Deadpool & Wolverine is inching toward the coveted billion-dollar mark at the global box office. And fans remain very interested in knowing how various prominent cameos in the film came to be. Blake Lively, whose newest film It Ends with Us opens in the U.S. theaters this weekend, revealed how her Ladypool cameo happened in the superhero blockbuster.
Blake Lively talks Deadpool & Wolverine’s Ladypool cameo
In a recent interview, Blake Lively shed some light on how she ended up portraying Ladypool in Deadpool & Wolverine. Rob Liefeld, who created the character of Deadpool, apparently modeled Lady Deadpool after Lively as he and his wife Joy had watched her show Gossip Girl.
When asked what it was like being part of the Deadpool franchise during her appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark, on Wednesday, August 7, Lively explained, “Well, that was like a neat little surprise.” “Rob Liefeld, who drew LadyPool… I had no idea but in 2010, he drew Lady Deadpool. And at the same time, I was cast in the Green Lantern with my now husband, who was not my husband then,” she added.
Lively noted that the timeline of all this could get a little wonky and one would need “a conspiracy yarn” to follow it. “But, basically, there was no association with Ryan, Ryan had no association with Deadpool,” she continued. “He was supposed to make this movie. But, it was a pipe dream. It wasn’t ever really going to happen. And Rob Liefeld drew LadyPool based on… he and his wife watched Gossip Girl. So, it was just kind of crazy how the world… You know, my husband and I got married and Deadpool was made. They were looking for a LadyPool, so, you know,” she added.
Lively mentioned the same sequence of events in one of her Instagram posts after Deadpool & Wolverine’s premiere. She revealed Reynolds told her and their Green Lantern co-star Taika Waititi about Deadpool for the first time in 2010.
“Just before all this in 2010, [Liefeld] drew an unmasked Lady Deadpool for the first time,” she added in the post. “[Deadpool movie] wasn’t real. And Rob had no idea I was working with [Reynolds],” Lively continued.
Notably, Rob Liefeld shared the post that Lively attached to her Instagram back in March 2022 and confirmed Lady Deadpool was indeed “based entirely on Lively.” He even expressed his hope of Lively portraying the character if it ever appeared on screen.
According to Lively, a year after she read Liefeld’s post, filming for Deadpool happened.
