Taylor Swift was by no means, ever, ever gonna be in Deadpool & Wolverine.
That is in keeping with director Shawn Levy, who got here clear in regards to the rumors in a brand new interview with Leisure Weekly.
“It was never a conversation. It was never even a seed of a discussion,” Levy admitted. “Obviously, Ryan and Blake, and myself, to a far lesser extent, have our own relationships in real life with Taylor. But, yeah, those rumors were loud and slightly baffling, but nothing I said or did was going to make them quiet down until this movie came out.”
Swift has lengthy been rumored to be becoming a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — lately, most hypothesis has centered on the X-Males character, Dazzler. The truth that X-Males characters popped up in Deadpool & Wolverine additionally helped followers make the case that she would both seem as Dazzler, or Woman Deadpool, as previewed in a trailer.
“I definitely had moments where I was worried I would disappoint people when they realized Taylor as Dazzler was not in the movie,” Levy admitted. “But there’s no controlling the internet, and rumors spread like wildfire.”
Swift’s longtime friendship with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Energetic — who truly ended up voicing Woman Deadpool — additionally added gasoline to the rumor mill, together with the very fact the couple, Levy and Hugh Jackman all joined Swift at a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs soccer sport final fall.
For his half, Levy has stated that he liked all of the rumors, as they helped him to forged additional doubt on the real-life movie star cameos that popped up within the movie — like Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Channing Tatum as Gambit.
The truth is, the director informed ET final November that he discovered the various, diversified Deadpool 3 casting rumors to be “hilarious, and also really useful because now there’s no way for people to tell what’s real and what’s not. So I can just sit back and just let the wave of accuracy and falsehood wash over me.”
Deadpool & Wolverine is in theaters now.
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