Halle Berry Threatened To Quit X-Men “For The Fans”

Well, wasn’t that nice of her! All that talk about playing a superhero being beneath her and not worthy of an actress of her caliber was all a ploy to get Storm a more meaningful role so the fans would be satisfied! Personally, I don’t care why she complained, but let’s not try to insult peoples’ intelligence – it was about money and ego, and that’s cool! We’d all be annoyed too if we were the big name actor that got shunted off to the side in the peak of our career while some semi-names got all the screentime.

“I threatened all that, but I didn’t really mean it,” Berry says with a sly grin on the release of X-Men: The Last Stand.

“I just wanted, not more screen time, but if I’m going to be on for five minutes, I say something meaningful for five minutes. Not just, ‘C’mon kids, let’s go fly that plane!’

“The fans told me for four years straight that they wanted more of her, and I took the heat for that demand.”

In this case, the squeaky wheel did get the grease. Not only is Storm a stand-out character, but in an early scene of this ostensibly final instalment of the X-Men Trilogy, X-Men leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) takes Storm aside and tells her she’s in line to inherit his post as head of Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters should anything happen to him.



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5 Responses to Halle Berry Threatened To Quit X-Men “For The Fans”
  1. Stevie
    May 28, 2006 | 2:15 pm

    Am I the only one who hates THE BERRY?

    Who the hell does she think she is?

    The X-men is an ensemble book, it’s not the Storm and her Uncanny Friends Show!!!
    I’d understand it if she’d ever even seen an x-men comic in her life… which you know she hasn’t!
    And she understood who Storm was and what she was to the X-men… but she doesn’t.

    “My Movie… mine mine mine!”

    GAH I hate her so much, in fact I wish they’d called her Bluff replaced her with a differnt X-man. There are enough to choose from!

    She should go on the “Have nothing to do with comics ever again” list with Joel Schumacher!

  2. Ian
    June 7, 2006 | 8:28 am

    No, she annoys me too. More so after her spoiled brat routine. They should have written Storm out of the story or hired a lookalike. Her looks are pretty generic.

    She also showed how weak she is in the role once she was given more screen time.

  3. T Unit
    June 7, 2006 | 9:35 am

    They should have had Storm run someone over in X3.

  4. Daniel Brooks
    June 7, 2006 | 1:03 pm

    They played her Oscar acceptance speech on Opie and Anthony this morning…good grief.

  5. Shaquille
    October 4, 2006 | 1:05 pm

    Well shes good at bein storm and if we dont have her then who would be the next storm think…..well i love halle i think shes a great actor i give her a thumbs up

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