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*Warning, minor ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and ‘Logan’ spoilers to comply with*
James McAvoy has confirmed he was by no means approached about making a cameo within the new Deadpool & Wolverine.
The 45-year-old Scottish actor, who’s portrayed Professor X, the founding father of the X-Males, since twentieth Century Studio’s reboot of X-Males: First Class, was included in a shock end-credit montage of behind-the-scenes footage from non-Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies. Nonetheless, that was it.
Chatting with Variety over the weekend at Comedian-Con, McAvoy admitted he hadn’t seen the film but, however mentioned he was conscious that he was going to look in clips on the finish of the movie, which marks Ryan Reynolds’s sarcastic superhero’s first foray into the MCU following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019.
However, when requested if there had ever been plans for him to make an official cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine, McAvoy mentioned: “No, no, no, no. Not this one. I don’t suppose so. If there was a world, they clearly threw that concept out the window earlier than calling me, so no.”
He did say, although, that he’s “at all times going to have an interest” in enjoying the professor once more.
“I’ve at all times mentioned, if there’s a very good position, if there’s a very good alternative to inform a very good story, I’m at all times going to be excited by it, irrespective of whether or not it’s one thing I’ve performed earlier than or one thing utterly model new,” McAvoy mentioned. “If there’s good materials, I’m at all times prepared to reply. I’m at all times prepared. Ever prepared! Actor prepared! It’s received to be good, and so they’ve received to need to try this, so it’s all hypotheticals.”
Deadpool & Wolverine sees the return of Hugh Jackman’s bearded mutant, who died in 2017’s Logan. The film sees the 2 superheroes group as much as defend the multiverse and save the world from existential menace.
Whereas the film credit roll, Inexperienced Day’s 1997 monitor “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” performs over a montage of clips and behind-the-scenes footage from twentieth Century Fox superhero movies, together with Daredevil (2003), the unique Incredible 4 (2005) and Elektra (2005).
The montage lastly ends with a picture of the enduring brand of twentieth Century Fox, which has since been rebranded to twentieth Century Studios.
Regardless of critiques for the third Deadpool film being blended, it nonetheless managed to interrupt field workplace data for the biggest world opening for an R-rated movie ever, making an estimated $444.1m worldwide.
Deadpool & Wolverine is in theaters now.
