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Aubrey Plaza Alludes To Failed Audition For Domino In ‘Deadpool 2’ While Still Making ‘Legion’: “That One Hurt”

Sometimes in the world of superhero films, there are a lot of “what-if” casting situations where actors might have auditioned or had been offered a role but that simply doesn’t come together. We’ve seen this with how Hugh Jackman was a replacement for Dougray Scott as Wolverine in the original “X-Men” film. Other examples include Tom Cruise nearly playing Iron Man and Leonardo DiCaprio playing Spider-Man for James Cameron. It looks like actress Aubrey Plaza had once almost scored a second Marvel Comics project on her belt with a part in “Deadpool 2.” Long before joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In a year-old interview with Cosmopolitan (spotted by Aubrey Plaza Updates), the comedic actress reveals that while she was still shooting the FX/Marvel series “Legion” (an “X-Men” adjacent project) she had auditioned for a role in “Deadpool 2” and all signs point towards the role of Domino, given that was the big female part that was being filled for the sequel.

“There are a lot of roles that I really wanted that I didn’t get, but everything happens for a reason. I don’t know, the one that sticks out to me for some reason I think it was ‘Deadpool 2’ I had just come off a plane and I think I was shooting ‘Legion’ at the time. And I really wasn’t in a good zone cause auditioning. You have to be in an auditioning zone and I was in a ‘work zone,’ that one hurt. Me and Ryan Reynolds, what could go wrong? We Would be great together,” Plaza said of nearly nabbing a part alongside Ryan Reynolds in “Deadpool 2.”

Zazie Beetz is reportedly set to reprise her role as Domino in Deadpool 3 - Xfire

That part would eventually go to Zazie Beetz and oddly enough is one of the few previous actors not confirmed for a return in “Deadpool 3” (Then again, Josh Brolin’s Cable not returning is a little puzzling for us as well). There were others vying for that part as Mackenzie Davis was once in the mix. The exit of director Tim Miller seemed to stem from creative/casting frustrations and eventually saw Davis take a leading role in Miller’s “Terminator: Dark Fate” which had James Cameron’s involvement.

This isn’t an uncommon thing as “Eternals” actor Kumail Nanjiani almost played the Dopinder role in the first installment and that part would end up going to Karan Soni (returns for “Deadpool 3”), so, sometimes it does work out for the better. Perhaps, we’ll see Plaza and Reynolds tangle with each other in the MCU down the line since she’s part of the cast of the upcoming Disney+ series “Agatha.”

You can watch that full interview with Plaza below.

SOURCE: COSMO

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‘Deadpool 3’: Zazie Beetz Hopeful She’ll Reprise Domino & Wants A Solo Movie – “I Would Love To Revive The Role”

After some really bad information circulating last year that Marvel/Disney wouldn’t be making Deadpool 3 (at all) or keep it’s R-rating, it was announced that Marvel Studios had indeed hired sibling screenwriters Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin  tasked to pen a script. They are also dead-set on keeping the third installment for mature audiences, which was something both Marvel and Disney brass has been stating publicly for years.

There has been some hints the film would be continuation of the franchise but it’s still unknown if anyone outside of Ryan Reynolds will be reprising their roles such as Josh Brolin’s Cable or Zazie Beetz’s Domino are currently in limbo concerning the sequel. The three actors had been expected to team-up again for an X-Force movie that was going to be written and directed by Drew Goddard. Of course, these plans were being put together well before the merger with Disney killed a bulk of the Marvel projects in development at Fox such as Gambit, X-23 aka Laura, and the Doctor Doom film.

Zazie Beetz was recently promoting her upcoming Amazon animated series Invincible (also extremely mature) when asked by Collider about her status on Deadpool 3 and if she has spoken to Marvel Studios/Disney about reprising the Domino role. She hasn’t talked to anyone about Domino but is interested in returning and even mentioned a desire to make a Domino movie.

BEETZ: “No, I haven’t [heard about Domino’s return]. I would love to revive the role. That was always in the world of what was potentially going to happen. I haven’t had any specific conversations around it. But I’m interested. Not only would I love to revive the role, I would love to figure out a way to make a Domino movie or something like that. We’ll see what happens, but I haven’t had any personal conversations.”

While a solo Domino movie might be a hard sell given how busy the Marvel feature film schedule tends to be, I could totally see the mutant character getting her own series either on Disney+ or Star (their new mature arm on Disney+) to help expand the Deadpool/X-Men universe.

We don’t really know the direction or plot of the third film outside of the brief comment on Twitter from Ryan suggesting they originally wanted to make a road trip film with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. However, at that point Hugh had retired the X-Men character after Logan and would explain why their focus pivoted to X-Force after the release of Deadpool 2. It’s possible they’ve scrapped all that stuff and are doing something completely different as they’ve replaced former screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Deadpool 3 doesn’t have release or production dates as a director has yet to be chosen, but there is a really good chance depending on Ryan’s busy schedule that Marvel Studios could begin shooting the sequel sometime in 2022 for a release in 2023-2024.

SOURCE: COLLIDER