Halle Berry Says Blake Lively Asked if She’d Reprise Storm in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine.’ She Answered ‘Yes’ as Long as Ryan Reynolds Called: ‘But He Never Asked Me’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is now playing in theaters Halle Berry revealed in a recent interview with ComicBook.com while promoting her upcoming Netflix movie “The Union” that she was never asked by Ryan Reynolds to reprise her “X-Men” movie role of Storm in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The record-breaking Marvel blockbuster featured the surprise returns of several heroes from Fox’s Marvel era, from Jennifer Garner’s Elektra to Wesley Snipes’ Blade. “No,” Berry said when asked if there were talks about playing Storm again in the latest Marvel movie. “Blake [Lively] 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.” Berry played Storm opposite Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in four “X-Men” movies: 2000’s “X-Men,” 2003’s “X2: X-Men United,” 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” and 2014’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” A couple of characters from these movies popped up in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” including Tyler Mane as Sabretooth and Aaron Stanford as Pyro.

Berry’s Storm was not included, nor was Patrick Stewart’s Charles Xavier. The film’s director, Shawn Levy, previously said Stewart’s return was never considered or discussed during development.