Matthew Macfadyen talks to THR at the 'Deadpool & Wolverine' red carpet premiere and dishes on doing improv with Ryan Reynolds during their scenes in the movie. Plus, he reveals why he thinks the Deadpool character has avoided "superhero fatigue."
00:00Day one of set, did Ryan get all his questions out about Succession before you got to work?
00:05Yeah, it's very nice. Yeah, it was lovely. It was lovely.
00:10Getting to work with Ryan and Hugh too, a lot of improv on set.
00:14Did you get to improv along with the guys?
00:16I think the misconception is that it's very improvisation heavy and the script is so good.
00:23And if you do have a wonderful script, which we did, then really 99% of the time you stay with the script.
00:28But it's that 1% which you sort of have fun with and put things in.
00:34And because it's Ryan's baby and he's Deadpool in his bones, he just could throw things in and encourage me to try stuff.
00:44And Sean as well, Sean Levy, our director. So it felt very fertile and fun.
00:49Now being a part of this franchise now, why do you think Deadpool specifically has been able to stand that tested time of not having that superhero fatigue?
00:58Well, I think Deadpool is just, he subverts the whole thing and he's deliciously, kind of wickedly subversive.
01:09I mean, that's the joy of it. He says the thing that everyone might think in their darkest thoughts and just says it.
01:18Now, obviously you've been around a lot of F-bombs, but who on set said the most off-set?
01:23Sorry, say that again.
01:24You've been around a lot of F-bombs on camera. Previous job in this one.
01:29But who has the dirtiest of mouths out of Ryan and Hugh?
01:33Oh, Ryan. Oh, actually, no, probably Hugh in real life, I'd say.
01:40Ryan and it's Deadpool for sure.
01:42Will you be enjoying some popcorn from Hugh's head tonight?
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