Looks like Ryan Reynolds isn’t the only merc with a mouth in Marvel’s latest – Wolverine seems to have been turned into a real chatterbox…
The Deadpool movies aren’t exactly renowned for their contemplative silence. For most of his two outings so far, multiple characters have been telling Ryan Reynolds Wade Wilson he needs to shut up.
And it looks like his motor-mouth is spreading. In a press conference in advance of the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere next week, Hugh Jackman revealed one monologue contains more dialogue than some of the scripts for his previous outings in their entirety.
“Having played Wolverine for 24 years now… The writers wrote this one monologue which has more countable words than I’ve had in an entire movie before as Wolverine…”
Jackman was also pretty open about his reasons for returning to the character seven years after supposedly hanging up the claws for good in James Mangold’s Logan.
“I meant what I said when I said I’m done… I announced it before we’d shot Logan, and about three days after that I saw Deadpool,” he said.
“About 15 minutes into the film I was like: ‘Oops’. Then for the next four or five years I could see those two characters together. All I kept thinking about was 48 Hrs, The Odd Couple, Planes, Trains And Automobiles… I could see how these two characters could work.”
The film also gave the The Greatest Showman star the chance to show a different side to his most famous role.
“Maybe it’s something about being my age and this time of my life, and being with friends… I feel so invigorated playing the character again, and I think fans are going to see a whole different side to him, which I’m so excited about.”
Deadpool & Wolverine arrives in UK cinemas 25th July.
