Jennifer Garner on Returning to the Fight in “Deadpool & Wolverine”
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet, move along to another part of the multiverse timeline.
As Deadpool & Wolverine continues to conquer the global box office, many of the folks who made surprise cameos in the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman two-hander have spoken up about their involvement in the film. Channing Tatum, who finally got a chance to play Gambit, a role he’d worked four years towards making happen to no avail, spoke about how happy he was that Ryan Reynolds got in touch and offered him the opportunity nearly a decade after the two first met at Comic-Con in 2016. Chris Evans spoke about his opportunity to reprise his very first superhero role as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch from 2005’s Fantastic Four and how he relished the opportunity to deliver a raunchy monologue without cue cards for a Deadpool & Wolverine post-credits scene.
Evans’ Johnny Storm is part of a crew of discarded superheroes marooned in the Void by the Time Variance Authority for refusing to let their own worlds get clipped into non-existence. Those discarded supes also include Dafne Keen’s mutant Laura (from 2017’s Logan) and Wesley Snipes’ Blade, a history-making turn for Snipes who became the person to hold the longest career as a live-action Marvel character—beating out Hugh Jackman, no less—after first appearing as the Daywalker in 1998’s Blade. Snipes also made history as the person with the longest gap between performances, beating out Alfred Molina, who had a 17-year gap between his Doc Ock appearances in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Now Jennifer Garner is opening up about her own surprise cameo, returning to play Elektra, the super-skilled assassin she portrayed in 2003’s Daredevil (alongside Ben Affleck), and again in her stand-alone 2005 film Elektra. Garner appears in Deadpool & Wolverine alongside Tatum’s Gambit, Keen’s Laura, and Snipes’ Blade. In a recent Instagram post, Garner shared how the role came about after having recently worked with Reynolds and director Shawn Levy on The Adam Project, who she said share a “crazy artistic kismet.”
Garner recalled the moment that Levy and Reynolds thought Elektra could appear in Deadpool & Wolverine: “… we were on the set of The Adam Project, and they gave each other this look they have that can communicate an idea, 20 pages of dialogue, nuclear codes—there is a crazy artistic kismet between those two.”
Garner said that she was initially unsure, having not portrayed the character or wielded any of her weapons since 2004. But once she got to work with her stunt double, Shauna Duggins, and got “Marvel fit” as she puts it, Garner put in the work and was Elektra fit by the time filming began.
“I didn’t know that Elektra and I needed an ending, but Shawn and Ryan did,” Garner wrote. “They are gifted in many ways, but seeing and elevating people around them is at the top of the list.”
Check out Garner’s post here:
View this post on Instagram
For more on Deadpool & Wolverine, check out these stories:
That Perfect “Deadpool & Wolverine” Cameo That Linked to the Best “Mission: Impossible” Fight Ever
Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman Surprise Comic-Con Fans With “Deadpool & Wolverine” Screening
Featured image: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 25: Jennifer Garner speaks onstage during “Marvel Studios: The Ultimate Deadpool & Wolverine Celebration Of Life” panel during 2024 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 25, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
