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2. Halle Berry Was Lured In With A Fake Script - X-Men: The Last Stand
While X-Men fans fully expected Halle Berry to return for the third X-Men movie, it certainly wasn't a sure thing during development, with Matthew Vaughn recently revealing in an interview at New York City Comic-Con that the actress was ultimately duped into appearing in the threequel.
When Vaughn was circling the director's chair for the movie, he visited a Fox executive's office and saw a script for X-Men 3, which began with Berry's Storm creating a thunderstorm to save African children from dying of thirst.
Vaughn, intrigued, asked the executive about the script and was told that this was actually the "Halle Berry script" - effectively a dummy script created to entice Berry to sign onto the movie, after which it would be tossed in the bin.
And evidently, that's precisely what happened, as X-Men: The Last Stand featured no such scene set in Africa, but it came at the cost of losing Vaughn as director, who said:
"I thought, if you're going to do that to an Oscar-winning actress who plays Storm, I quit."
Berry hasn't ever spoken publicly about the matter, but it's fair to assume she wasn't at all happy about the studio taking such calculated measures to secure her involvement.