“This Storm is a little bit different because you’re meeting her in Cairo. You’re seeing… where she comes from. You’re seeing all the pain that she’s gone through. It’s not like she’s in the mansion having a great time. She’s so different from all of the other kids because they come from families. They come from some sort of love and support, whereas Storm hasn’t had that since her parents died when that plane crashed into the house when she was like, five.

“The only mutants that she knows are the mutants who use their powers for stealing… It’s not like, “Oh, we’re going to save the planet,” it’s like, “Forget the planet, I need money so I’m going to distract you with some wind and then I’m going to pickpocket you.” She’s in survival mode, so when she meets Apocalypse, she’s hit this revelation where she’s been struggling to feel like she belongs somewhere. Then this extremely powerful being comes to her and says, “I’m what you’ve been waiting for, I will take care of you”… I don’t necessarily see her as a bad person, or as a bad mutant. I don’t see her as a villain. She doesn’t know that she’s a villain. That’s just all she’s ever known, is just bad.”

“Oh yeah. I read a bunch of comics. The one comic that I didn’t get to read was Storm’s introduction to X-Men. That’s because it’s worth like $30,000 and I was like, “Okay, is there like some online pictures of it that I could see?” And they’re like, “No, that’s why it’s worth $30,000.” “Oh, okay, got it.”

“I watched the [1990s X-Men] cartoons on repeat. I just kept it going because you could watch them on Hulu Plus, so I just had it going in the background. I love how her accent changed a whole bunch, which was awesome. You’re just like, “Wow, she’s gone from English to sister girl, all the way back”… I’m doing a Kenyan accent. I’m also speaking Arabic, which is cool.”


“I read a lot of the newer comics because there is a lot of newer comics that are doing a lot of her back story especially her stuff with T’Challa, and I wanted to know who she was.

“In my mind because of the way that the script is – in comparison to her comic story line, it’s a little bit different – in my mind, she and T’Challa were king and queen of Africa when they were like 13, and that’s the only way that I could make it work. They were young king and queen, it happens sometimes, whatever.”

“What [Apocalypse] does is, he has the power… to enhance your power. So while you’re around him, he’s got all these mega level mutants. He’s able to turn them into crazy-baboom level mutants. [Storm] has so many powers, but he doesn’t even know what her powers are when he meets her. He can just sense the level and that’s what attracts him to them… their level and their magnitude of power. I think that his plan for her in the movie is to protect him. Protect him with fog. Protect him with lightening. Blow away a missile. Blow away a plane.

“There is so much that she can do, and what he’s looking for is protection because he just woke up after a couple thousand years… She doesn’t know that she’s really good at being evil because she can be really good at anything with those powers.”

“Not yet. I wanted to hold off. I’ve written like 30 draft emails. I’m like, “Alex, you can be cool about this. You can be cool, it’s cool, just be cool”. I’m holding off because when I meet her I want to be like, “Oh my God, I love you!” Not be interrogating her, which I think I would have. Also, it’s like if my seventeen year old self interviewed my older self after I had figured it all out, I think it’d be just a little bit different than Halle so I wanted to keep that distance.”