Emma Corrin reveals with THR how Shawn Levy helped sell them on the idea of appearing in 'Deadpool & Wolverine' despite not being able to share major details about the plot. Plus, they discuss channeling their villainous performance in the film.
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00:00So you talked about your role being inspired by Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka.
00:05What aspects did you pull from that?
00:09It's sort of how Gene Wilder watches the chaos unfold and is quite reserved and nonchalant
00:16about the whole thing.
00:17But he does come across as this sort of grand puppet master that's pulling all the strings,
00:21so I enjoyed that.
00:23Now you said you wanted to train and work out for this and they told you not to.
00:28Well no, obviously Marvel don't tell you much when you get the first call, so I heard they
00:34were interested in me playing the villain and I thought, okay, finally I'll be able
00:37to learn some fight combat, I'll be doing some serious stunts.
00:41And then they told me, you know, your powers, you're telepathic.
00:44I was like, are you serious, really?
00:46Does that mean you want to get into something more physical too for roles down the road?
00:50You know what, I think this film has taught me that actually sometimes having the least
00:55tools, as in it being all internal, is kind of the biggest challenge.
01:00As a villain too, is that something as an actor that you love to do because you get
01:05to be someone that you're obviously not?
01:07Yeah, definitely.
01:08I think out of all the characters I've played, Cassandra's probably the least like myself
01:12and so it was a real joy to explore that.
01:15And you were talking about getting the call and the script and very vagueness at first.
01:20How difficult is that to be like, what am I getting myself into?
01:23You know what?
01:24Very quickly, I met with Sean Levy, our director, and I promise you, Sean is the most exceptional
01:29salesperson.
01:30I mean, he could sell me absolutely anything and I'd buy it.
01:33So out of the whole Disney universe too, who do you like to bring into the Deadpool universe
01:39and corrupt?
01:41Ooh.
01:42I mean, probably Charles Xavier, although Cassandra has very selfish reasons for that.
01:47But maybe Strange.
01:50That's interesting.
01:51Everybody's been going the simple, like, Donald Duck.
01:52Really?
01:54Oh, not MCU people you mean?
01:55Any Disney.
01:56Anyone?
01:57Any Disney.
01:58Oh, okay.
01:59I thought you meant MCU people.
02:00Ooh.
02:01Oh my gosh.
02:02Yeah, Donald Duck would be a good one.