Halle Out, Jessica In X3?

Halle Storms Off

from Handbag.com



Halle Berry will not be back for a third X-Men movie because her character, Storm, isn't going to be in it enough. The sexy star apparently sees no reason to go back to playing the sidekick when she's just played the superhero star in Batman spin-off Catwoman. "Halle was ready to do X-Men 3, but only if Storm was given more storyline," says our source. "But the studio sees the third movie as a means to wrap up the trilogy, and that means Storm won't be featured more than Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. Halle has now passed on the third movie because she's not into bit-parts. She's an Oscar winner and she wants roles that test her." Producers are now looking to singer and actress Christina Milian as a possible replacement.


Newleyweds' Jessica To Dazzle in X-Men 3?

from Cinescape.com



It all began last week with Dark Horizons. A week ago the Australian-based film website published a rumor that singer and emerging actress Jessica Simpson had sent off an audition tape to the producers of X-Men 3, in the hopes that a role could be created for her in the film - specifically, as the mutant singer called Dazzler. The story is credited by Horizons as first appearing in "local news outlets of Spokane, Washington."

And a week later Dark Horizons story has landed in The Irish Examiner. That paper now reports the Simpson/X-Men 3 rumor - except they say she has "landed" a role in X3. Quoting a source, the paper reports "They will possibly give her a small role in X-Men 3 as a lounge-singer to introduce the character of Dazzler."