Halle Berry and Adrien Brody shared a playful smooch at the 2025 Oscars two decades after their memorable kiss.
Berry, 58, embraced Brody, 51, on the Sunday, March 2, red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and the pair planted a kiss on each other’s lips for several seconds. After another hug, Brody gave Berry a kiss on the cheek while they both smiled.
“I had to do that,” Berry said in a clip shared via Access Hollywood. (Berry is a presenter at the ceremony, while Brody is nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist.)
While sharing a video of the interaction, the official Academy Instagram account captioned the clip, “A reunion 22 years in the making. #Oscars.”
The caption was in reference to Berry and Brody’s onstage kiss at the 2003 ceremony. Berry, who won Best Actress for Monster’s Ball in 2022, returned to the show the following year to present the category for Best Actor. Brody, for his part, was nominated for the award for his role in The Pianist.
After winning the award, Brody ran to the podium and embraced Berry — and kissed her on the lips for several moments while placing her in a dip and holding her head. “I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag,” he said while beginning his speech.
While reflecting on the interaction years later, Brody called it “one of the most memorable moments ever” in a 2015 interview with Vanity Fair. “You could say time slowed down,” he said. “That was that moment where I really, really felt it slow down. In fact, it must have, because by the time I got finished kissing her, and people kinda settled in, they were already flashing the sign that said, ‘Get off the stage, your time is up.’”
Two years later, Berry confirmed that the kiss was “not planned” during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.
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“That was not planned. I knew nothing about it,” she said in 2017. “I was like, ‘What the f—‘s happening right now?’ That is what was going through my mind. 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?”
After host Andy Cohen asked Berry about locking lips with Brody, she replied, “I don’t know — I was too focused on what the f— is going on right now! I don’t even know.”
As critics have looked back at the moment and questioned Berry’s lack of consent, Brody reflected on this perspective in a February interview with Variety. “We live in a very conscious time, which is a wonderful thing,” he said. “And nothing that I ever do or have done or would’ve done is ever done with the intention of making anyone feel bad.”
