Halle Berry Says Blake Lively Asked If She'd Play X-Men Role in Deadpool but Ryan Reynolds 'Never' Called

Another star almost joined the list of cameos Deadpool & Wolverine.

Halle Berry told Comicbook.com on Monday, Aug. 12, that Blake Lively has inquired about Berry, 57, joining Reynolds’ latest Deadpool sequel as her X-Men character, Ororo Munroe/Storm.

“Blake once asked me, I ran into her at the Marc Jacobs fashion show, and she said, ‘Would you ever be in my husband’s movie as Storm?’ I said, ‘Yes, if he asked me,’ but he never asked me,” she told the newspaper.

Reynolds, 47, was the film’s star, co-writer and producer. Shawn Levy directed and also worked on the screenplay with Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Zeb Wells.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on July 22, 2024 in New York.

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Berry played a Marvel superhero who has the ability to control time with her mind The X-Men in 2000, X2 in 2003, X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 and X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014.

Had Berry joined the cast, she would have reprised her role alongside her ex The X-Men costar Hugh Jackman, who played Logan Howlett/Wolverine.

She would share 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. She would also join Channing Tatum, who played Gambit/Remy LeBeau, and Lively, 36, who played Lady Deadpool.

Halle Berry as Storm.

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Since the film premiered on July 26, various actors have spoken about their cameo roles.

Snipes, 61, said Entertainment Weekly that while he “had very interesting conversations, some of them very meaningful and some of them not,” about recasting Blade, he “dwelled” on the idea of ​​”going from [the Blade franchise].”

“I didn’t think it was possible,” Snipes continued. “I didn’t think we were going to be able to pull it off. I didn’t think Marvel was in it, Disney.”

“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’re like, ‘Okay, I’ve got to take this call. Let’s see what it’s all about’,” the Demolition man star added. “He told me the idea… They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s going.’ ‘If you’re for it, we’re for it.’ Here we are.”

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are the first married couple to top the list since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore in 1990.

Lady Deadpool in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.

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Tatum, 44, thanked Reynolds for supporting his efforts to bring Gambit/Remy LeBeau to the big screen.

“I thought I lost Gambit forever. But he fought for me and Gambit,” he said Magic Mike the star divides. “I’ll probably owe him forever. Because I’m not sure I could ever do anything to match what this has meant to me.”

Meanwhile, Evans, 43, thanked Reynolds, Jackman and Levy for including him in the film in an Instagram Stories post.

“[Reynolds, Jackman and Levy] are three of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet,” Evans wrote. “Special thanks to Ryan for making it all happen. Playing Johnny again was a dream come true and he will always have a special place in my heart.”

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