X-Men Star Halle Berry Doubles Down on Not Showing Up in Avengers: Doomsday, but Suggests She Could Still Reprise Storm for Secret Wars

X-Men histrion Halle Berry is adamant she won't beryllium reprising her relation arsenic Storm successful Avengers: Doomsday, but has near the doorway unfastened to a instrumentality successful aboriginal — perchance successful the consequent Avengers: Secret Wars.

Marvel fans person been anxious to spot Berry instrumentality successful her relation from the 2000s X-Men films alongside different classical characters who are backmost for Doomsday — but the histrion has present made a constituent of doubling down that she's "not there."

“Storm’s not there,” Berry told Variety this week astatine the premiere of her caller movie Crime 101 successful Los Angeles. “I committedness you. You each deliberation I’m being coy and I’m being silly, but I’m not there.”

Interestingly enough, this isn’t the archetypal clip this period Berry has spoken astir the anticipation that she’ll look successful Doomsday. Last week, she had a chat with ScreenRant during which she opened up much astir Storm and the film. “Storm is simply a precise peculiar quality to me. I've been truthful blessed erstwhile I gotten to play her," she explained.

“[Those movies] person truthful overmuch to accidental that I thought has been truly important, particularly for my children arsenic they've grown. So they're beloved,” she added, earlier dropping what fans anticipation could beryllium a large hint. “And portion I'm bittersweet I won't beryllium successful Doomsday this round, determination are different rounds. And I would bash that successful a heartbeat."

There is, of course, inactive the anticipation that Berry is being exceptionally bully astatine staying tight-lipped astir her engagement and that her Storm volition extremity up gracing our screens on with the remainder of Doomsday’s monolithic and breathtaking cast. But considering however agelong she’s been effusive astir not joining the fray, the chances are beauteous debased astatine this point. Time to reset our hopes for Secret Wars, then?

Berry archetypal revealed to fans she would not beryllium appearing successful Avengers: Doomsday backmost successful April 2025, erstwhile Black Girl Nerds told the histrion connected the reddish carpet astatine CinemaCon that fans were waiting for her to amusement up successful the adjacent large Avengers entry. Her response? “Keep waiting. Not gonna beryllium there.”

Avengers: Doomsday is acceptable to get successful theaters connected December 18… without Berry, arsenic acold arsenic we know.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.