Halle, Billy Bob reunite
2007-08-03 08:47
Los Angeles - Oscar-winning US actress Halle Berry will star alongside actor Billy Bob Thornton in a Hollywood movie about racism in the southern state of Texas, industry press reported on Thursday.
The film industry journal Variety reported that the legal drama Tulia will tell the tale of a small Texan town where a tenth of the black population was targeted by drugs charges in 1999 and later mostly pardoned - a case that drew accusations of racism.
Berry and Thornton will be directed in the film by John Singleton, who directed the 1991 cult classic Boyz n the Hood, a drama about the violent lives of black youngsters in a Los Angeles ghetto.
The 40-year-old actress won the Oscar for best actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, - a film in which she played a black woman who had an affair with a white racist portrayed by Thornton.