Ryan Reynolds says he sees Deadpool as a supporting character moving forward in the MCU.
Reynolds recently reprised his role as Wade Wilson in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which marks the first time the Merc with a Mouth has been part of a superhero film canonically set within the MCU.
While the next appearance of Deadpool has not yet been officially confirmed for any forthcoming Marvel Studios projects, Reynolds believes that we’ll most likely see Wade in a supporting capacity rather than leading a project during the character’s next outing.
What did Ryan Reynolds say about Deadpool in the MCU?
He told Andrew Garfield for Variety’s Actors on Actors, “I see Deadpool as a supporting character much more than he is a main [character] or at the center. We center him sometimes because they want, that’s what they want. But you can’t center him unless you take everything away from him. You have to create a situation where he’s so much the underdog. And I don’t think I can do that again. If he comes back, I think he’s going to be in someone else’s movie. Channing Tatum is so excited to play Gambit, I would happily be the fifth banana in his movie or anybody else’s.”
Reynolds also said, “My feeling is that [the] character works very well in two ways. One is scarcity and surprise. It had been six years since the last one, and part of the reason is that it swallows my whole life. You can’t take your hand off the stick all the way through development and post-production into marketing and promo.
“Then you kind of — I have four kids, and I don’t ever want to be on a first-name basis with any of them. I don’t ever want to be absentee and miss stuff. I, like, kind of die inside when I see their face and they have a competition, or a sports thing, or something, and I missed it. So I don’t know what the future of Deadpool will be, but Shawn [Levy] and I made the movie to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and be a complete experience instead of a commercial for another one. I think it’s important, sometimes, to make space for a movie to just be a movie.”
Marvel‘s Deadpool & Wolverine is now streaming on Disney+.
