Warning! The Following Contains a MAJOR SPOILER from the FinalDeadpool & WolverineTrailer.
Dafne Keenpulled the oleAndrew GarfieldfromSpider-Man: No Way Homestunt. Yes, it’s now official: Keen returns as X-23, and she “had a great time keeping it secret!” Although the actress convincingly lied through her teeth on several occasions about possibly returning as Laura during her press tour forThe Acolyte,Keen shows up as Logan’s (Hugh Jackman) Mutant offspring in the latest footage fromDeadpool & Wolverine.Now that the Adamantium-clawed cat is out of the bag, the actress is dishing on keeping her involvement in the upcoming film quiet. Keen said in an interview withEntertainment Weekly:
I had a great time keeping it secret. I had to do a bunch of press for a job that I just finished. I got asked in every interview, and I just got to lie, which was really funny.
At the 1:28 mark of the final trailer, Logan says, “You got the wrong guy,” as a woman with long, dark hair walks away from him in the woods. Suddenly, Laura, aka X-23, turns and faces her father. The Mutant says: “You were always the wrong guy… ‘til you weren’t.”
Deadpool & Wolverine
A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
And as alluded to earlier, Keen channeled her inner Andrew Garfield to keep X-23’s presence inDeadpool & Wolverinea secret until the final trailer that dropped earlier today, which fans can check out below. Keen continued by saying:
All the inspo comes from Andrew Garfield. He is the master at this.
Dafne Keen Dishes on Playing Teenage X-23 in Deadpool & Wolverine
Andrew Garfield famously kept his presence inSpider-Man: No Way Homea secret, so that his webslinger’s reveal in the 2021 film would be a complete surprise to audiences. Garfield lied over and over again in one interview after the other claiming that he was NOT going to appear in the big Spidey team-up movie… but, of course, he did. And now thatDafne Keen’s secret is out in the open,theLogan(2017) actress can finally talk about reprising the character of Laura, aka X-23, inDeadpool & Wolverine. Keen said in the same interview with EW:
“It was wonderful to get to come back to that and explore that as a grown-up,now understanding more parental rage so much more and bringing that to the table for her.I found that Laura in Logan stumbled into having a dad and then having lost her dad.We find her again really knowing how to appreciate — and with this kind of wiseness to her —how much her father means to her.”
Ryan Reynolds Explains the ‘Impossible Amount’ of Familiar MCU Faces Deadpool & Wolverine is Still Hiding
Deadpool & Wolverine should be the most surprising MCU adventure since Avengers: Endgame.
Keen continued:
That’s how I found her again. There wasn’t a lot of looking [for her]. She was just kind of in me. The first thing I did for Deadpool was stunt training before I shot anything. I put on the costume and was like, ‘Oh! She’s back.’
Keen has the honor of appearing in what is unequivocallythe best of all theX-Menmovies,but her character was in a very different place when fans last saw Laura. After burying her fallen father, the pre-teen journeys across the border with her young Mutant friends in search of a new life in their safe haven. And while it’s unclear if this is THE Laura fromLogan,or simply a variant from across Marvel’s multiverse, father and daughter will reunite for at least one scene inDeadpool & Wolverine.
Deadpool & Wolverinejoins the 2024 summer movie season on July 26.
