Ryan Reynolds Knows About Getting Chris Evans to Show Up Deadpool and Wolverine It’s not easy. Even though the Marvel mainstay won’t be returning in the iconic role of Captain America, Reynolds sees no harm in giving the character more than just a cameo. And, once he did, Evans agreed…with a small caveat.
Comments about the director Deadpool and WolverineReynolds and co-writer-director Sean Levy talk about the film’s surprising post-credits scene. The scene reveals that Evans’ character Johnny Storm said everything Deadpool claimed about Cassandra Nova. It was that expletive-laden speech, and especially its location, that brought Ivins back.
“Well, at the risk of going too far with my theme of necessity being the mother of invention, I would very much like Chris to do that and play the Human Torch in this movie. But not as a favor,” Reynolds explain. “I wanted to find a way to get him to say ‘yes’ because that was the part of him that he couldn’t resist. So the tag at the end of the movie was a scene that I thought I wrote in five minutes. Part of it was just to see if he would see this sequence or scene and say “yes” just on its merits, but I also wasn’t sure if this scene was going to work and he read the scene and called me back and said, “As long as the credits tag is on this one.” In the movie, that’s what I do. “That’s when I knew my brother wasn’t going to mess around. He was ready to let it fly.
Talk about Ivins having a Marvel instinct. He knew that appearing in the post-credits scene would get fans excited, but he also knew that him sitting there spouting curses would be the perfect subversion of that in Deadpool. So he gave it his all.
“I said to Chris, ‘We can have prompters or giant cue cards, whatever you want, anything,’ and he was like ‘Fuck it guys. I’m ready to go,'” Reynolds said. “I think we only shot it two or three times. It’s an extraordinary side of him that I don’t think we’ve ever seen, and I love that.
We love it too. Check back next week for more information Deadpool and Wolverine Digital version, now available. The film will be released on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on October 22.
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