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Halle Berry and Conan O'Brien 1997

The tabloids spent all that energy linking Halle Berry to the wrong guys while the real answer was sitting in a dairy commercial the whole time. She sat down with Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on March 21, 1997, and the gossip pages got called out first: her romantic life, she said, was being invented outright, and the names attached to her over the years ran through Suge Knight, Michael DeLorenzo and Kevin Costner, a list she made clear was fiction top to bottom. Then she flipped it and told Conan she really wanted him, which got the reaction you'd expect from a studio audience. His read was that a line like that could air on television and the tabloids still wouldn't print a word, and she agreed they probably wouldn't. He wanted the details, asked if his upper body had anything to do with it, and she laughed him off before explaining that seeing him in that green moustache for the Got Milk? spot sealed it. He was genuinely thrown, calling it one of his worst looks and assuming it would scare people off. She said no, she loved it, thought it was cool. So he offered to wear the thing permanently, just for her, because he liked her. The back and forth is a faithful reconstruction of the published account rather than a confirmed verbatim record, which honestly tracks given how fast the whole thing moves. What gets me is that nobody in that room expected a milk ad to be the answer, and yet here we are. fr #HalleBerry #ConanOBrien

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Halle Berry and Conan O'Brien 1997

The tabloids spent all that energy linking Halle Berry to the wrong guys while the real answer was sitting in a dairy commercial the whole time. She sat down with Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on March 21, 1997, and the gossip pages got called out first: her romantic life, she said, was being invented outright, and the names attached to her over the years ran through Suge Knight, Michael DeLorenzo and Kevin Costner, a list she made clear was fiction top to bottom. Then she flipped it and told Conan she really wanted him, which got the reaction you'd expect from a studio audience. His read was that a line like that could air on television and the tabloids still wouldn't print a word, and she agreed they probably wouldn't. He wanted the details, asked if his upper body had anything to do with it, and she laughed him off before explaining that seeing him in that green moustache for the Got Milk? spot sealed it. He was genuinely thrown, calling it one of his worst looks and assuming it would scare people off. She said no, she loved it, thought it was cool. So he offered to wear the thing permanently, just for her, because he liked her. The back and forth is a faithful reconstruction of the published account rather than a confirmed verbatim record, which honestly tracks given how fast the whole thing moves. What gets me is that nobody in that room expected a milk ad to be the answer, and yet here we are. fr #HalleBerry #ConanOBrien

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