Look, you can get mad at us for the so-called spoiler, but the reality is this. By putting Dafne Keen’s X-23 character from “Logan” in the just-released final “Deadpool & Wolverine” trailer, Marvel Studios definitely wanted that out there. Hell, they even sanctioned an interview with Entertainment Weekly to talk about it. This is clearly a calculated move on the studio’s part to tease some cameos and suggest that many more are on the way for the upcoming Marvel tentpole.
So yes, in the just-released “Deadpool & Wolverine” trailer, there are two minor but intentional spoilers: the full appearance of Lady Deadpool (actually teased in a few previous TV spots) and X-23 (Keen), the Wolverine-esque feral little girl character featured alongside Hugh Jackman in James Mangold’s “Logan” movie.
The new trailer makes clear that the 20th Century Fox Marvel universe is canonical and connected. In Deadpool’s universe, all the Fox “Wolverine” and “X-Men” movies, including “Logan,” were canon, and all lived within the same timeline.
Jackman’s Wolverine comes from a different timeline, but evidently, X-23 is still a known figure to the reluctant hero.
Meanwhile, EW talked to Keen briefly about her cameo. For one, she had to lie during press for the recently finished “Star Wars: The Acolyte” show she co-starred in.
“I had a great time keeping it secret. I had to do a bunch of press for a job that I just finished,” Keen said, alluding to Jedi Jecki on “The Acolyte.” ‘I got asked in every interview, and I just got to lie, which was really funny.”
She said she took inspiration from Andrew Garfield who had to lie through his teeth for months about his scret Spider-Man role in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
“He is the master at this,” she said, and moreover, she was shocked when the filmmakers called. “I immediately screamed. I dropped my phone in the bath. I had to put it in rice; it was a whole thing.”
While poised to include a ton of cameos, the trailers have only confirmed Aaron Stanford’s Pyro, Tyler Mane’s Sabretooth, and, in this trailer, the mutant Toad and Keen’s Laura/X23 character.
Keen more or less confirmed reports that an “X-23” movie was being developed at one point but fell through.
“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’s true Dafne, James Mangold confirmed it and said Disney scrapped it when they bought Fox).
Keen also suggests that the character will be involved in action scenes and may wear her classic comic-book costume. “The first thing I did for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ was stunt training before I shot anything. I put on the costume and was like, “Oh! She’s back.’” Will Keen get to don a yellow and blue mask similar to Logan’s? We’ll find out soon enough.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” opens in theaters nationwide on July 26 from Disney.