Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy explains why the camera stays on Hugh Jackman's butt for too long in one scene, and it's because of a Captain America joke.
The moment in question arrives in the first 30 minutes of the Marvel film and sees Ryan Reynolds' The Merc with The Mouth dragging a drunken Wolverine through the Time Door towards a catwalk at TVA to meet Paradox.
However, you may notice that Wolverine's butt sticks out at an angle that was clearly intended to draw attention to Hugh Jackman's butt. That choice, according to Levy in the Deadpool and Wolverine director's commentary, was intentional.
“There was an outtake there, Ryan. We had a line written where you referred to him as Canada's ass. That was one of the lines that didn't make the cut there. But that's why I did that take: to introduce to Canada's ass.”
Instead, the line was replaced with Deadpool saying, “Look, he's actually wearing a costume like for once he's not embarrassed to be in a superhero movie,” a direct reference to the franchise's long, long history. X-Men movies bypass the comic. precise costumes in favor of black and moody outfits.
The chosen words of 'Canada's Ass', of course, refer to a recurring joke in Avengers: Endgame. First mentioned as a spontaneous joke by Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark on Chris Evans' Captain America, The First Avenger later managed to compliment his buns during the improbable Cap vs. Captain America showdown. Cap during the 2012 time travel portion of the most recent Avengers film.
Away from the director's commentary, a number of new revelations about Deadpool and Wolverine have been circulating thanks to the Disney Plus documentary Assembled: The Making of Deadpool and Wolverine. They include the movie using superfans to help get its Wolverine variants, Shawn Levy was once in talks for the canceled Gambit movie, and a scrapped story idea that would have involved fake deleted scenes showing Deadpool had been in the MCU the entire time. time.
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