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‘I don’t know what the future of Deadpool will be…’ Ryan Reynolds muses on future of the Merc with a Mouth on screen

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool

Ryan Reynolds is unsure what will happen with Deadpool after ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’.

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool

The 48-year-old actor starred opposite Hugh Jackman’s X-Men hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) blockbuster, though has now admitted his future as the the ‘Merc with a Mouth’ is uncertain.

Speaking with Andrew Garfield, 41, as a part of Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ series, Reynolds said: “I don’t know what the future of Deadpool will be, but I do know that we made the movie to be a complete experience instead of a commercial for another one.”

‘The Proposal’ star – who shares daughters James, nine, Inez, seven, Betty, five, and 22-month-old son Olin with his wife Blake Lively – added making the ‘Deadpool’ films “swallows [his] whole life”, and that he “kind of dies inside” when he misses seeing his children grow up due to the hours required to make the movies.

He said: “Honestly, my feeling is that the character works very well in two ways. One is scarcity and surprise.

“So it had been six years since the last one, and part of the reason is that it swallows my whole life. I have four kids, and I don’t ever want to be an absentee [father].

“I kind of die inside when I see their faces and they do a sports thing or something and I missed it.”

Reflecting on ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’, Reynolds emphasised Disney and Marvel Studios had been “so supportive” of him and the project, even if the former company’s CEO Bob Iger had requested one of the jokes from the film to be removed.

He said: “Disney and Marvel, they were so supportive from the jump.

“I think I had one line that Bob Iger wanted out of…

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