Following the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, Blake Lively on Saturday revealed that her cameo character Lady Deadpool in the MCU film was created by comic book writer Rob Liefield in 2010 when the idea of Ryan Reynolds’ first Deadpool movie seemed “murky”.
“In 2010 I was on Gossip Girl and about to film my first superhero movie, The Green Lantern with my kind Canadian costar @vancityreynolds. He (Reynolds) told me, our other costar, another superhero newby @taikawaititi and all of us about @deadpoolmovie for the first time,” the 36-year-old actress wrote in a note on Instagram.
Lively opened up about how she and most of her co-stars were unaware of what a “meta” superhero means except for Taika Waititi, who played Thomas Kalmaku in Green Lantern. “Most of us didn’t know what exactly meta meant back then. Except Taika bc he’s always been more brilliant than the rest of us mortals. We understood in theory, but how it would come together for an audience was murky, for everyone but him,” she said, adding that the dream of making a Deadpool film sounded unreal and that the movie was “never gonna happen”.
Rob Liefield, creator of the Deadpool comics, had shared a post back in March 2022, revealing that Lady Deadpool was a character entirely based on Lively. “If we are ever blessed with Lady Deadpool on screen, I’m pretty certain Ms. Lively will have some say in the casting,” Liefield wrote.
“Just before all this in 2010, @robliefeld drew an unmasked Lady Deadpool for the first time, go to the next slide for his words. @deadpoolmovie wasn’t real. And Rob had no idea I was working with @vancityreynolds. 12 years later I read Rob’s post. A year after that, @deadpoolmovie 3 was filmed. And today it’s in theatres,” Lively added.
Lauding director Shawn Levy for his filmmaking prowess, Lively said, “@slevydirect in a league of his own. On and off screen. There will never be another. His insane body of work speaks for itself. Thank you buddy for bringing me along with you in ways big and small.”
Before the release of the Marvel film on Friday, rumours about Lively playing Lady Deadpool were rife. Netizens also speculated Taylor Swift portraying the female version of Deadpool on social media.
Lively, who is set to star in a film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us, has been actively promoting the Marvel film on Instagram. “It's hard not to encourage my ladies to spot all the ways we’ve influenced @deadpoolmovie I’ve never been more proud. And I’ve given birth 4 times,” she wrote in a post four days back.
The Age of Adaline actress also dropped pictures with Reynolds, Avril Lavigne, Madonna and the boy band NSYNC on Saturday. “No one can convince me that I’m not living in BIG and I’m actually 13 years old and in REM of the most wild dream of adulthood ever,” she wrote in the caption, heaping praise on Lavigne, Madonna and others.
