Halle Berry has nothing but gratitude for Crime 101 costar Chris Hemsworth after he stood up for her on set.
“[He’s] a stand-up guy. I won’t go into it now, but he stood up for me in a moment in our movie, and instantly I knew right then I’m gonna follow this guy, be a fan of this guy for the rest of my life because he stood up for a woman,” Berry, 58, told E! News on the red carpet of CinemaCon while promoting the movie. “He didn’t have to do it and he did it.”
The praise is mutual for Hemsworth, 41, who gushed that he has “admired” Berry’s work for “many, many years.”
“I was obviously very intimidated to sit opposite her within a scene and try and, you know, not just be in awe of what she was doing,” he said to the outlet. “Certain people bring out not just the best in you, but also a sort of comfort level, you know, where it does feel like it’s a place to explore and it’s a place to examine different ideas and try different things. That was the experience. I loved every second of it.”
Crime 101, based on Don Winslow’s 2020 novella of the same name, centers around Hemsworth’s jewel thief character who begins a project after Pedro Pascal’s character can no longer complete the gig. Berry stars as an insurance broker, while Mark Ruffalo plays a detective attempting to uncover the mystery. Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Tate Donovan, Devon Bostick, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte round out the cast.
Berry and Hemsworth were joined onstage by director Bart Layton at CinemaCon to share a sneak peek of Crime 101, which is set to hit theaters later this year. (No release date has been announced yet.)
“In the driver’s seat of this exciting ride is none other than our fearless director, Bart Layton,” Berry told the crowd, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The director noted that the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles has a hand in the storyline and hoped it would “capture L.A. in a way you might not have seen on film before,” the outlet reported.
Hemsworth called the movie “uniquely mesmerizing,” describing Crime 101 as the type of film that “draws you into its world and keeps you in suspense in the last possible second.”
Crime 101 hits theaters later this year.
