Alexandra Shipp’s Advice For X-Men’s Next Storm Under Marvel Studios: ‘Make It Your Own’

Alexandra Shipp portrayed Storm across the films in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. Speaking with Perri Nemiroff for Collider, she was asked if she has any advice for the next actor to portray the role; this time under Marvel Studios.

“You have to make it your own, she said “I think a lot of the time, people want to compare performances. They want to compare how Halle did her Storm, to my Storm, or any other character, really. I don’t think that is fair to the actor, and I don’t think that’s fair to the audience. I think it’s making that role your own, finding ways in which you can be an individual, and allowing that to form. Because my Storm much younger, and not trained,” she continued. “So she was coming from the streets in [X-Men] Apocalypse. So for me, I really wanted her to be a street fighter, and we brought a lot of that into her fight style and the way that she flew. So I would just say, make it your own.”

As Shipp mentioned, she portrayed a specific version of Storm, as did Halle Berry. Is there a part of Storm’s background she’d like to see explored in the next iteration?

“I would love to see Storm after her and T’Challa [Black Panther],” she revealed. “I want to see that part of Storm’s backstory brought into the through line, into her story at that moment. Because that Storm, that African goddess, we’ve never seen before.”

The untitled X-Men (2028?) reboot is currently fine tuning its screenplay, originally penned by Michael Waldron, with director Jake Schreier leading the charge in pre-production.

Souce: Collider