Marvel are not taking any chances as the Deadpool & Wolverine final trailer confirms Dafne Keen’s return as X23. No chance they’re not getting you into theatres for this one folks. Keen had previously denied being in the movie. Though, the Barside Buzz told a different story. However, Keen is in it, and she’s now spoke about keeping it a secret.
First check out the final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine below.
Speaking with EW, Keen talks about filming her cameo and keeping it a secret.
Keen Returns as X23
“I had a great time keeping it secret. I’d had to do a bunch of press for a job that I just finished,” Keen says, referring to her role as the Jedi Jecki on The Acolyte. “I got asked in every interview, and I just got to lie, which was really funny.”
And indeed, she was the werewolf.
“All the inspo [inspiration] comes from Andrew Garfield,” Keen says. “He is the master at this.”
Keen had at one point expected to return much sooner as X23.
“It was very much a reality that then kind of fell through,” she says. “There were talks of a script being made. I’d heard it was an X-23 [movie]. I dunno how much of what I’m saying is true because I was 11, but this is what I’d heard through the grapevine.”
“It was quite sad,” she recalls of that moment. “I was like, ‘Oh well, I guess that’s it. That’s life, and I’ll have to move on’ — even though this is one of the greatest characters I’ll ever get to play, and annoyingly, I got to play her at 11! I peaked at 11.”
No way Dafne! You also played Lyra (His Dark Materials) after that, one of my favorite literary characters, and did a great job, thanks.
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Her agent had been negotiating for a month straight in secret when Keen got the call while relaxing after a 12-hour day of filming and stunt training. “Immediately I screamed,” Keen continues. “I dropped my phone in the bath. Had to put it in rice; it was a whole thing.”
“I was a bit freaked out,” she says of getting to set. “I was like, ‘I will have forgotten how to play her. She’s not in me anymore.'” Keen rewatched Logan in preparation, trying to remember what she was doing as a young performer. “We went straight into this pretty intense scene. I know I was freaking out,” she adds. “As soon as they said, ‘Rolling!’ I really felt like we were back doing Logan. It was like eight years hadn’t passed.”
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Oh and Laura speaks now.
“Laura has now been around a lot of English-speaking people, so she has a neutral accent every so often. She spats a little bit in Spanish, obviously,” Keen notes, alluding to her upbringing in Madrid. “I had to include that.”
“It was wonderful to get to come back to that and explore that as a grownup,” she explains, “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.”
“That’s how I found her again,” Keen says. “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.'”
So there you have it folks! What do you think of the Deadpool & Wolverine final trailer as it confirms Dafne Keen returns as X23? Thoughts below as per usual.
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