Deadpool and Wolverine Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman first met while filming a movie back in 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
In that film, Reynolds played a very different version of Deadpool than the character he played in later films – not wearing the famous red suit and having his mouth sewn shut during the infamous final battle — and Jackman has already acted in several movies. X-Men Franchise. Although the 2009 project wasn’t a critical success, the two actors say they have zero regrets about it, and as Reynolds said, “It spawned this incredible friendship.”
“A lot of people don’t realize that this movie was shot during a writers’ strike, which is one of the most difficult ways you can imagine to make a movie,” Reynolds told hollywood reporter exist Deadpool and Wolverine Premieres in New York on Monday. He pointed to Jackman standing next to him and continued: “I think the perseverance you and others have shown – and I’ve seen the most graceful, kind, smart, disciplined movie star welcome me onto the set, I This behavior must have set an example for me at a rather important period in my life, and for that I am always grateful to Hugh.
The film marks Jackman’s return to the role of Wolverine after bidding farewell to 2017. LoganBut Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige promised there won’t be any decline for the fan-favorite character. “I think when people watch this movie, they won’t feel like a guy coming out of retirement, they’ll feel like a guy at the top of his game,” Feige said.
Deadpool and Wolverine It’s also the first R-rated film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and as director Shawn Levy admits, “We kept waiting for pushback. We’d submit drafts of the script, we’d submit cuts of the movie, and then we waited for what we thought was the inevitable There were requests from Disney or Marvel to moderate it; those requests never came and we had absolute creative freedom.
Feige explained that the first two times dead Pool The movies (the first was released in 2016 and the second in 2018) were both rated R, and when Disney acquired the property from Fox, the studio “had made it very clear that they were previously R-rated, Let this be R-rated. He added: “Ryan is the best arbiter. Ryan knows where the line is and he goes right there and pulls himself back. But the line is far away.”
The MCU boss also weighed in on whether this would open the door to more R-rated Marvel content in the future, saying: “I think it’s at the right time, of course. It’s totally appropriate. dead Pool – If it wasn’t R it wouldn’t be appropriate, and if we met a character like that, I could think of something in the character’s DNA and that’s what we would do.
Deadpool and Wolverine Opens Friday.
Garrett Vogel contributed to this report.
