Who’s Playing Lady Deadpool in “Deadpool & Wolverine”?
While everyone who is even moderately enthused for Deadpool & Wolverine knows—and really, the vast majority of folks going to see the film in theaters are anything but moderately enthused—the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman two-hander features a lot of epic cameos. Some of these have been revealed, like the return of Dafne Keen’s Laura from James Mangold’s killer 2017 film Logan, which was, of course, the movie that saw Jackman’s Wolverine sacrifice himself for Laura and die a hero.
While the most recent trailer revealed Keen’s involvement (despite her insisting she wasn’t in the film, taking a page from Andrew Garfield’s book from Spider-Man: No Way Home), it merely teased other characters without revealing who plays them. Perhaps no character has intrigued people as much as Lady Deadpool, one of the variants that Wade Wilson (Reynolds, obviously) comes into contact with as he and Wolverine hopscotch through time. The latest trailer gave us our longest look yet at her, which still kept her mostly hidden. What we did see, however, was that Lady Deadpool has long blonde hair. This counts as a genuine clue for a film that’s keeping almost all its secrets close to its claws.
So let’s speculate about a recent Instagram post from Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds’s wife, who shared an image of her on set, fueling speculation she’s the woman behind Lady Deadpool (their hair certainly seems a match.) This could easily be a calculated misdirection meant to throw us off the scent—Marvel is very good at keeping their secrets, so this Lively post could really be about her celebrating women’s influence on Reynolds’ new film and nothing more.
Check out Lively’s post here:
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Lady Deadpool is but one of the characters who will feature, however briefly, in director Shawn Levy’s film. The long-awaited pairing of Reynolds and Jackman means that it was almost certainly a film in which any star would want a brief role. Considering the film plays around in the multiverse, thanks to the involvement of the Time Variance Authority (first introduced in Loki), there’s no shortage of potential characters, new and iconic, who could pop up.
We’ll soon find out who’s playing Lady Deadpool and all the other cameos in store for us. Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters on July 26.
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Featured image: (L-R): Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios’ DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL.
