During her film career, Halle Berry has taken on mutants, James Bond villains and psychiatric patients.

But now the 43-year-old actress is facing her greatest challenge to date – shooting with great white sharks for new movie Dark Tide.

Halle donned a flowered bikini and black wetsuit as she prepared to get into a shark cage in Seal Island, False Bay in South Africa, to film a scene for the upcoming thriller.

Looking relaxed about the impending encounter, Halle talked through the scene with the director before shooting began.

Halle stars as diving instructor Sara, who faces the difficult decision of getting back into the water following a nearfatal great white shark attack.

However, while locals in the area have been more than welcoming to Halle and co-star Olivier Martinez, shark experts have criticised the film for giving great whites a bad name.

Alison Kock, a Save Our Seas Foundation shark conservationist near Simon’s Town, where the scenes were shot, explained: ‘After reading the script we decided it was not something we would like to put our names to.

“Our mandate is to try to change people’s perceptions of sharks. The first script that we got sounded very much like it had a thriller aspect to it and a personal kind of aspect to it as well.

“But fighting off a shark, or surviving a shark attack – we couldn’t see the positive side of that, as much as we tried.”

However, while Halle has had a mixed reception after her arrival, she is determined to make things right as she will be shooting the film in South Africa for the next three months.

— Daily Mail

TWEET ROMANCE: Eva Longoria and her hubby want the world to know they are all loved-up

After celebrating their three-year wedding anniversary abroad, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker returned to Los Angeles and showed once again why it’s lasted so long. They don’t have to rely on Eva’s cooking.

That and gloriously romantic evenings on the town.

The couple headed out for a Hollywood meal at sushi restaurant Katsuya last night. Eva, 35, was wearing black silk shorts and a grey ruffled camisole top while Tony, 28, was casual in jeans and a leather jacket. The passion and the red wine were flowing as the couple sent out respective Twit-pics of the love-fest. Tony happily pointed out that he was with his ‘wifey’ in his note.

Eva is not lagging behind in the cute pet name department either. She sent her picture out noting her ‘hubby’ and also called Parker ‘honey bunny’ in a note congratulating him on their anniversary. ‘3 years ‘ she noted on Twitter

— Daily Mail

LIFE IS NICE! HEIDI KLUM HAS A MUM’S DAY AT THE BEACH

‘Work hard, play hard’ seems to be Heidi Klum’s mantra in life.

The 37-year-old model-mum jetted out of New York this weekend and spent some quality ‘mummy and me’ time with her kids on a beach in Nice yesterday.

Heidi took Leni, 6, Henry, 4, Johan, 3 and ninemonth old Lou for a day at the seaside where they were seen playing in the sand and taking dips in the warm Mediterranean Sea.

Last week Heidi debuted the new season of Project Runway, the reality show in which young up-and-coming fashion designers compete for the chance to start their own line.

Heidi is both the host of the show and its executive producer.

The eighth season premiered on US television on Thursday night and the show was kicked off with a party at the Empire Hotel in New York.

Heidi has spent the past couple of months with her family in the Big Apple filming the show.

— Daily Mail