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“It’s only nine people, but my entire world is in this picture.” These are a few of the words uttered by Ryan Reynolds’ forever-chatty Wade Wilson in the final Deadpool & Wolverine trailer. While the sizzle reel took the internet by storm Friday morning because of its strategic reveal of another beloved character cameo from X-Men movies past, what caught us most by surprise was how earnest, and even hoarse, Reynolds sounded as he pleaded with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine to help him save his family. Deadpool might be the Merc with the Mouth, but in this scene he definitely wasn’t talking out the side of it.
Then again, one of the things about the first two Deadpool movies—particularly the earlier one—is how unexpectedly earnest they could really be. The first film really was the (raunchy) romantic comedy to beat during Valentine’s Day 2016. And it got us wondering as we headed into an interview with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige if Deadpool & Wolverine has an emotional through-line just as important when you move past all the superhero movie easter eggs and dick jokes.
“It was extremely important to all of us, especially to Ryan and to Hugh and to Shawn [Levy],” Feige says while also referring to Deadpool 3’s director. “You’re absolutely right and the first person who’s pointed out that beyond the R-rated crude jokes, and that [type of] fun, that in both of the other Deadpool movies, and I think particularly in this one as well, there is an emotional core to the character. And as you saw in the [final trailer], very much of this movie is about Deadpool saying ‘am I tired of my own shtick?’”