Emma Corrin shares surprising inspiration for Deadpool 3 villain
Emma Corrin has revealed the surprising inspiration they drew from for Deadpool & Wolverine.
The Crown star takes on the role of baddie Cassandra Nova in the upcoming Marvel movie, and has admitted they took influence from none other than Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka – aka “one of the best villains of all time”.
“There’s something extravagant in Gene Wilder’s performance,” the star told GQ.
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“And it's a similar energy that Christoph Waltz has in Inglourious Basterds, because he's wearing a uniform so he can sit there and drink a glass of milk and pretend he's a f**king fairy godmother.”
Deadpool & Wolverine will see Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman's two characters join forces as they take on Nova.
Ahead of its release later this month, director Shawn Levy recently admitted that the film is "not like any MCU movie".
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"We had no idea it would be this unique moment where people are asking what the MCU means any more," he told Total Film.
"Can it surprise us? Can it break moulds in ways that we don't expect? We certainly hope that this movie is an answer to those questions."
He added that Marvel boss Kevin Feige has built something "historic as far as a string of successes", though suggested "culture has its tide chart, culture has ebbs and flows".
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"[The] one thing we do know is you can't keep doing the same thing ad nauseam and expect people to greet it with the same excitement.
"And so it just worked out really fortuitously because our movie is not like any MCU movie. Yeah, and I say that as a fan of a lot of MCU movies."
The film has already proved a big success ahead of its release, breaking the record for the biggest first-day ticket sales for 2024 so far.
Deadpool and Deadpool 2 are streaming on Disney+. Deadpool & Wolverine opens in cinemas on July 26.
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