Ryan Reynolds knew to get Chris Evans appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine it wouldn’t be easy. Although Evans I wouldn’t go back As Captain America, Reynolds thought it wouldn’t hurt to give him a bigger role than just a cameo. And, once that was done, Evans accepted… with one small condition.
In the comments of the director of Deadpool & Wolverine, now available digitallyReynolds and co-writer/director Shawn Levy talked about the surprising post-credits scene of the movie. The scene reveals that Evans’ character, Johnny Storm, said everything that Deadpool claims about Cassandra Nova. And it was that expletive-filled speech, and specifically its location, that convinced Evans to return.
“Well, at the risk of being redundant with my theme of necessity being the mother of invention, I desperately wanted Chris to do this, play the Human Torch in this movie. But not as a favor,” Reynolds said. “I wanted to find a way for him to say ‘Yes’ because it was a role I couldn’t resist. So the end of this movie is a scene that I think I wrote in five minutes. Part of it was to see if he would watch the sequence and say ‘Yes’ on its merits alone, but I also wasn’t sure if the scene would work. He read the scene, called me and said, ‘I’ll do it as long as that post-credits scene is in the movie.’ And that’s when I knew I wasn’t playing. “I was ready to do it.”
Everything went as expected
Speaking of Evans’ Marvel instincts, he knew that appearing in a post-credits scene would excite fans, but also that him cursing would be the perfect subversion for Deadpool. So I was totally committed.
“I told Chris ‘We can have teleprompters or big cards, whatever you want,’ and he said ‘Forget it, buddy. I’m ready to do it,’” Reynolds said. “I think we only filmed this two or three times. It was remarkable and a side to him that I don’t think we’d ever seen, which I love.”
And we love it too. Check back next week for more on the digital release of Deadpool & Wolverinenow available. It will be available on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on October 22.
This article has been translated from Gizmodo US by Lucas H. Here you can find the original version.
