Halle Berry has recently paid homage to her iconic Catwoman role with a few risqué snaps.
Taking to Instagram, the actress left fans with their jaws on the floor after posting a series of photos in her underwear with her new rescue kittens.
The star showed off her incredible physique in her black cut-out underwear as she held her two kitties over her chest wearing a mask over her eyes just like her iconic character.
In the caption she wrote: "And STILL... meow!
"It’s been 20 years today since I had the honor of bringing this iconic character to life. She will always be close to my heart and I will forever be Patience Phillips aka CATWOMAN!" she said.
"Thank you @missjee79! When these black beauties showed up in my yard searching for their mother, Jee helped us through the rescue process," she continued before adding: "Forever grateful!"
Have a look at the post below:Twenty years after taking on the role, the 57-year-old is still rocking that eye mask just as good as the first time.
And her fans were living for it!
"The waaaay you keep your foot on our necks!!!!!" wrote one user while another added: "Meowwwwe pretty kitty!"
A third even referred to her as a "timeless beauty."
And this user stated: "The only one cat woman Halle Berry just the best of the best."
Berry took the titular role of Catwoman shortly after winning an Academy Award in 2002 (where she went on to make history as the first Black woman to win Best Actress).
When speaking to Variety in an interview back in 2020, the star opened up about how people tried to talk her out of taking on the role.
"People said to me, 'You can't do that. You've just won the Oscar,'" she told the outlet. [But] I thought, 'This is a great chance for a woman of color to be a superhero. Why wouldn't I try this?'"
Though Berry wasn't necessarily thrilled with the plot of the film, she defended her choice: "I was just the actor for hire. I wasn't the director. I had very little say over that."
Elsewhere during the interview, she also talked about the importance of Black women taking on more complex roles, just like the one she did when she took on the part of an MMA fighter named Jackie Justice in the movie Bruised.
"Why not a Black woman?" Berry remembered thinking when she realized that the role may have gone to fellow actress Blake Lively. “It’s an old genre; there’s so many great fight films that have been made. I made the point why it would be worth retelling an age-old story with this new twist."
However, she went on to star in and direct the 2021 film, giving the character the voice she wanted.
"As an actor, I always show up and do my part, and I can only do what I can do," she told the outlet. "Being the director, I have a part in the totality of every department. I get to have a voice. That was different, and I really loved that."
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