Who’s playing Lady Deadpool? There are 3 suspects

❘ Updated: 2024-07-22T14:35:31

Blake Lively, Taylor Swift, and Lady Deadpool

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Deadpool & Wolverine promises to introduce several Deadpool variants, but there’s only one that fans are losing their mind over: Lady Deadpool.

The upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine will feature variants of Deadpool and Wolverine, including adorable characters such as Dogpool. But Lady Deadpool has already captured the hearts and minds of fans since she was first teased months ago.

First introduced in 2010’s Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #7, Lady Deadpool is originally a variant from Earth-3010, a world where America is in a perpetual state of civil war.

We don’t yet know the backstory of the MCU Lady Deadpool, let alone who plays her, but there are three obvious suspects for the role.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift seems like the most obvious choice, having long been rumored to be appearing in Deadpool & Wolverine in some capacity.

Earliest reports indicated she would be playing a version of the X-Men‘s pop superstar Dazzler, but later reports hinted that she would be Lady Deadpool. It didn’t help that she was spied in a skybox at a Chiefs game with Reynolds and director Shawn Levy.

Of course, it’s less likely than ever that Taylor Swift will even appear in the movie. The Eras singer has obviously been incredibly busy. A previous report by Entertainment Weekly even shut down rumors that she would be appearing.

Nonetheless, fans are convinced the pop icon will appear in the film in some capacity.

Blake Lively

If Swift is out, there’s one pretty reasonable runner-up for the role: Blake Lively. The former Gossip Girl actress has been rumored to appear as Lady Deadpool since February.

Lively makes a lot of sense, considering she’s the long-time wife of Ryan Reynolds, who stars as Deadpool. If Lively does play Lady Deadpool, it will make for something of a reunion, as the two have not been on-screen together since they met in 2011’s box office disaster Green Lantern.

Ryan Reynolds in a wig

OK, if Taylor Swift and Blake Lively are both too busy for a Lady Deadpool cameo, then there’s only one solution. Reynolds is just going to have to do it himself. It would, bizarrely, make a lot of sense for Reynolds to throw on a wig and play Lady Deadpool himself.

Wanda Wilson in the comics is just a variant of Wade, after all. Considering Reynolds is already expected to play most of the other variants, it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for him to get in touch with his more feminine side. Besides, he’s already wearing a wig in some scenes.

However, Reynolds tried to debunk this theory. Not everyone believes him, though.