THE FACTS
Nia Long talked about her lack of opportunity to secure darker roles.

THE SPIN
A few months ago Nia Long was accused of taste testing her own foot when she claimed performers should stick to music and let actors act.

This time in a new interview with Honey magazine, she was asked about her and other black women being type cast.

Via Honey:

As an incredibly sexy woman, have you been able to defy being cast as a sexy role?

I think that there is a part of me that is type cast as the “girl” or “pretty woman,” those things are very real and present in my career. Michelle Pfieffer said in an interview, “Beauty is a blessing and a curse.” I never wake up in the morning and say, “Oh my God! I am just the most gorgeous woman on the planet!” I feel that I’m attractive, but I don’t go around feeling myself on some glamorous, beautiful, perfect woman thing. What I would like for myself is to get roles that are more dramatic because that’s where I started. The dramatic roles that I have auditioned for, that I have tried to fight for, I’ll always get told that I’m too pretty or that a woman struggling wouldn’t look like me. That’s unfortunate because any tragedy that’s going to happen, doesn’t happen because you’re pretty or not pretty. It happens because that’s just part of life. I also know what my own life has been like. It hasn’t always been easy. So, when I get these scripts, the characters are so interesting, dark and gritty and I’m like, “Wow, I would love to play a role like that.” Every single time, I just get shut down, but I think that it’s a matter of me trying to persevere in that area. I try to keep moving because it will eventually happen.

Well, we’ve seen Halle do it in Losing Isaiah and Charlize Thereon in Monster…

How many black women have done it? Halle’s done it and Taraji did it. That’s it. There’s a couple others, but it is so interesting to me that we get attention for playing these damaged women, but we don’t get the glory for playing heroic, beautiful women. It’s like, the level of attention that Halle got and the level of attention that Taraji got, it’s warranted in the performance. Mainstream Hollywood doesn’t really celebrate us if we do a huge romantic comedy that makes millions of dollars. There’s such a division in terms of how we are appreciated in the industry. I don’t think it will always be that way, but right now, it is what it is.

Nia also revealed that she’s working on her own documentary following her work with Chris Rock’s recent doc, Good Hair.

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THE FACTS
Halle Berry denies that she is pregnant with her second child.

THE SPIN
Stepping out in a skin-tight short black dress on The Jay Leno Show, Halle Berraaaaaaaaaaay (Halle Berry, Halle Berry) shut down rumors that she was knocked up for the second time around.

Though she did say she wanted to have another child soon after giving birth to daughter Nahla last March, Halle denies previous reports that she and model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry were expecting their second child.

Halle told Leno:  I was getting a complex! I was like, ‘I’ve got to stop with the burgers, or something!’”

Whatever she had been eating obviously didn’t stick to her.

See Halle deny the rumors herself below:

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THE FACTS:

• Halle Berry speaks out on whether or not she’ll marry the father of her child.

THE SPIN:

For the millionth time, Halle Berry doesn’t want to become Mrs. Gabriel Aubry.

When asked by Britain’s You magazine if she’ll ever walk back down the aisle, Halle gave a polite “hell no.”

She said:

“I’m so not the relationship go-to girl. But I’m much clearer about what a relationship is, which is why I will never marry again. Gabriel and I have a great partnership and a lovely daughter. But I once was stupid enough to say, in a previous relationship, ‘I’m going to be with this person for ever,’ and realized, as I grew, that I don’t know if for ever is possible.

Gabriel and I don’t look at our relationship in terms of for ever, we look at it as right here today. And today means being the best people we can be, the best parents we can be. It’s wonderful, but neither one of us feels the need to attach ourselves to each other for life – because it may not be that.”

Someone’s been burned. Despite not wanting to be anyone’s bride, she hasn’t turned down the possibility of being his baby mama the second time around.

She added: “I’m certainly open to having another, so I hope so. Motherhood will always be my priority now, especially because I had a child for the first time at 41. My priority had been myself for a long, long time, but now it will always be Nahla. You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.”

Somebody’s gonna call her out for having children out of wedlock in 5, 4, 3, 2 . . . .

YOUR SPIN: Do you think Halle Berry will ever get married again or is she done?

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