Halle Berry Makes Bold Claim About Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

As moviegoers who have already seen Deadpool & Wolverine know, the star-studded film was chock-full of cameos that tied into the Marvel Universe’s past.

While many of the actors and actresses who have played fan-favorite Marvel characters were involved in the film, Halle Berry said she was never formally approached about reviving Storm, the character she played in the X-Men movie series. Meanwhile, Hugh Jackman, who starred alongside Berry in the series, revived his Wolverine character for the new film alongside Ryan Reynolds, who played Deadpool.

Berry, 58, addressed queries about the latest Deadpool film while walking the red carpet at a premiere for her own new movie, Netflix’s The Union, in Los Angeles, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 12. According to the Academy Award winner, Reynolds’ wife, fellow actress Blake Lively, once floated the idea of Berry revisiting the Storm character, but nothing ever came of it.

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“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?’” Berry recalled while speaking with ComicBook at the premiere.

The Catwoman star recalled being open to the idea. “I said, 'Yeah, if he asked me,' but he never asked me,” she said of Reynolds.

While Reynolds and Jackman co-starred in the new Deadpool & Wolverine released last month, the film also brought in Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Chris Evans and Dafne Keen to reprise the roles they held in prior Marvel movies. Even Channing Tatum, who was once in talks to star in a movie focused on the Marvel superhero Gambit, was in the mix to finally bring his character to the big screen in Deadpool & Wolverine. Lively, 36, also had a cameo in the film as Lady Deadpool.

The hype surrounding the movie and fan enthusiasm for Reynolds’ Deadpool has made the film a success at the box office. The film earned $1 billion worldwide less than a month after its release, becoming the second film to reach that milestone in 2024 after Inside Out 2.

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