Blake Lively influenced the ending of Deadpool & Wolverine after she gave a note to her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and director Shawn Levy.
Lively had a cameo in the Marvel film as Lady Deadpool, but the director’s commentary revealed that the Gossip Girl alum had a more impactful role.
The film ends with Deadpool and Wolverine’s fate remaining in the air after they destroy the time ripper, as Matthew MacFadyen’s Paradox delivers an evil speech.
“Credit where credit is due. It used to be that there was no suspense, that the power room blew up, and our heroes had survived,” Levy says (via Games Radar). “It was Blake Lively who said to us, ‘You know, I’ve been with you this whole movie. I want to sit in the fear that they’re lost. Let me be in that place of suspense so the triumph of their survival is more emotional and visceral.’”
Levy continued, “It really opened up a new way of thinking about this part of the movie and it’s why we did this reshoot… and, here, the payoff is so much more satisfying.”
Reynolds, who was also a producer in the film, said, “We did just a day-and-a-half of reshoots on the movie, which we’re very proud of. These kinds of movies typically involve weeks of reshoots. But this speech that Matthew has is one of the pieces that we reshot. And he is miraculous.”
Lively and Reynolds seem to influence each other’s projects. Earlier this year, Lively revealed that Reynolds was behind the “iconic rooftop scene” in It Ends With Us.
“The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it,” Lively said in an interview with E! News on August 6. “Nobody knows that but you now.”
Lively added, “We help each other. He works on everything I do. I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine, and mine are his.”