Ryan Reynolds recently sat down with Andrew Garfield for Variety’s Actors on Actors. When the Spider-Man actor asked what was in store for Deadpool, Reynolds said, “I don’t know.”
“Honestly, my feeling is that the character works very well in two ways. One is scarcity and surprise,” he continued. “So, it had been six years since the last one, and part of the reason is that it swallows my whole life. I have four kids, and I don’t ever want to be an absentee [dad].”
“I kind of die inside when I see their faces and they do a sports thing or something and I missed it. I don’t know what the future of ‘Deadpool’ will be, but I do know that we made the movie to be a complete experience instead of a commercial for another one.”
The actor seems to close the door on ‘Deadpool 4,’ as he also explained, “Deadpool’s a supporting character much more than he is the centre. We centre him sometimes because that’s what they want but you can’t centre him unless you take everything away from him. You have to create a situation where he’s so much the underdog. I don’t think I can do that again.”
“If he comes back, it’s gonna be in someone else’s movie. Channing Tatum…I would happily be a fifth banana in his movie or anyone else’s,” he added.
Deadpool joined the MCU with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in 2024’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine.’ The two returned as variants from other timelines and battled TVA as well as Emma Corrin’s Cassandra to save the Multiverse from destruction.
Now, there’s a chance for them to come back in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and/or ‘Avengers: Secret Wars,’ as both films are expected to unite heroes from the Multiverse against Doctor Doom. If the characters will be recast after that is yet to be seen.
