Berry reveals Lively asked her about reprising Storm when they spoke at a fashion show
One other star almost joined the list of cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Halle Berry told Comicbook.com on Monday, Aug. 12, that Blake Lively inquired about Berry, 57, joining Reynolds’ latest Deadpool installment as her X-Men character, Ororo Munroe/Storm.
“Blake asked me one time, 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, ‘Yeah, if he asked me,’ but he never asked me,” she told the outlet.
Reynolds, 47, served as the film’s star, co-writer and producer. Shawn Levy directed and also worked on the script with Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Zeb Wells.
Berry starred as the Marvel superhero who has the ability to control the weather with her mind in X-Men in 2000, X2 in 2003, X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 and X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014.
If Berry had joined the cast, she would have reprised her role alongside her former X-Men costar Hugh Jackman, who starred as Logan Howlett/Wolverine.
She would have shared the screen with other Marvel stars, including Chris Evans, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes and Dafne Keen, who also made surprise cameos as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Elektra, Blade and X-23, respectively. She would have also joined Channing Tatum, who starred as Gambit/Remy LeBeau, and Lively, 36, who played Lady Deadpool.
Since the film’s July 26 premiere, various actors have spoken about their cameos.
Snipes, 61, told Entertainment Weekly that although he “had very interesting conversations, some of them very substantive and some of them not,” about reprising Blade, he “resided” to the idea of “moving on from [the Blade franchise].”
“I did not think it was possible,” Snipes continued. “I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off. I didn’t think that Marvel was into it, Disney was into it.”
“I thought it didn’t make sense to me, but [when] you get a call from Ryan Reynolds out of the blue after 20 years, you go, ‘Okay, I got to take this call. Let’s see what this is about,’ ” the Demolition Man star added. “He told me the idea… They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s a go.’ ‘If you’re in, we’re in.’ Here we are.”
Tatum, 44, thanked Reynolds for supporting his efforts to bring Gambit/Remy LeBeau to the silver screen.
“I thought I had lost Gambit forever. But he fought for me and Gambit,” the Magic Mike star shared. “I will owe him probably forever. ‘Cause I’m not sure how I could ever do something that would be equal to what this has meant to me.”
Meanwhile, Evans, 43, thanked Reynolds, Jackman and Levy for including him in the movie in an Instagram Stories post.
“[Reynolds, Jackman and Levy] are three of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet,” Evans wrote. “Special thank you to Ryan for making it all happen. Playing Johnny again was a dream come true and he’ll always have a special place in my heart.”
Source people.com
