Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody and Halle Berry recreate iconic kiss from 2003 Academy Awards
Adrien Brody entered Oscars infamy in 2003 when he pulled Halle Berry into an impromptu kiss onstage.
On the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, Halle Berry had her revenge.
In jest, of course.
Watch the video above.
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Berry, an Oscar winner for Monster’s Ball, stole a smooch from Brody on the red carpet before the ceremony began.
As they did so the crowd around them, which included reporters and Brody’s partner Georgina Chapman, laughed and cheered along.
The pair then hugged and laughed along with Chapman.
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Brody first planted one on Berry in 2003 while accepting the Oscar for best actor in The Piano.
Berry, who won best actress in 2002 and presented the award to Brody, seemed taken aback as he held and dipped her into a kiss.
“I bet they didn’t tell you that [kiss] was in the gift bag,” he joked as he began his acceptance speech, which went on for three minutes.
“I haven’t really written a speech because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things I didn’t win.”
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The moment has since become an infamous Oscars moments and raised a lot of eyebrows, especially amid the MeToo era.
“I was like, ‘What the f— is happening right now?’ That is what was going through my mind,” Berry later told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live in 2017.
“And because I was there the year before and I know the feeling of being out of your body, I just f—ing went with it. But I was like, ‘What the f— is going on right now?'”
Brody himself addressed the kiss last month, telling Variety: “We live in a very conscious time, which is a wonderful thing… And nothing that I ever do or have done or would’ve done is ever done with the intention of making anyone feel bad.”
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But now Berry doesn’t appear hold the incident against him.
“I had to get some payback,” she captioned a video of their latest liplock, along with a winking emoji.
Adrien Brody has won the Oscar for best actor, this time for his role as the fictional Hungarian architect László Tóth in The Brutalist.
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Berry, meanwhile, is still the only Black woman to win an Oscar for best actress.
“I hope this year, someone stands next to me,” she recently said on What Now? Trevor Noah’s podcast.
“This year, I hope it happens. Because I’m tired of occupying that space alone.”
This year’s win for best actress went to Anora star Mikey Madison.
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