{"id":628832,"date":"2024-07-26T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/deadpool-wolverine-star-dafne-keen-breaks-down-her-emotional-reunion-with-hugh-jackman\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:30:00","slug":"deadpool-wolverine-star-dafne-keen-breaks-down-her-emotional-reunion-with-hugh-jackman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/deadpool-wolverine-star-dafne-keen-breaks-down-her-emotional-reunion-with-hugh-jackman\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Deadpool & Wolverine\u2019 Star Dafne Keen Breaks Down Her Emotional Reunion with Hugh Jackman\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n [This story does not<\/span> contain major spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>. But it does contain spoilers for The Acolyte.<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n 24 hours after Dafne Keen performed the tragic demise of her Star Wars<\/em>: The Acolyte <\/em>Jedi, she was reviving her signature role from Logan<\/em> in Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n At age 11, Keen played Laura\/X-23, the cloned daughter of Hugh Jackman\u2019s Logan\/Wolverine, in James Mangold\u2019s revered superhero neo-Western. On account of the character\u2019s immedia<\/a>te popularity, there was talk of a potential X-23 spinoff, but she was soon lost in the shuffle of the Disney-Fox merger that began nine months after Logan<\/em>\u2019s March 2017 release. The Oscar-nominated film also served as Hugh Jackman\u2019s farewell to his defining role, and the absence of Keen\u2019s \u201canchor being\u201d only lessened her chances of continuing on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, the merger eventually gave way to the MCU\u2019s Multiverse Saga, allowing for just about any combination of Marvel characters to exist in the same frame.<\/p>\n

\n Years later, in September 2022, Jackman and Ryan Reynolds announced that the former would reprise the role of Wolverine in Shawn Levy\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>, and the involvement of Keen\u2019s character became all but inevitable. Jackman may not be portraying the same version of Logan that met a tearful end in his eponymously titled film, but the connection between mutant father and daughter still transcends universes.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cShawn [Levy] told me this lovely story about him reading this scene where Deadpool was telling Wolverine about X\u201323, and thinking, \u2018Maybe we should just have X-23,\u2019\u201d Keen tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cShe\u2019s a big emotional motor for Wolverine, and Wolverine is her entire emotional motor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Naturally, Keen has had Mangold in mind since the early days of her Marvel return. After all, he gave her the biggest break of her young career, beating out a who\u2019s who of child actors in the 10- to- 12-year-old range at the time. The two then addressed the subject at Star Wars Celebration in April 2023, as Keen was there to promote The Acolyte<\/em>, while Mangold was on hand to talk Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/em> and his upcoming Star Wars<\/em> film, Dawn of the Jedi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cJim and I saw each other at Star Wars Celebration, and \u2026 he was like, \u2018I heard you\u2019re in Deadpool<\/em>.\u2019 So we spoke about it, but we chat every so often. He\u2019s good,\u201d Keen shares. \u201cBut I hope Jim likes Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>. I would hate it if he didn\u2019t like it. I look up to him very much creatively.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> winds up being a heartfelt tribute to the bygone eras of Marvel cinema, especially 20th Century Fox\u2019s Marvel universe. Thus, the film\u2019s multiverse exploits are impossible to see coming.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI had a FaceTime with Shawn a week after I was cast, and he was like, \u2018I can\u2019t tell you who they are yet, but all of your scenes are with iconic Hollywood actors,\u2019\u201d Keen says. \u201cI was filming [Whistle<\/em>] in Toronto, and then they sent me back [to Deadpool<\/em>]. I took a flight on Thursday and landed [in London] on Friday afternoon, and I immediately drove straight, with suitcase, to set. I then went to Ryan\u2019s trailer, and we all did a read-through and watched the first 15 minutes of the film. I was just completely delirious and jet lagged in a room with Hollywood\u2019s brightest \u2026 So it was the most surreal moment of my life, and I was just so terrified. I couldn\u2019t believe my life, and I just sat next to Hugh and was like, \u2018Please protect me. This is insane.\u2019 But everyone was hilarious and lovely and so normal. It was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Below, during a recent conversation with THR<\/em>, Keen also discusses how surprised she was to hear that Disney\u2019s marketing team was revealing her confidential role a week ahead of release. Then she offers her thoughts on Osha\u2019s \u201cback-stabby\u201d choice in The Acolyte<\/em>\u2019s season finale.<\/p>\n

\n Well, you\u2019ve been keeping a lot of secrets the last year and a half or so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I have!<\/p>\n

\n What was the timeline of<\/strong> The Acolyte<\/em><\/strong> versus <\/strong>Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n They were very back to back. Spoiler alert, my Acolyte<\/em> character dies in [episode five], so I shot my death and was immediately in [Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>] fittings the day after my death scene. I was still shooting other stuff [for The Acolyte<\/em>], but while I was shooting, I was doing fittings and stuff for Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>. So I got the call for Deadpool<\/em> while we were shooting the second or third episode of the show, and when we wrapp<\/a>ed, I immediately went into stunt training with them. I then did two scenes before the SAG-AFTRA strike happened, and then I came back in December.<\/p>\n

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Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen attend the Deadpool & Wolverine World Premiere at the David H. Koch\u00a0Theater on July 22, 2024 in New York City. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Who was the first person to raise the subject of Laura\u2019s return?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I am not really sure, but I\u2019ve spoken to Shawn [Levy] about this. I think it was a question of how they were going to approach telling Wolverine\u2019s story after Logan<\/em> without ruining the legacy Logan<\/em> had left. Shawn told me this lovely story about him reading this scene where Deadpool was telling Wolverine about X\u201323, and thinking, \u201cMaybe we should just have X-23.\u201d To me, she\u2019s a big emotional motor for Wolverine, and Wolverine is her entire emotional motor. So the thought process behind it is that she brings a lot of humanity and empathy to his character, and after they all thought of it together, I was very, very lucky to get that phone call.<\/p>\n

\n Manny Jacinto<\/strong> recently told me about the time you referred to him as a \u201cstunt god\u201d at Star Wars Celebration, which he had to walk back.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I did say that!<\/p>\n

\n Did you ever get close to revealing your own classified information?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Every time they asked me, \u201cWhere is your character going this season?\u201d it was always hard to not say how excited I was about Jecki\u2019s death scene. I always find that the characters who get to epically die are the coolest. I like when a character goes out like a badass, and my character went out like a badass. I got to do a sick fight with double sabers, and she really held her own before dying in a really epic, sudden, tragic way. So I really wanted to tell everyone about that, and I did almost reveal it a bunch of times. But, in my defense, the \u201cstunt god\u201d thing was prompted by Charlie Barnett. I will not take the blame for that. That was all Charlie, and I slipped. So I apologized, but that was Charlie Barnett\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

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The Stranger (Manny Jacinto) and Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon (Dafne Keen) in The Acolyte<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n You were also keeping the <\/strong>Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> secret while sitting next to Charlie and Manny during <\/strong>Acolyte<\/em><\/strong> press, and people kept asking you about the movie. Did Charlie and Manny figure out that you were in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n They knew I was back. I told Charlie while we were filming; Charlie is one of my closest friends in real life. And it\u2019s all Disney, so everyone on [The Acolyte<\/em>] knew that I was in it. If you look closely at the interviews, there\u2019s one interview that Charlie sent to me where it\u2019s so obvious that [the reporter] knew, and the three of us were so awkward. They were like, \u201cWhat are you doing for [the movie]?\u201d And I was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to go watch it.\u201d And they were like, \u201cWe can all go watch it together!\u201d But I had a great time lying about it, and it was a long time coming. Every time I did press for the last year and a half, I was asked about Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>, so it\u2019s nice to finally talk about it.<\/p>\n

\n At the Acolyte<\/em> junket, I brought up the fact that Leslye Headland wanted to see Laura with a lightsaber, and then I asked you if you were amazed that your 11-year-old self is still paying dividends all these years later. And you <\/strong>replied<\/strong>, \u201cYeah, she keeps getting me roles.\u201d So Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> must\u2019ve been the reason why you used the plural form of role?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Yes, it was me making a little secret joke there that you\u2019d get months later. But, also, very luckily, I was a part of this movie [Logan<\/em>] that people are still talking about seven years later. When I go into audition rooms, I still get asked about what it was like to work with Jim [Mangold] and Hugh [Jackman] and Patrick [Stewart]. That set was such a school. I got to act with the incredible Patrick Stewart, the incomparable Hugh Jackman, and while I barely had scenes with these other actors, we had an incredible cast with people like Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant and Boyd Holbrook. So I learned so much on that set, and it\u2019s so incredible that people are still talking about it. I owe my entire career to that job, from a projection point to also a creative and growth point. The fact that I got my first big job with a cast that talented really shaped me as an actor.<\/p>\n

\n Of course, you don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s permission, but did you still email Jim Mangold and give him a heads-up so that he didn\u2019t hear about your return through the grapevine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Jim and I saw each other at Star Wars Celebration, and he mentioned it to me. He was like, \u201cI heard you\u2019re in Deadpool<\/em>.\u201d And I was like, \u201cYeah.\u201d So we spoke about it, but we chat every so often. He\u2019s good. He obviously had his amazing trailer [for A Complete Unknown<\/em>] come out yesterday. I\u2019m really excited about it. I\u2019m actually<\/em> going to watch it. That\u2019s not me making up another line to distract from me being in it. (Laughs<\/em>.) But I hope Jim likes Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>. I would hate it if he didn\u2019t like it. I look up to him very much creatively.<\/p>\n

\n For what it\u2019s worth, I was very pleased with how well the movie honors <\/strong>Logan<\/em><\/strong>. Were you expecting Disney\u2019s marketing team to reveal Laura ahead of release?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n No, it was huge. I was literally doing flat viewings, and I got a text from Shawn while they were in Rio. Both our signals were really bad, so we kept sending really jagged messages to each other. He was like, \u201cDafne, call me when you\u2019re free.\u201d And I was like, \u201cI\u2019m free now.\u201d And then he was like, \u201cDafne, call me when you\u2019re free.\u201d And I was like, \u201cI just texted you.\u201d And then he was like, \u201cDafne, call me when you\u2019re free.\u201d So I was freaking out, and I actually sent him a screenshot of all the messages. I was like, \u201cWhat is going on, Shawn? Please ring me right now.\u201d And then he rang me and was like, \u201cI\u2019m in Rio, and the signal is really bad. I just wanted to tell you before anyone else tells you that we\u2019re revealing you tomorrow.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWhat!?\u201d So we spoke about it, and we were both very excited for it, but I couldn\u2019t believe it. I thought I was going to be a secret. There were talks of me going to the premiere and pretending to be Hugh\u2019s plus-one, which would\u2019ve been hilarious. Everyone would\u2019ve been like, \u201cWhat the fuck is this kid doing here? Obviously, you\u2019re in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n As we see in the trailer, Laura has a very dramatic scene with Wolverine near a campfire, and she concludes by saying, \u201cYou were always the wrong guy \u2014 till you weren\u2019t.\u201d Was it still emotional for the two of you even though you and your characters both knew that it technically wasn\u2019t the same Logan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Yeah, that was a really fun thing for me to play. Imagine losing your only father figure in life, only to reunite with your father almost ten years later, but he doesn\u2019t know that you are his daughter and he doesn\u2019t have that bond with you in return. So it\u2019s heartbreaking and beautiful that they are almost father and daughter in every universe. As soon as they meet each other, he feels comfortable enough to have that conversation with her. I don\u2019t think he would\u2019ve had that conversation with anyone else, and she wouldn\u2019t have had that conversation with anyone else either. So it was a really lovely thing to play, because, even if he doesn\u2019t know her, he does<\/em> know her. They\u2019re one and the same. So it was a really emotional day for me and Hugh. We were at this campfire, and we\u2019d done scenes at a campfire in Logan<\/em>. We were in a forest, and we\u2019d done a bunch of forest scenes in Logan<\/em>. The last time we\u2019d acted together was his death scene [in Logan<\/em>], I think, and now we were back doing this. It was a night shoot, and you\u2019re already delirious because it\u2019s 3:00 AM, but it was still a very emotional day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n You found yourself on a couple sets with a very unexpected group of people. We can\u2019t say their names yet, but did you hear ahead of time who you\u2019d be sharing scenes with? Or was it top secret till the day?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I had a FaceTime with Shawn a week after I was cast, and he was like, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you who they are yet, but all of your scenes are with iconic Hollywood actors.\u201d And I was like, \u201cOkay, whatever.\u201d (Laughs<\/em>.) So I don\u2019t think anyone told me. And then, a few weeks before we shot, I went into production and I saw the costume designs with them. And I was like, \u201cI wonder if it\u2019s them.\u201d I then had a fitting right after one of the cameos, and I was like, \u201cAre my scenes with him?\u201d They weren\u2019t; it was just another random, but crazy, cameo.<\/p>\n

\n I shot a horror film [Whistle<\/em>] during the strikes; it had an [interim agreement]. But Deadpool<\/em> obviously had preference because I\u2019d already been doing it before [Whistle<\/em>]. So I was filming that in Toronto, and then they sent me back [to Deadpool<\/em>]. I took a flight on Thursday and landed [in London] on Friday afternoon, and I immediately drove straight, with suitcase, to set. I then went to Ryan\u2019s trailer, and we all did a read-through and watched the first 15 minutes of the film. I was just completely delirious and jet lagged in a room with Hollywood\u2019s brightest doing a read-through. So it was the most surreal moment of my life, and I was just so terrified. I couldn\u2019t believe my life, and I just sat next to Hugh and was like, \u201cPlease protect me. This is insane.\u201d But everyone was hilarious and lovely and so normal. It was amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n When was your first proper reunion with Hugh?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n The first reunion we had was after I had the costume fitting where I met the random cameo. I was halfway through the fitting and they were like, \u201cHugh is on stage next door and he really wants to see you. Can you just rush out?\u201d I was trying on jeans, so I had tags hanging off me, but I was like, \u201cYeah, sure!\u201d I then ran over while they were approving a set, and I just walked in and Hugh was like, \u201cOh my god, it\u2019s you!\u201d And then we hugged, and it was really crazy because we hadn\u2019t seen each other in ages. He was like, \u201cOh my God, you\u2019re so tall.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWell, you haven\u2019t seen me since I was 12.\u201d (Laughs<\/em>.) So we hugged, but it was very quick because we were both being rushed.<\/p>\n

\n And then, as I was leaving, my car got stopped. They were like, \u201cShawn, Ryan and Hugh would love for you to read a scene with them.\u201d And I was like, \u201cRight now?\u201d So we went and read the scene, and it was really fun and nice. The picture<\/a> that Hugh posted of us was taken in that little room. And then our first scene together was not the campfire scene. That was the second scene we shot. The first scene we shot was a very random one that Hugh and I barely have dialogue in, so we just got to catch up off camera, which was really sweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Did they have to make new glasses, or did you rummage through your closet to find your box of <\/strong>Logan<\/em><\/strong> stuff?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n (Laughs<\/em>.) They made me new ones. I think we tried a model of the old ones, but they looked ridiculously small on my face. Everyone was like, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s silly. We\u2019re not doing that.\u201d But we did make new glasses, and that was my favorite bit of the costume. I also have a belt that has an X on it, which I really liked.<\/p>\n

\n Laura\u2019s ground fighting and wire work had a very specific look back in the day, and <\/strong>Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> managed to have your adult self move in the way you once moved as a kid. Was recreating your <\/strong>Logan<\/em><\/strong> movement and style actually a priority from the start?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Yeah, one of the first things that happened was stunt training, and they did a physical assessment to see how in shape I was. Luckily, I\u2019d just come off of Star<\/em> Wars<\/em>, so I was nimble. And the second conversation we had was like, \u201cDo you want to show us what you did? This is kind of what we wanted to do, but this is your character. You\u2019ve played her before. Teach us how she moves and how she would do these things.\u201d I also had the most amazing double, Nadia [Hansell], and we basically figured out how she would be now. <\/p>\n

\n So it was very lovely, and we gave a few nods to Logan<\/em>. A lot of her physicality comes from the sound she makes when she\u2019s doing it, and because she has claws in her feet, she has much more kicking and footwork than Wolverine does. There\u2019s a little nod to Logan<\/em>\u2019s X-24 fight when she\u2019s on [Spoiler\u2019s<\/em>] back and is stabbing him. That was similar to X-24 and X-23\u2019s fight at the farmhouse. So there were a lot of little nods to Logan<\/em>, and yesterday, I actually looked through videos of stunt training for Logan<\/em> and Deadpool<\/em>. So it was really sweet to see how insanely different I looked but how similar the fights were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n When you see footage of yourself from <\/strong>Logan<\/em><\/strong>, what tends to cross your mind?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Weirdly, I was just talking to another child actor friend of mine about this. I find it really hard to watch work from the last five years of my life, whereas when I watch Logan<\/em>, I can just watch it like a home video. I had watched Logan<\/em> at the premieres, and then I watched little clips of it here and there, but then I had to rewatch the film for Deadpool<\/em>. So it was crazy to actually watch it and understand it as a grown-up. But I think it\u2019s a very universal child actor thing where all I see is memories when I watch my work as a kid. I\u2019ll watch a scene and I\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh my god, that was the day that this happened,\u201d and, \u201cOh my god, Hugh did that on set that day.\u201d Then I\u2019ll watch another scene and I\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh yeah, my mum was with me on set that day,\u201d or, \u201cThat was my dad\u2019s day.\u201d So it\u2019s very weird when I watch it now, and it\u2019s like I\u2019m watching a little journal, except it\u2019s a movie that I made. That would never happen to me now [when I watch work from the last five years].<\/p>\n

\n As for Jecki, she had a connection of sorts with Osha (Amandla Stenberg), so how do you think she would feel if she saw the end of the season where Osha joins forces with her executioner?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I think she\u2019d feel a little bit hurt. It\u2019s a bit back-stabby of Osha. I don\u2019t love that from her, but I do think Jecki would understand because she was a very compassionate person. There\u2019s a very lovely scene where you can see that Osha does care about Jecki. She\u2019s with Stranger, and she was like, \u201cYou killed Yorde.\u201d And he was like, \u201cA man who didn\u2019t hesitate to turn you in for a crime you didn\u2019t commit.\u201d And then she went, \u201cYou killed Jecki!\u201d And he was like, \u201cThat was one-sided.\u201d So I think she would understand, but from her point of view as a Jedi, she\u2019d also be like, \u201cHe\u2019s being manipulative. He\u2019s from the Dark Side.\u201d So she\u2019d be compassionate, but she\u2019d also be like, \u201cWhat the fuck? Get away from Osha.\u201d<\/p>\n

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