Halle Berry Says Blake Lively Asked If She'd PlayX-MenRole inDeadpoolbut Ryan Reynolds 'Never' Called

Mar. 15, 2025

One other star almost joined the list ofcameos inDeadpool & Wolverine.

Halle BerrytoldComicbook.comon Monday, Aug. 12, thatBlake Livelyinquired about Berry, 57, joining Reynolds’ latestDeadpoolinstallment 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.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on July 22, 2024 in New York City.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Berry starred as the Marvel superhero who has the ability to control the weather with her mind inX-Menin 2000,X2in 2003,X-Men: The Last Standin 2006 andX-Men: Days of Future Pastin 2014.

If Berry had joined the cast, she would have reprised her role alongside her formerX-MencostarHugh Jackman, who starred as Logan Howlett/Wolverine.

She would have shared the screen with other Marvel stars, includingChris Evans,Jennifer Garner,Wesley Snipesand Dafne Keen, who also made surprise cameos as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Elektra,Bladeand X-23, respectively. She would have also joined Channing Tatum, who starred asGambit/Remy LeBeau, and Lively, 36, who playedLady Deadpool.

Since the film’s July 26 premiere, various actors have spoken about their cameos.

Snipes, 61, toldEntertainment Weeklythat 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 [theBladefranchise].”

“I did not think it was possible,” Snipes continued. “I didn’t think we would be ableto 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,’ " theDemolition Manstar added. “He told me the idea… They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s a go.’ ‘If you’re in, we’re in.’ Here we are.”

Lady Deadpool in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.Marvel

Marvel

Tatum, 44, thanked Reynoldsfor 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,” theMagic Mikestar 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 Levyfor 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.”

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Deadpool & Wolverineis now in theaters.

source: people.com