oh, is that when Brett came out as Hugh, as Wolverine. I mean, imagine Brett in Hugh's costume. Brett in Hugh's costume (laughs). That's all I'm going to say. It was just hysterical.

IESB: Of the films that you've done so far, which one do you think has been the most satisfying for you personally as an actress outside of Monster's Ball?

HB: I would probably say 'Introducing Dorothy Dandrige' simply because that was the first time that I had tried to produce something and I managed to do it not knowing what the hell I was doing really. I was just trying to figure it out and I was able to bring to life the story of a woman that I just loved and whose life so inspired mine and who left a legacy that allowed me to dream that I could one day do what she did. So that was really meaningful. The work itself was meaningful, but knowing the importance of bringing her story to the forefront and reminding people how hard it has been for people of color in this industry felt really great.

IESB: Are there any more historical figures that you'd like to bring to the screen?

HB: I think that for me playing her - I feel like I want nothing to be better, that I started with the best. She was the person that I thought was the most meaningful in my life so I doubt it. The only one that I would probably love to play probably later in life is Angela Davis. She's someone else that I really love and her life is so fascinating and her position that she was in, many people think that's not sympathetic and they have told me, 'You can't make a movie about Angela Davis. You know who she was?' Yes, I do, and that's why I'd like to do a movie about her because I think that anyone is sympathetic when you understand why they did what they did even if they did something horrific. I think that if you tell the story from a human point of view, if you're human and a sympathetic person you can understand why people sometimes make bad choices. We've all made them. I think that you can take yourself outside of your reality for a minute and maybe understand why people do bad things sometimes and why they do destructive things, and that's a reality. It's what is happening all around us. It's not that I think she did, but I think that you can understand why anyone does something if you come from the right point of view.

IESB: Are you excited to go to Mexico ?

HB: I am. I have a great fan base in Mexico through my website and so I'm
happy to go see them.

IESB: Are you working on anything right now?

HB: A movie with Benicio Del Toro called 'Things We Lost In The Fire.'

IESB: Talk to us about your character.

HB: I play a woman who was married to a guy and she deals with the loss of him. He gets killed and so she's dealing with the loss of her husband and she has two little children and Benicio plays a strung out heroin addict who was the friend of my husband and they have this really adversarial relationship in the beginning and it's the story of how these two people ultimately come together and change each other's lives and help each other heal. It's one of those small, indie feeling, slice of life movies. It has no wrap up ending. The ending is just as unclear as the beginning was, but it's a wonderful little slice of life movie.

IESB: Is that shooting already?

HB: No, we start in the summer though.

IESB: What about “Perfect Strangers”?

HB: I just finished that here in New York .

IESB: Who do you play in that?

HB: I play an investigative journalist who is trying avenge/investigate the death of her friend and it's about and in doing so she has to get into the world of the internet and the dark side of the internet and how nobody is who they say they are she goes into these chat rooms. It's like this sexy, seductive world of cyber land and cyber sex and fun stuff (laughter).

IESB: You have tackled the comic book genre with Catwoman and with the X-Men franchise, if they called you back and said there is another franchise we would like you to look at, are you still open for that or are you done with the comic book genre?

HB: I'm done.

IESB: Unless they call you back for Storm?

HB: Right, or Catwoman.

IESB: Would you?

HB: In a minute. In a minute. I loved it so much and I hate that it - it was what it was, but if we had a chance to do it again I know that we would make it better. We'd make a better story and have a better villain. I always thought that we should have had a better villain than a woman who's faced cracked off, but you know, hey that's the past and I'm over it. I think that I would do it. I loved being Catwoman.

IESB: You have been good spirited about writing “I won't do another Catwoman film” on a chalkboard.

HB: That was just sillyness, I can go with a joke, but if they seriously said, 'We want to do another one and here is how we're going to make another one and make it better because we learned from the mistakes.' I would do it because I believe that we could make it better. I think that Catwoman was a great character that maybe just wasn't presented in the right way. People see it on video and they seem to like it. They tell me that it wasn't as bad as they all said.

IESB: I heard there was talk of doing a Cleopatra film with you, is that something that's really in the works?

HB: Well, it's been out there for a while, but probably something that is a little bit more real than that is that I've been working on a movie with Marc Forester to direct on a movie of Monsters Ball on a movie of Nephrotiti and her life. So that's probably a little more real and closer to happening than Cleopatra.

IESB: How close? Is financing secure, the studio is looking at it?

HB: The funding is secure and we're not going to do it with a studio. We're probably going to do it on our own and then get a studio to distribute it so that we can do it our way, Marc's way really.

IESB: You have said that you are much happier playing Storm as a stronger character, this is a geek question, Storm has never been stronger than when she had the white Mohawk, would you ever do the Mohawk.

HB: (laughs) Next movie. I think that I'd have to go shorter. I can't go longer. I would be open to doing the white Mohawk.

IESB: Hair looks much better this around.

HB: I have to give it to Brett. He's the one who said, 'Okay, that hair. Gone. I don't know what we're going to do, but it's not going to be that.'

IESB: If they would of called you back and Bryan was still directing X-Men 3, would you have still done it?

HB: (odd silence, very long odd silence, laughter) Yeah.

IESB: How close were you to not coming back?

HB: It didn't have anything to do with Bryan . As a director I think that Bryan is awesome. I can't wait to see 'Superman' and I am a fan of him that way. It wasn't that if he was coming back I wouldn't have come back, but it was more that I had another project that I was sort of toying with where I would really get to do something and it was way less money then X-Men pays us, but I was just feeling like I didn't want to go and get a lot of money and sit around my trailer and do nothing. That didn't sound like a good time for seven months. So it was more about that and realizing that if they gave Storm a little something to do then I would gladly come back. I just didn't want to come back and sit around when I had an opportunity to go and do a great piece of work somewhere else. I was struggling with my obligation to the series and to Storm who I have created or whether I should go do some work. It was just sort of a confusing time for me to figure out what was best for me to do and ultimately I chose this.

IESB: Was that project “Perfect Strangers”?

HB: No. It was one that I couldn't do because I had to choose one or the
other, and so it moved on and I chose this one.