What’s Up With Halle’s Hot AF Hellcat Posts On Instagram?

Savas Abadsidis May 6, 2021

Halle Berry’s got the internet abuzz after posting some perfectly tamed tiger shots of herself on Instagram.

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But fanboys (and girls!) can’t help but speculate if the Academy Award winning 54 year-old actress is just stretching the limits of her sexual side for a possible role as Hellcat in a future Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, a return (God forbid) to her role as Patience Phillips/Catwoman last seen in Warner Bros.’ 2004 litter box drop Catwoman, or just frisky over her hot and heavy new romance with Grammy winning musician Van Hunt.

Let’s weigh the options shall we?

Is Halle gonna be Hellcat in the MCU? The character of Hellcat, before we continue, is a lesser known but fairly high profile Marvel Comics character who was a longtime partner to Tony Stark/Iron Man in the comics as well having been a member of both the Avengers and the Defenders. Moreover, Hellcat’s alter ego, Patsy Walker, is a former child star and model whose comic book past as Walker goes back a long way.

Walker was the main character of many romance comics whose popularity exploded in the post Comics Code Authority days when many superhero comics were cancelled after a series of congressional hearings in the late 1940s determined they (much like video games today) were an existential threat to American youth.

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which was established in 1953 to investigate the problem of juvenile delinquency, and spent little time before letting it be known who they already believed guilty: comics. The public hearings, which took place on April 21, 22, and June 4, 1954, in New York City, focused on particularly graphic “crime and horror” comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. The unfavorable press coverage resulting from the hearings, largely in exchanges between Senator Estes Kefauver (Democrat from Tennessee) and EC Comics publisher William Gaines, caused the comic book industry to adopt the Comics Code Authority, a self-regulatory ratings code that was still in use until 2011. In the immediate aftermath of the hearings, several publishers were forced to drastically censor or even cancel many popular long-standing comic series.

Walker even ends up becoming Hellcat by the third season of Jessica Jones, except as a villain. When we last saw her at the end of JJ season 3, she was at the fist’s end of a Jessica Jones’ ass whooping that left Hellcat/Trish Walker, style icon, being taken away by SHIELD agents to the Raft in a disheveled state.

So let’s rule that out.

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Halle is stretching her physical prowess to portray Patience Phillips again in a sequel to Warner Bros.’ 2004 Catwoman. In the interest of sparing the feelings of someone I know who loves Berry’s outing as Catwoman in the first film, let’s just say it’s highly unlikely for two non-speculative reasons.

One is the original’s critical response: besides being universally panned by critics, Berry’s performance was very often identified as the primary source of the stink according to both critics and fans. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 9% with an average rating of 3.1/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, “Halle Berry is the lone bright spot, but even she can’t save this laughable action thriller.”

While I get a cheap campy thrill from hearing Berry uttering over-the-top lines while emulating Eartha Kitt like, “You see sometimes I’m good. Ooh I’m very good. Sometimes I’m bad, but only as bad as I want to be.” Most people, thankfully, do not.

Additionally, most folks and that includes every executive over at DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. act as if they really did bury this flop and cover it with cat litter.

Lastly and more importantly, it was huge financial flop.

Halle’s in love and showing it to her man. Berry’s cheeky caption that accompanies the photos “Hitting all the right spots,” coupled with fact that Halle posted the steamy catplay pics after a night she was being spotted by the Daily Mail enjoying a double date with her musician beau Van Hunt, 51, and friends on Tuesday night suggests, and is enough explanation for me, for Berry’s frisky tiger side emerging.

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Halle confirmed she was smitten for the Grammy winner back in September 2020, when she proudly sported a black Van Hunt shirt on her Instagram. “Now ya know…” she wrote in the caption, adding a heart emoji. Hunt said he was ‘a completely different person’ since meeting Berry in an interview with Entertainment Tonight in March. “I can say it like that, and I think that it’s improved every aspect of my life.”

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Above: Berry and Van Hunt at the Oscars last weekend.

Last fall a source told People that the couple had been seeing each other for “several months” and Hunt had already met Berry’s two children. The actress is a mother-of-two, to daughter Nahla, 12, with ex Gabriel Aubry, and son Maceo, seven, with ex-husband Olivier Martinez.

Said another source in that story, the pair are “very successful and smart, and they seem to be in a mature relationship and they seem like a really good match.”

Some might even say, puuuurfect.

Epilogue: Berry loves cats.

Halle Berry meet Halle Berry...last September People magazine reported that within an hour of animal shelter tweeting about a cat they had, which they named after the actress, “Berry — a noted animal lover — shared this message on her own Twitter account, adding a series of exclamation marks.”