The premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine brought many cameos to the big screen as a pleasant surprise for superhero movie fans. However, there was one character from the comics X-Men Could have made a special appearance, but dropped out of the film.
According to Halle Berry's latest statements to ComicBook.com, she was set to reprise her role. Storm In the new movie of Dishonored Mercenary. However, he did not receive a formal invitation to participate in the project.
Perry as the mutant Ororo Monroe In four films X-Men He claimed that between 2000 and 2014, he had conversations with Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds' wife. Actress in said dialogue Gossip girl I told him the idea of the cameo.
“Blake asked me once – I ran into her at the Marc Jacobs fashion show – and she said: 'Would you ever be the storm in my husband's picture?' I told him: 'Yes, if he asks me', but he didn't ask meHe clarified in an interview about his next film for Netflix. union.
The actress participated in it X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men 3: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: The Future of the Past (2014), and shared the screen Hugh Jackman Like Wolverine. Despite this long career in the franchise, Perry was not included in the cast Deadpool & Wolverine.
The third installment of the Deadpool franchise was a hit at the box office and reunited audiences with actors who previously played Marvel characters in Fox productions.
This includes Jennifer Garner Like Electra, Wesley Snipes Blade-like, and Chris EvansSurprisingly not as Captain America, but as Johnny Storm from the early 2000s “Fantastic Four” films.
The film also includes cameos by Tyler Mane Sabretooth and Aaron Stanford as Pyro, both characters from the original X-Men films. Even Channing Tatum, who dreamed of playing Gambit on the big screen, achieved his goal in a small scene.
In that way, the director of the film, Shawn LevyThe professor had previously hinted at the return of certain characters Patrick Stewart, It was never considered or discussed during development. However, he made no specific comments about Storm's absence or the possibility of Perry reprising his role.
Perry's relationship with the franchise, on the other hand X-Men It was complicated. In earlier interviews, the actress described having strong differences with the director while shooting the first films Brian is the singer.
“He was not an easy guy to work with. I got very angry with him. “I got into a few fights with him and I said some swear words out of pure frustration,” he explained in a past interview. Variety.
“Sometimes he doesn't feel like he's present. We're freezing our asses off in sub-zero temperatures on our little 'X-Men' set in Banff, Canada, and he's not paying attention. We're freezing. [En ese contexto] “Anyone can get a little angry,” he said.
This is not the only tense incident between production executives and the actress over her role in the franchise. Last year, the director Matthew Vaughanwho was to run X-Men 3After discovering a plot by a studio executive, he wanted to trick Perry into playing Storm again.
According to Vaughn, he was shown a script that included a powerful scene for Storm in Africa, which was discovered to be a ruse to get Perry to sign the contract and later scrap it. “I thought, if they're going to play Storm with an Oscar-winning actress, I'm out.Van said.