Ryan Reynolds starrer Deadpool 2 was very well received by the critics as well as the audiences. There are a lot of funny scenes in the film including the one which shows Wade Wilson’s Basic Instinct (infant) leg cross. The scene in question takes place after Deadpool had his legs torn off by Juggernaut.
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, while promoting Deadpool 2’s home release, Ryan Reynolds revealed that he was anticipating that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) would request the filmmakers to remove the leg-cross scene from the film, but the same did not happen.
“I didn’t know if I was going to have to go down and arbitrate with the MPAA and explain that’s my tiny dick and balls, not CGI. But it wasn’t a problem,” Reynolds joked.
Ryan also talked about the post-credits scene that was removed from the theatrical release. It showed the Merc with the Mouth travel back in time to kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. The scene will, however, be included on the film’s home media release later this month.
“I always loved it, because it created the same debate in our edit room as it does in the streets of the world,” Reynolds said. “It was debated back and forth, and over and over again. We were all a little nervous about it, wondering, ‘Is it too much?’ None of us could come to a consensus on how to handle it, so our final decision was to just not handle it, to just not put it in the movie. We cut it out partially for time, but also to give us something really fun to add into the coda of the DVD.”
Another scene from the film which was removed from the film for being too rude and would probably never see the light of the day was Deadpool 2’s Disney gag.
“I think most filmmakers would say, ‘Find your favorite moment in a movie and cut it out, because that’s what’s going to happen anyway,’ the Deadpool actor said about the Disney gag. “It was one of my favorite things in the movie, and one of the earliest things I planted my flag on and said ‘I want to keep this joke.’ And then it was one of the first things I was forced to remove.”
“You like to think that you get to work with complete autonomy, but at the same time, you don’t. You want to be collaborative. And as much as we laugh at Fox and poke fun at Fox, [vice chairwoman] Emma Watts has been a partner who has been in lockstep with everything we’ve done, every step of the way, all the way back to the first film. They’ve allowed us do stuff that I don’t think any other studio would allow us to do. So, conceding on this one thing was not the end of the world for me. We had a lot of other great, great moments in the movie.”
Deadpool 2 is releasing on Blu-ray and DVD on August 21. The film’s home video release will include a range of extras and bonus features including the Super Duper Cut with 15 minutes of extra footage.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
