In “Monster’s Ball,” Berry plays grieving widow Leticia Musgrove, who strikes up a romance with corrections officer Hank Grotowski (Thornton). Unbeknownst to them, Hank assisted in executing the man Leticia was married to. On the podcast, Berry complained that her and Thornton’s explicit sex scene caused them to be romantically linked in real life.

Halle Berry has shut down a long-standing rumour about a sex scene in the film Monster's Ball. During an interview for Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast on Monday, the actress took the opportunity to reject speculation that she and co-star Billy Bob Thornton were actually having sex in a particularly explicit sequence of the 2001 movie.