Little Nahla is looking more and more like her famous mother Halle Berry each day

My haven't you grown! Little Nahla is looking more and more like her famous mother Halle Berry each day

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 8:35 AM on 24th June 2011

Halle Berry's adorable daughter Nahla has clearly lucked out in the gene pool lottery.

The rapidly growing two-year-old toddler showed she is inheriting more and more of the good looks which made her 44-year-old mother an international movie star, as the pair shared lunch at Vito’s Pizza in Beverly Hills, yesterday.

Of course the fact Nahla's father is top male model Gabriel Aubrey may also have something to do with it too.

Mummy's girl: Halle Berry's two-year-old daughter Nahla is clearly inheriting her mother's good looks as the pair were spotted going for pizza in Beverly Hills yesterday

Mother and daughter wore matching denim shorts for their afternoon outing.

The Academy Award winning actress showed off her toned figure in the daisy dukes which she paired with a figure-hugging grey vest.

Little Nahla wore a pink embroidered tank top and matching sandals.

Halle is currently in a custody battle with Nahla’s father Gabriel, 34, as they both want full custody of their daughter.

Afternoon in the sun: The mother and daughter duo dressed in near matching daisy dukes for the warm weather

Halle and Gabriel split last April after spending just less than five years together as a couple.

Halle has claimed her daughter 'cries hysterically and throws tantrums, whenever her father picks the toddler up for visits', according to TMZ.

Earlier this year, the actress drew criticism after revealing that she believed her child was 'black', despite the fact Nahla is mixed race, and Aubrey is Caucasian.

She told Ebony magazine: ‘‘I feel she’s black. I’m black and I’m her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory.’

The ‘one-drop theory’ is a reference to laws passed in the American Deep South in the last century, which dictated that if a person had so much as ‘one drop’ of black blood, they could not be ­considered white.

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Halle Berry: 'Mother's Domestic Abuse Gave Me Low Self-Esteem'

Speaks out on violence...

By Alicia Adejobi on Tuesday 21st June 2011 Photo by A. Miller/WENN.com

Halle Berry has spoken out on the domestic abuse both she and her mother suffered, saying that it gave her low self-esteem.
The Oscar-winning actress explains how the violence has effected her and the men she has had relationships with. "When I was a girl and my mother had the s**t kicked out of her, her self-esteem moved onto me," Halle told an audience at the Mayor's Fund Benefit Dinner in New York City last week.
"I devalued myself and thought I wasn't worth it. I chose men that mimicked my father."
Halle then explains what made her "break the cycle" of choosing abusive men. "It was only when I was in an abusive relationship and blood squirted on the ceiling of my apartment and I lost 80% of hearing in my ear that I realised, I have to break the cycle."
While, Halle's ex-boyfriend Christopher Williams was initially accused of damaging the actress's eardrum, it was Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes who was outed as the abuser. These claims have never been confirmed.

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‘Cloud Atlas,’ the Ambitious Wachowski/Tykwer Collaboration, Eyeing October 2012 Release

Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by Russ Fischer

Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski are getting ready to turn David Mitchell‘s strange multi-narrative novel Cloud Atlas into a big-budget film. It will be shot entirely in and around Berlin, and is planned as the most expensive film ever to be financed in Germany, at about $100m.
The stellar cast includes Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent, each of whom will play multiple roles — as many as six each. We have pretty good ideas about some of the roles each actor will play, but have wondered quite a bit about how the script deals with the fact that the novel features six stories that take place in different time periods. Now David Mitchell offers some very slight clarification — or, for those who’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the adaptation, possibly some confirmation of the planned strategy.
Mr. Mitchell tells The GuardianThey aren’t attempting merely to film the book, which is why many adaptations come to grief – the novel’s already there, so why spend all that effort on an audiobook with visuals? Rather, the three directors have assembled Cloud Atlas and reassembled it in a form which – fingers crossed – will be a glorious, epic thing. The reincarnation motif in the book is just a hinted-at linking device, but the script gives it centre stage to link the six worlds with characters, causes and effects. A novel can’t do multi-role acting: a film can. The directors are playing to the strengths of their medium, just like I try to.
An adaptation that is free to play with the source material? Love it. And an author that endorses the approach? Even better! Right now, the idea is to shoot later this summer and release in October 2012, though that release date is hardly set in stone. Producer Stefan Arndt says Cloud Atlas will be “pure German film,” despite the fact that the dialogue will be in English.
Let’s recap info about the structure of the novel, to make clear why the film is a challenging adaptation:
Cloud Atlas is difficult to quickly summarize, as it is made up of six nested stories that take place in divergent locales and time periods and are written to emulate a variety of popular and literary styles. (Seafaring adventure, political thriller, dystopian sci-fi, post-apocalyptic fantasy, etc.) The first story is set in the mid-1800s, and the final one takes place hundreds of years in the future, when most civilization has been reduced to nothing.
The structure of the book is strange, too, and could be mapped out like so: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. You get the first half of the first story, which breaks off abruptly, then goes to the first half of the second, which references the first, and so forth until the sixth tale, which is presented in its entirety. Then the second half of the fifth tale takes place, and so forth until the novel ends with the completion of the first story.