It’s been two years since Ryan Reynolds dropped the bombshell that Deadpool’s first outing in the MCU would include Hugh Jackman’s final (?) portrayal as Wolverine. Marvel’s Deadpool and Wolverine arrives in theaters in late July, and Jackman said he was ready to sign on without talking to someone who should’ve been involved–his agent.
Reynolds and Jackman had previously worked together on Wolverine: Origins where Reynolds played a completely different version of Wade Wilson/Deadpool and Jackman had to bring them together again. Speaking to Fandango alongside Reynolds and director Shawn Levy, Jackman said his decision to play Wolverine again was something he knew he had to take and did so pretty much on the spot.
“I swear to you, when I said I was done, I really thought I was done. But in the back of my head, ever since I saw [the first] Deadpool, I was like, ‘Those two characters together.’ I knew it, I knew the fans wanted it ever since I put on the claws, people talked about these two. So, that had always been there, but I just knew.”
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