This submit incorporates spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.
As Emma Corrin joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they had been dealt the unlucky job of eliminating a fan favourite.
The Deadpool & Wolverine star stated they had been “absoooolutely mad” that their supervillain character Cassandra Nova killed Chris Evans‘ Human Torch throughout a shock cameo after he final performed the Marvel superhero within the 2005 and ’07 Fantastic Four films.
“I felt so dangerous once we had been within the screening the opposite day,” Corrin advised British GQ. “As a result of we watched it after the New York premiere with all these Lincoln Middle filled with followers, and everybody was so excited after they see him seem on display, after which after three minutes, I’ve killed him. I felt horrible. I used to be hiding in my seat. Yeah, it was bizarre. Not one thing I assumed I’d be doing when you’d requested me a couple of years in the past.”
Evans’ shock cameo comes after his MCU tenure as Captain America (aka Steve Rogers) ended with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The film additionally introduced again different previous Marvel favorites, together with Wesley Snipes as Blade and Jennifer Garner as Elektra, in addition to the debut of Channing Tatum‘s Gambit, whose solo Marvel outing by no means fairly materialized.
Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). (Jay Maidment/twentieth Century Studios/Marvel)
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“That’s one thing [Marvel] achieve this nicely, the cameos,” stated Corrin. “You understand, they provide the individuals what they need. They offer them cameos. However in addition they don’t use them gratuitously. They’re all there for a cause. And I feel you actually sense that. Or, I hope individuals sense that, as a result of I feel they’re used actually cleverly.”
Corrin stated they had been “on the identical set” as Evans, and though they met Garner, Tatum and Snipes, they “didn’t really shoot collectively” as they didn’t share a scene.
The actor performed the villainous twin sister of Dr. Charles Xavier (who was beforehand performed by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy) within the new Marvel crossover, which premieres July 26 in theaters.
