Deadpool and Wolverine director addresses those Taylor Swift rumors, as he thanks Marvel fans for "building a smokescreen of half-truths"

Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy has thanked fans for fanning the flames of a potential Taylor Swift cameo so hard on the internet, it distracted from the Marvel movie's real A-list surprises. In a new interview with Variety , the filmmaker, whose works include Free Guy, The Adam Project, and Stranger Things, described the theory that Swift would appear as X-Men popstar Dazzler (and later, Lady Deadpool ) as "one of the loudest rumors that came out of nowhere". "It was never true," he confirmed.

"Thank you, internet, for building such a smokescreen of rumors and half-truths so that no one ever knew what was going to happen." In the end, it was Ryan Reynolds' real-life wife Blake Lively who played Lady Deadpool and, well, Dazzler didn't show up at all. Though the superhero flick boasted a ton of other shocking cameos , including Jennifer Garner as Elektra, Channing Tatum as Gambit, and Wesley Snipes as Blade.

"There may or may not have been some subterfuge and misdirections on the internet or in-person in order to protect the secrecy," executive producer Wendy Jacobson previously told GamesRadar+ and Inside Total Film , when we asked how Marvel kept certain things from leaking. "I can neither confirm nor deny any cameos in this film but I will say, in terms of characters that may or may not appear, it was always important to us that nothing in this movie feels like a gimmick," Jacobson, who previously worked on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law , continues. "Anyone showing u.