WWE’s Randy Orton recently revealed on the ‘What Do You Wanna Talk About?’ podcast that he sent an audition tape to play Cable in 2018’s ‘Deadpool 2’ but didn’t get the role.
“I read for Cable and in my head, boy, I was gonna be Cable,” the wrestler said. “I was like, ‘This is it.’ Nope. No callback, nothing. Josh Brolin gets it. Of course, Josh Brolin gets it. I kind of realized then, ‘OK, I can send in these auditions, but I’m a pro wrestler, you know?”
The sequel showed Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool teaming up with Cable to stop future events that would lead to the death of the time-traveling soldier’s family. It made $785 million at the worldwide box office, though newly-released ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ surpassed it.
Josh Brolin did not return as Cable in the third installment, but Hugh Jackman reprised his role as Wolverine alongside Reynolds. While early rumors suggested that Patrick Stewart would also join them as Professor X, director Shawn Levy recently denied them.
“Never even discussed,” he shared with the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast. “[He was] studied. Studied by Emma Corrin, big-time, because the Cassandra siblinghood to Professor X is really interesting to us. But, no, never discussed. Never considered.”
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, leaving 2019’s ‘Joker’ behind with $1.143 billion.
