Halle Berry has claimed that Blake Lively wanted her to reprise her role of Storm from X-Men in the newly-released Deadpool & Wolverine film - but Ryan Reynolds failed to ask.
via: EW
On a red carpet premiere for her new Netflix buddy comedy The Union, Berry revealed to ComicBook whether she'd been ask to reprise her iconic role as Ororo Munroe, better known as Storm, in the Marvel cameo-packed Deadpool & Wolverine.
"No," she replied. Berry added that star Ryan Reynolds' wife Blake Lively, who herself cameos incognito as Lady Deadpool, "asked me one time." The Oscar winner explained that she ran into Lively at a Marc Jacobs fashion show, where she says Lively "asked if (I) would 'ever be in my husband's movie as Storm?' I said, 'Yeah, if he asked me,' but he never asked me."
Representatives for Berry, Reynolds, Lively, and Disney (Marvel's parent company) didn't immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.
It's surprising that Reynolds, who also helped produce and co-wrote the film, wouldn't call on Berry. She's one of the biggest stars to ever don a super suit for the X-Men films, her character had an involved personal relationship with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, which could have been tapped for added dramatic tension, and seemed entirely willing to take the plunge.
Alas, Storm-chasers will have to content themselves to Berry's four film appearances, in the original X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). The character was killed in the final film, but quickly revived by Patrick Stewart's Professor X. There was speculation of a young Storm prequel film featuring Lupita N'Yongo for some time, but like Channing Tatum's shelved Gambit prequel, nothing materialized.
Unlike Berry, Tatum does make a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine, despite never actually appearing in a single minute in any MCU film as the Cajun card player. A veritable murderer's row of heroes and villains from the MCU's past (and possible future) joined him in the battle between the titular suited supers and the villainous forces of Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).
Chris Hemsworth briefly appears as Thor and Henry Cavill shows up as a Wolverine variant alongside Matthew McConaughey's Deadpool cowboy variant. Chris Evans teases a Captain America appearance before revealing he's actually returned as Johnny Storm from the 2000s Fantastic Four films. Jennifer Garner joins the good guys as Elektra alongside Wesley Snipes' Blade, and a there are tons of brief cameos of fan-favorite characters, from X-Men's Toad to X2's Lady Deathstrike and The Last Stand's Callisto.
That a minor (though memorable!) character like Callisto would return and not the superstar who killed her, Storm, is a bit surprising. But Berry's film and television career is doing just fine, Storm or no Storm.
Recently she celebrated the 20th anniversary of one of the most misunderstood blockbusters of the first decade of the new millennium, Catwoman. "You can never take away my Oscar," Berry told EW, "no matter how bad you bash me! If you say I earned it, I’ll take this, too."
I remember hearing rumors that Halle and James Marsden filmed cameos for Deadpool and Wolverine (reprising their roles as Storm and Cyclops, respectively), but I guess those rumors were just that.
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