Benicio says Halle is "generous" on the set. "Available, from actor to actor, to give," he says. "[She is] there for the other person, or for the other actors."

Halle says Benicio, for all his brooding reputation, is the comic relief on set. "When you work on a movie that has the gravity of this movie, you need someone to lighten it up," she says. "He had a wonderful way of just making us all smile or finding the light touch in every scene, because every scene can't be heavy and downtrodden."

"I tell you, it is worth seeing just to see the two of you on screen together," Oprah says.