"I loved working with Halle," Cruz reports. "From day one I connected with her. She made me feel so comfortable. She’s a very real woman who is smart and funny and honest."
"It was wonderful watching Halle work in this film, having seen her evolution as an actress," says Charles Dutton, who has known Berry for many years but had never worked with her prior to Gothika. "She’s an extremely intelligent actress; she’s fearless and she’s daring. She’s a real pro."
As exhaustive as was the process of playing Miranda’s tumultuous journey, "I’m really proud to be a part of Gothika," Berry enthuses. "There are some scenes in the film that scared me while we were shooting, and I already knew what was going to happen! So if audiences leave the theater feeling like, ‘Wow, that scared the heck out of me,’ then I think we’ve done our job."