Halle Berry
Steve Granitz/FilmMagicDeadpool and Wolverine narrowly missed another X-cellent cameo.
Halle Berry revealed in an interview with Comic book That Blake Lively once approached her about her role as X Men favorite Storm (aka Ororo Munroe), but Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynoldsdidn’t follow her. (Reynolds also wrote and co-produced the film.)
“No,” Berry, 58, replied when asked if she was ever in talks to join the Marvel film’s cameo roster.
“Blake asked me once,” Berry told ComicBook at the premiere of her new Netflix film, The Unionon Monday, August 12. “I ran into her at a Marc Jacobs fashion show and she said, ‘Would you ever be in my husband’s movie as Storm?’ I said, ‘Yes, if he asked me,’ but he never asked me.
Berry played Storm in several X Men movies included Hugh Jackmanwho reprises his role as Wolverine in the new Marvel blockbuster.
The film serves as a love letter of sorts to 20th Century Fox’s Marvel films released between 2000 and 2019 – starting with X Men – and features cameos from other superheroes from the pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe era.
Chris Evans reprises his role as Johnny Storm/Human Torch from Fox’s 2005 Fantastic four film, Jennifer Garner reprises her role as Elektra Daredevil, Wesley Snipes appears as Blade, and Dafne Keen appears as Laura/X-23 off Logan. Channing Tatum also makes a cameo as X Men character Gambit, who he had long been attached to star in a film before Disney acquired Fox and scrapped the project.
“This isn’t just Deadpool saying ‘Oh, hello’ to the MCU. It’s Deadpool – and Hugh, [director Shawn Levy] and me – saying goodbye to a place and an era that literally made us,” Reynolds shared via Instagram in July. “We are forever grateful for the fun, weird, uneven and risky world of 20th Century Fox. It was our origin story and we wouldn’t trade it for anything. And thank you to Kevin Feige and Disney for letting us share it.”
Berry, meanwhile, has spoken about her desire to reprise her role as Storm in the past.
“I would absolutely return there again. It is a beloved character,” said the Oscar winner Vanity fair in 2021. “I loved playing Storm and people love Storm. So I would absolutely, you know, if we could find a version that would make sense or a storyline that would make sense, then I would definitely do that.
