Avengers Doomsday – Halle Berry Teases ‘Wait and See’ About How She’d Update Storm

Halle Berry is not expected to appear as Storm in Avengers: Doomsday. That is the official, oft-repeated party line about the upcoming superhero event film. Nonetheless, it does seem a curious omission when so many other beloved actors from the original line of X-Men movies are expected to make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in the December release—including James Marsden, Ian McKellen, and Alan Cumming. In fact, the very appeal of reunions was in the air when we sat down with Berry and Chris Hemsworth to discuss their new film due out later this month, Crime 101.

“It’s fantastic,” Hemsworth says about sitting across from old pals like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. for the Avengers: Doomsday table read. “[There’s] the old guys like myself, the people who kind of kicked it off, and then new folks coming in. It’s just such a joy. It’s like a high school reunion in a way, catching up with old friends and new friends.”

Yet when we raise the prospect about Berry not being among those new friends, the Oscar-winning actress laughs, “Chris is going to fix that.” Her Crime 101 co-star seems more than game to entertain the possibility, agreeing, “I’m going to fix that.”

Whether that’s an actual tease of what to expect in Avengers: Doomsday or a bit of playful banter is not immediately clear. However, what is abundant is that Berry still has things she’d like to do with Storm, and she seems comfortable musing we might see them yet in the MCU. This includes the prospect of Storm getting a visual makeover that could be as colorful (and comic book-y) as Hugh Jackman and James Marsden’s new threads as Wolverine and Cyclops in MCU pictures.

“I think Storm could use some updating, change her [look] a little bit,” Berry says. But when pressed for details she simply adds, “I don’t know, you’re going to have to wait and see. But she should definitely up her game.”

Whether that game includes Avengers: Doomsday remains unknown, however that Marvel event stands in some ways as the culmination of an entire quarter-century’s worth of superhero movies. While the Marvel Studios brand already had a kind of crescendo seven years ago in Avengers: Endgame—the last time Hemsworth co-starred with Evans and Downey—Doomsday will be using the multiverse to not only merge the 2010s era of superhero movies with the current status quo of the MCU, but also presumably every previous era of Marvel movies. Hence the return of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men line-up from the 2000s.

In some ways it’s validation for the path Berry and her colleagues forged on that first X-Men 26 years ago, the first modern superhero movie. However, the star does not look back on it that way.

“I didn’t see it as a risk,” Berry says of the original X-Men. “Maybe I was ignorant to the situation, but I saw it as a wonderful opportunity. I was such a fan of X-Men and what the story was about, and what this mutant life [meant]. I related to that, growing up on the outside as a woman of color, so I didn’t see it as a risk. I saw it as a great way to help people understand the differences in each other.”

It’s a difference that will be explored further, including hopefully with Berry, in Doomsday and beyond. In the meantime, expect more of our conversation with Hemsworth and Berry ahead of Crime 101’s release on Friday, Feb. 13.