Henry Cavill has broken his silence on his Deadpool and Wolverine cameo and, fittingly, it features a reference to his time as Superman. Deadpool and Wolverine’s montage of Wolverine variants included a surprise face: The Cavillrine, played by Henry Cavill. Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool even makes pointed reference to Marvel treating the actor better than the studio "down the street".
"To be safe, I shaved the moustache off for this one. Just the moustache," Cavill wrote on Instagram, a sly nod to Justice League reshoots overlapping with his time on production for Mission: Impossible – Fallout . There, his character Walker sported a ‘stache, which had to be superimposed out of new Superman scenes in painfully unsubtle fashion .
Cavill, of course, portrayed Superman in the DCEU from Man of Steel through to the ill-fated Black Adam post-credits scene , a moment which was quickly made redundant after James Gunn and Peter Safran rebooted the cinematic universe under the new DC Studios umbrella. Speaking to Collider , Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy revealed the Henry Cavill cameo actually came together in just a few minutes. "That idea was hatched by Ryan, named by Ryan in that same instance, and it was not long after the Superman-DC shuffling of the deck, and it was just on our minds and then it was the idea, the name, a text, and an answer, all in 15 minutes," Levy recalled.
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