The will-she/won’t-she game continues. Press tours are built on safe answers. But Halle Berry had immense fun with it this week, taking a sip of coffee, staring into the middle distance, pretending like she hadn’t heard the question, and the whole thing tilted into a bit about how Marvel secrecy is basically its own genre.
That’s the gist of what happened this week on The Playlist’s Discourse podcast, where co-stars Berry and Chris Hemsworth—both Marvel vets—dodged MCU bait and then joked their way into a crossover premise that sounded like pure fan-service until it broke down into pure laughs.
At the end of the conversation about the upcoming Amazon MGM heist thriller, “Crime 101,” directed by Bart Layton and coming out February 13, The Discourse host—even knowing he wouldn’t get too far— ventured into the eventual questions about “Avengers: Doomsday” which turned into a quick ping pong back and forth of questions, answers, retorts and f*cking around.
DeAngelo had tossed out the usual MCU chum—though noted that when he talked to Famke Janssen, who plays Jean Grey in the “X-Men” films, recently, the actress said she wasn’t in “Avengers Doomsday.” Berry and Chris Hemsworth had responded the only sane way: by turning the non-answer into a joke. “What did Famke say “? Berry asked, almost as if she were hedging a bet with an answer. “What was the question?” Hemsworth giggled, and then he basically admitted the whole exercise was pointless anyway. “Even if we said yes, you wouldn’t believe us,” he said.
That opened the door to the fun hypothetical. “I play Storm!” Hemsworth joked, and Berry immediately ran with it: “We have decided Thor and Storm need to get together and just do something,” she said. Hemsworth dubbed it a “Lightning fight. There’d be a certain alchemy that would occur, wouldn’t it?,” then pitched the extremes—“It would be either two negatives or two positives. We would cancel each other out, or it would just be a match made in heaven,” he said playfully.
Berry suggested a harmonious collaboration, and Hemsworth continued to riff, “We would just take on the world. I’d finally have someone who understood weather patterns and how to manipulate storms,” he laughed.
From there, their riff kept snowballing. Berry went straight to the consequence: “We would just be too much for the world, actually. It would just be too much,” she said. Hemsworth agreed the opposition wouldn’t hold: “There’d be no villain that would be formidable enough for us,” he said. “The franchise would be over,” Berry laughed.
The moral of the story: go fishing for MCU news, and you’re probably going to get skunked. As for the conventional fan wish-fulfillment, is she lying, hinting, telling the truth, or more? That’s on you to speculate. More from this interview soon. — Additional reporting by Mike DeAngelo.
