Morena Baccarin on Vanessa’s Small Role in Deadpool & Wolverine: “I Was Hardly On Set”

Before Deadpool & Wolverine was released, there were a ton of rumors suggesting we might see Morena Baccarin return as Lady Deadpool, but the role ultimately went to Blake Lively. The actress simply returned as Vanessa and really had a small role, just a few scenes at the beginning and the movie’s end.

In a recent interview on The Playlist’s podcast, The Discourse, Morena Baccarin talked about her new thriller Elevation with Anthony Mackie and shared thoughts on what changed between Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine.

She joked at first, saying, “Yeah, I was hardly on set. That was the big difference.” After that, she explained more about the changes behind the scenes and during filming.

Yeah, I was hardly onset. That was the big difference. No, I’m kidding. It was a huge film in general. You know, Marvel is a big studio and they do things a certain way. So it did feel very different from [the others]. I mean, you have to remember the first film was essentially an independent, big-budget film, relatively speaking.

But not at the scale of what it is now. And we were making this film that was a little odd – like it was our sense of humor, but are other people going to think it’s funny? So it felt very, very different and very indie at the time, actually.

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