halle berry He was allegedly tricked into appearing in an “X-Men” movie through a bait-and-switch scheme, claims a director who briefly worked on the project.
Matthew Vaughn Famous for directing the films “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman,” he actually went on to direct “X-Men: First Class” a few years after the incident, and he told this story: Ta. THR …To elaborate on what he said, he ended up leaving X-Men: The Last Stand in the mid-2000s.
To make a long story short…Vaughn was hired to direct the second sequel, but for a while — even though Halle wasn’t actually signed on yet… hugh jackman And other major actors will also be returning. MV claims that during pre-production, they discovered the duplicity at work from studio heads.
Bourne explains…He says he went to an executive’s office and looked at the new “X3” script and noticed that it was noticeably thicker. When he asked what it was, he claims the executive told him not to worry, but Vaughn insisted and read on…to the point where an entire scene about Halle’s character, Storm, had been added. I then noticed that they added a scene where she helps starving children. She uses her superpowers in Africa.
Naturally, Vaughn asked what this was all about, and pointed out that this was not the version of the script he ran. He claims the response he received forced him to post bail.
Vaughn says, “”[I went,] ‘What is this? ‘ [They said,] I said, “Oh, it’s a Halle Berry script.” I said, “Okay, she hasn’t signed up yet.” “But if this is what she wants and she signs up, we’ll trash it.” In other words, they pretended to include the scene Halle wanted, then scrapped it completely. I had her sign on the dotted line as I was going to do it.
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Vaughn says he got fed up with this and said… So at that point he quit. ”
Although he doesn’t name names here, the story is troubling — especially considering Halle was actually in the film — and the storm scene depicted is nowhere to be found.
We reached out to Halle’s team for comment, but have not heard back so far.
