Halle Berry felt the Kingsman movies were very similar to the James Bond franchise on the surface. So much so that she admitted to having a low opinion of the film at first. Halle Berry felt she was a little snobby towards ‘Kingsman’ Berry already had some familiarity with Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn.
Vaughn was supposed to direct Berry’s third X-Men film The Last Stand before dropping out of the project. But the two would end up finally collaborating for Kingsman: The Golden Circle . It was a sequel to the first movie The Secret Service , and saw Berry teaming up with the Statesman.
The role was different from anything that Berry previously played. In Golden Circle , she played Ginger Ale, the tech expert of the faction. It was the type of character she couldn’t believe she was considered for.
“I was shocked that Matthew would think of me,” Berry told Made in Hollywood . “Would you think to cast me in a part like that? What I love about it is to have this woman, this black woman, African American woman who is the brains behind the operation is very forward thinking because I’m not sure very many people would put a woman of color in that role. So I think it was pretty cool.
” But the Oscar winner had her reservations about Kingsman due to its surface similarities with James Bond, who she has a deep connection with. “I come from the Bond world,” Berry said. “So when I first heard about this Kingsman trying to be like Bond, I was a little snobby abou.