DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: Halle Berry Talks Not Returning As Storm; Aaron Stanford Reveals Pyro Variant Identity

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: Halle Berry Talks Not Returning As Storm; Aaron Stanford Reveals Pyro Variant Identity

X-Men star Halle Berry has confirmed she wasn't asked to reprise the role of Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine, while Pyro actor Aaron Stanford weighs in on which Variant he was playing and Chris Evans' cameo.

By JoshWilding - Aug 13, 2024 04:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

While Deadpool & Wolverine featured plenty of memorable cameos, we know many of you were shocked that the X-Men didn't factor into the movie. We can only assume Marvel Studios is saving them for Avengers: Doomsday and an eventual Incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-100005.

Talking to ComicBook.com, iconic Storm actress Halle Berry recently confirmed she would have reprised the role for the R-Rated threequel...but was never asked! 

Admitting there were never any discussions with Marvel Studios, she said, "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 [Ryan Reynolds] asked me,' but he never asked me." 

While the X-Men were M.I.A., one of Deadpool & Wolverine's biggest connections to the X-Men franchise's past was the return of X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand star Aaron Stanford as Pyro. The actor was a member of Cassandra Nova's army in The Void and, in a separate interview with the site, confirmed he was playing the same Variant from those movies. 

"I just took it as a continuation but again, with an adjustment for tone. Basically what I did was reach back and think this was the Pyro from X-Men 2," he explains. "The idea behind that character was that he was a young, disaffected, and outcast kid who becomes radicalized. He becomes a radicalized terrorist and we see that journey."

"I took that interesting, complete portrait and then adjusted it for the Deadpool universe and the given circumstances of that world."

Stanford was also quizzed on sharing the screen with Chris Evans' Human Torch. The cameo didn't leak online, despite us seeing those Void scenes (including Sabretooth's beheading) in set photos, and the actor explained why; as luck would have it, the paparazzi just wasn't there that day!

"I think the reason you didn't see Chris in that scene is that because that particular scene was split up pre-strike and post-strike, so we were in there shooting that scene the very first day I worked and that was the day Chris worked," he revealed. "We all went for however many months it took to settle the strike, and when we came back we shot the backend of that sequence."

"That was the day the paparazzi showed up and Chris wasn't there."

Marvel Studios did a good job of keeping spoilers under wraps; after all, only Pyro, Sabretooth, Nicepool, and Dogpool were spotted on set alongside the title characters. 

Deadpool & Wolverine is now playing in theaters.

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JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 8/13/2024, 5:05 AM
Awww Blake laying the groundwork just in case Ryan comes asking.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 8/13/2024, 5:10 AM
So he was there....😉
MG0019
MG0019 - 8/13/2024, 8:56 AM
@ProfessorWhy - Nooo, you see: they completely digitized the actor in post, using deepfake technology on top of an entirely cgi character and then used AI to reprocess the whole thing again while no one was looking, and then they used the same technique to create hundreds of behind the scene photos and false memories in the people who actually made the movie, so that they all believed any of them were actually on a set when in REALITY nobody was there and the entire movie is a CGI AI Overlay! All to cover up the fact that the earth is taco shaped, of course!

😏
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 8/13/2024, 5:24 AM
They will either have the OG X-Men cast (who haven’t appeared) show up in Secret Wars for a cameo, or it simply would have been too expensive and for not a lucrative enough effort to appear in Deadpool & Wolverine - Reynolds’s already explained why any number of other people didn’t appear.
LSHF
LSHF - 8/13/2024, 5:28 AM
Maybe they decided she was too powerful for that battle. They have to choose the players of these fights carefully.
CerealKiller1
CerealKiller1 - 8/13/2024, 8:16 AM
@LSHF - I was thinking about that, maybe they could’ve played with their not being any ‘weather’ in the void and she’s unable to use her powers?
LSHF
LSHF - 8/13/2024, 10:31 AM
@CerealKiller1 - That's a good angle.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 8/13/2024, 6:34 AM
While I was glad to see Pyro back, they kinda wasted him.
He has the one cool scene of stripping away Torch's flames and then he never really uses his powers after.
I still can't get past him shooting Cassandra instead of doing some Pyro shit
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 8/13/2024, 6:35 AM
He did her a solid. She only would have given more alimony to her ex husbands...


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lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 8/13/2024, 6:49 AM
Finally saw this yesterday. It was pretty good, but didn't think it met the awesome standard of Avengers 3, Winter Soldier, or Civil War.
I felt like Marvel was trying to prove they could do an R-Rated film too much. The violence was great but it gets kinda old hearing the F-Word every other line.
My fav was Electra, Gambit, especially Blade, and X-23's attack to get DP&W out of the void. That fight was just awesome.
gambgel
gambgel - 8/13/2024, 9:28 AM
Taking into account the Void just had variants rejected from their universes, it makes sense that the official X-Men from Fox werent a part of that.
They could have appeared on the final act in Deadpools timeline, but my guess is Feige is saving them for their big return in Secret Wars (since doing it twice on Deadpool & Wolverine and Secret Wars wouldnt have the same impact, I get it)

Still annoyed with just seeing Wolverine shining/getting all the spotlight over and over while the rest of the X-Men gotta keep waiting. So tired and frustrating at this point. And unfair to the fans of all the other X-Men too.
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 8/13/2024, 10:00 PM
On one hand, I wish that the rumors of her and the others returning were true, but on the other hand, Secret Wars might be a better place for them.
abd00bie
abd00bie - 8/14/2024, 4:49 AM
@WeaponXCII - Legit. The ending of DoFP was the perfect set up then we got.. X-Men: Apocalypse with the less desirable cast :(
NegativeNerd
NegativeNerd - 8/14/2024, 12:42 PM
I think bringing her and the other X-Men back at one point was discussed, but things changed. Hopefully, Thor 5 becomes "Thor & Deadpool". We can get a Thor Corps and I can see Halle Berry returning as Storm.

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