‘Deadpool and Wolverine,’ starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, has become one of the highest-grossing films of the year with $850 million earnings so far, heading towards $1 billion by its third weekend. One of the movie’s biggest appeals are the several cameos of Marvel characters, including the return of Dafne Keen’s X-23.
Keen first played the character in ‘Logan’ (2017), earning praise for her performance. While her return was supposed to be a secret, as well as many others, her presence in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ was confirmed ahead of the film’s premiere.
The 19-year-old Spanish-British actress has talked in length about her experience on the set of the action film, in which, apart from Reynolds and Jackman, she also starred opposite stars such as Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes and Channing Tatum. While she says that her experience was great, she also had a very rare complaint about her time with Tatum. Here’s what she said.
Keen says Tatum was ‘yapping’ in front of her
‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ has received mostly positive reviews, and to many critics and fans, one of the standout performances of the film is Tatum as Gambit, a character he was supposed to play back a decade ago but the project never came to fruition.
However, the ‘21 Jump Street’ actor didn’t hold back in his scenes in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine,’ being one of the funniest characters of the story. And, to Keen, this was a problem as she kept breaking character while they were filming.
“I had to tell him that on my shot he couldn’t say his lines,” she said while talking to the Phase Zero podcast. “I kept breaking character,” she added, explaining that she was trying to maintain her “broody Wolverine” attitude but everytime Tatum said his lines she “was like ‘not. You’re making it so hard!’”
“Even in the formation when he’s like ‘I’m ‘bout to make a name for myself here,’ I was like ‘no. Again.’ I’m trying to be calm and collected and this guy was just yapping at me, and he was like right in front of me. I was like dying [of laughter],” she explained.
Dafne Keen says that everyone was ‘so nice’ while filming
Keen only had praise for all the actors she worked with, as well as for director Shawn Levy. “Shawn and Ryan (Reynolds) are really intelligent people,” she said, explaining that the director and the star helped her with all her questions about her character.
She also said that working with Jackman again was a “similar” experience as the ones their characters were having on screen. “It has been many years. My life is completely different, his life is completely different. We are now with a different director with a completely different tone for the film. But we also got a scene that was very… Kind of the space in which we can be comfortable with each other. A heavy, emotional scene,” she explained to the podcast.
“It was kinda terrifying, I’ve said this before, but I thought that we might have lost it cause we haven’t done it in eight years but when we got on set, it very naturally happened. Shawn is so brilliant. It was a very different energy,” she added.
Keen also said that the casting director brought “the nicest people” in Hollywood. “Everyone was so excited. Everyone was so happy. Everyone was so geeked out,” the actress expressed. “I’ve worked with a lot of people. Most of them are not nice. With these people, I don’t have a single complaint about them. They immediately took so much care of me,” she concluded.
