The kissing bandit strikes once more! It appears Halle Berry had one factor on her thoughts whereas on the Oscars 2025 crimson carpet: retribution. As evidenced in a video shared on the Academy Awards official Instagram account, Berry got here out of nowhere to plant a giant fats one on Finest Actor nominee Adrien Brody. “A reunion 22 years within the making,” the caption learn. However that is not all. Berry posted the general public show of retribution on her Instagram as properly. “Surpriseee [Adrien Brody]!! I needed to get some payback,” she wrote, including a winking face emoji.

It needs to be famous, nevertheless, that Brody’s girlfriend, Georgina Chapman, was additionally current for the shock smooch. Eek. However, because it seems, Berry issued a daring warning to her earlier than she locked lips together with her man.

Halle Berry gave Georgina Chapman a fast heads-up earlier than she stole a passionate peck from Adrien Brody, saying, “Sorry Georgina, however I gotta do it.” Does this make Berry a lady’s woman?

In case you missed this truth about Halle Berry’s life: Manner again in 2003, it was Brody who first bestowed a giant smoocharoo on an unsuspecting Berry whereas she offered him with the Finest Actor award for his position in “The Pianist.” Afterward, he joked, “I wager they did not inform you that was within the present bag.” Whereas Brody’s impromptu motion garnered many laughs from the viewers, Berry initially felt confused in regards to the awkward kiss, and Brody has not too long ago been criticized for the nonconsensual transfer. 

“We stay in a really aware time, which is a superb factor. And nothing that I ever do or have accomplished or would’ve accomplished is ever accomplished with the intention of constructing anybody really feel dangerous,” he maintained throughout an interview with Selection in February about his conduct. Maybe, nevertheless, Berry’s latest transfer proves as soon as and for all that the Brody/Berry affectionate banter is all in good enjoyable.