{"id":20621,"date":"2014-07-02T07:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/lifestyle\/?p=20621"},"modified":"2014-07-02T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:51:58","slug":"halle-berry-leaves-movies-to-take-on-gripping-new-tv-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/lifestyle\/2014\/07\/02\/halle-berry-leaves-movies-to-take-on-gripping-new-tv-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry leaves movies to take on gripping new TV role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halle Berry thinks TV is now better than film.<\/span>

The 47-year-old actress – who has children Nahla, six, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, and eight-month-old Maceo with husband Olivier Martinez – was unimpressed with the movie scripts she was receiving and had no desire to return to work until she was approached to appear in sci-fi drama series\u00a0<\/span>Extant<\/em>.<\/span>

She told Entertainment Weekly: “I was being offered parts that I felt like I had done before. They weren’t exciting enough for me to leave my family for four months. I realised some of the best writing especially for women, was on television.<\/span>

“The minute I started to read\u00a0<\/span>Extant<\/em>, I couldn’t put it down. I thought, ‘Wow. This is different.’ It’s innovative.”<\/span>

The highly-anticipated miniseries sees Halle play infertile astronaut Molly Woods who returns from a year-long solo space mission pregnant, and the brunette beauty was attracted to the character because of her “complicated” life.<\/span>

She added: “Molly is a strong female character, which I really love to play. Molly is a complicated woman with a complicated family.<\/span>

“Who is a woman who goes away to space for a year and leaves her husband, first of all? Who is a woman who comes back pregnant and tries to handle it somehow on her own? That just felt like a complication that I wanted to be a part of.”<\/span><\/p>\n

– BangShowBiz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n