Ryan Reynolds Reveals Which Deadpool & Wolverine Scene Was The Most "Terrifying" To Write

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Though the prospect of Deadpool coming back for a third film would have been enough to draw audiences in, Deadpool & Wolverine upped the movie"s box office appeal by bringing back Hugh Jackman to star alongside Ryan Reynolds. Jackman had previously played Wolverine for 17 years before retiring from the role, so his decision to return sent shockwaves among Marvel fans. Apparently, that included Reynolds, who co-wrote the film.
In an interview with IndieWire, the actor revealed that writing "Wolverine dialogue was a terrifying process." Reynolds used this opportunity to heap praise onto his friend and costar Jackman, speaking more specifically about a scene wherein WOlverine gives Deadpool a heavy reality check:

"Hugh took that monologue and just devoured it. He chewed it, swallowed it, and delivered for us…and at the end, there’s a stage direction at the bottom that briefly says after he finishes that whole speech, "a flicker of regret crosses his pupil." And Hugh, in the scene, if you watch it, there is the tiniest little feeling of “I went too far,” and if you blinked, you would have missed it. I get goosebumps even thinking about it, because it was an actor who is so in tune with his instrument and himself. I get to sit there, wearing a mask."

The film"s director, Shawn Levy, also explained how the writers got to the final version of the now-famous monologue inside of a Honda Odyssey: "we just did version, version, version, and we spent hours until it somehow felt like Logan, but also expressed a dimension and a voice that we haven’t heard him speak in." Reynolds further clarified his approach to writing Logan, who he describes as "very Clint Eastwood." He explained that Wolverine is a "less is more" kind of character.
Additionally, Reynolds unpacked how these struggles in writing Logan helped the writers reach his motive for donning his iconic yellow suit:

So these are all problems you have to solve over and over again. When the first thing we said to Hugh, “You’ve got it, you got to be in the yellow suit.” And we have to wait. We can’t just put you in it. They’ll clap when they see it. They’ll love it. But we have to find out why you’re wearing it. There’s got to be a reason. And then the other thing is that the character, traditionally, at least, from the core comic books, is a guy who cannot control his rage. He has a berserker rage. He doesn’t just kill the bad guys. When he goes into that state, he kills good guys too. And that is like a sickness for him. The suit, we wrote it as a hair shirt, or a penance, or this thing that he carries with him out of shame.

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8/10 357 9/10 Deadpool & Wolverine R Action Sci-FiComedySuperhero A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
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*Availability in US Release Date July 26, 2024 Runtime 127 Minutes Franchise(s) Deadpool , Marvel Cinematic Universe Cast Ryan Reynolds , Hugh Jackman , Emma Corrin , Morena Baccarin , Rob Delaney , Leslie Uggams , Karan Soni , Matthew Macfadyen , Brianna Hildebrand , Shioli Kutsuna , Stefan Kapicic , Lewis Tan , Randal Reeder , Jennifer Garner , Aaron Stanford , Billy Clements , Ollie Palmer , Chris Hemsworth , Rob McElhenney Director Shawn Levy Writers Rhett Reese , Paul Wernick , Shawn Levy , Ryan Reynolds , Zeb Wells , Rob Liefeld , Fabian Nicieza Studio(s) Marvel , Maximum Effort Expand Upcoming MCU Movies