Nathan Fillion Reveals How Deadpool & Wolverine Cameo Came To Be

Nathan Fillion has racked up a dozen superhero movie credits since 2009, with his latest being Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in James Gunn’s Superman. However, fans may be surprised to learn that Fillion lent his voice to Headpool in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

Fillion’s superhero credits may have begun on the small screen as the voice of Vigilante in Justice League Unlimited, but he’s best known for being one of the main voice actors for Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in DC animated movies. He voiced the character in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011), Justice League: Doom (2012), Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015), The Death of Superman (2018), and Reign of the Supermen (2019). He also voiced Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2009), played T.D.K. in The Suicide Squad (2021), and made cameos in all three of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies (although his scenes in Vol. 2 were ultimately cut).

What did Nathan Fillion say about his Deadpool & Wolverine cameo?

While speaking with Entertainment Weekly about joining the DC Universe as Guy Gardner in Superman, Fillion opened up about how he ended up as the voice of Headpool in Deadpool & Wolverine, revealing that it can be traced back to 2016 during production on the first Deadpool.

“I was actually in the first Deadpool. My scene got cut out,” Fillion recalled. “You’ll have to remember I was filming Castle at the time. It had to be a very small part, and I requested that I be unrecognizable. It’s in a deleted scenes thing. I think you can get it if you buy the movie digitally.” Fillion’s scene, where he played the towel guy at the strip club where Morena Baccarin’s Vanessa worked, is included as one of the movie’s bonus features on the home video release.

Fillion then revealed that Ryan Reynolds “asked me to come in and audition for something in the second Deadpool, which was very generous of him. We’re still in touch. He’s a very generous man, and he’s very interested in sharing the wealth, honestly. He’s got so many incredible opportunities, and he likes to remember his friends and spread those opportunities around.”

However, nothing materialized until Deadpool & Wolverine, when Reynolds asked Fillion to come in and voice a character as a favor to him. “Like I’m doing him a favor,” the actor remarked. “We recorded a bunch of different stuff. We started at one character, then we moved over to being Headpool, and then we were futzing the jokes.”

Fillion is one of the few actors to have appeared in the DC Extended Universe, the DCU, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadpool & Wolverine is available to stream on Disney+, while Superman is playing in theaters around the world.

Originally reported by Lee Freitag on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net