Halle Berry Promises "Shocking" Revelation About Storm In X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Talking lengthily about returning as Ororo Munroe in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Halle Berry explains how her pregnancy reduced her role, how Bryan Singer differs from Brett Ratner and much more!
Total Film magazine sat down with Halle Berry recently for a lengthy Q&A about her career and, more importantly, her role as Ororo Munroe aka Storm in X-Men: Days of Future Past. When asked how different is the experience of Bryan Singer's "in-between-quel" and Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand, the Oscar-winning actress says, "They're like apples and oranges, they could not be more different. That's for sure. The way they work is different. What you feel is different... Not that one is better or worse - they're just very different. I was so happy to work with Bryan [Singer] again and I think it was nice for everyone to get back together. I wasn't in as much as I was meant to be though," Halle adds, referring to her pregnancy. "That kind of coloured what my involvement could be, which was why I was one of the first ones in and the first ones out," she says. "My ever-growing belly was posing a constant challenge! What I could do was getting more limited so the role that I play is so different from what it could have been, due to my surprise pregnancy. But there's something very revealing and shocking about Storm in this movie that I thought was needed. There are some things you find out about her that I think give you much more insight into who she is." Furthermore, Berry says X-Men: Days of Future Past feels much bigger than the previous installments. "I think it's big because there are so many X-Men in the movie," she said. "There's the young X-Men and there's the X-Men that started it all off. Just so many X-Men! You're gonna get to see some more than other, but they're all there. I think that adds to the bigness of it. The concept of the movie is pretty big too. The urgency is more important this time round. The threat is greater too."
Anyhow, X-Men: Days of Future Past is currently filming, and stars Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart, Michael Fassbender,, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult, Omar Sy, Peter Dinklage, Halle Berry, Adan Canto, Fan Bingbing, Anna Paquin, Evan Peters, Daniel Cudmore, Ellen Page and Booboo Stewart. Bryan Singer directs the film in theaters on May 23, 2014!