Director Shawn Levy claims that Henry Cavill was so dedicated to his guest appearance in Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine that he even became ill after smoking cigars for the part. The Man of Steel star was “sick to his stomach,” the director stated in a recent interview with The New York Times, after breathing in cigar smoke for “eight hours straight” while recording his minor role as the Cavillrine, a Wolverine clone.
“Not only had that pumped-up muscular body but kept that cigar lit and in his mouth for the entirety of the shoot day,” Levy reminisced. “I remember hearing the next day that Henry was sick to his stomach because he had been inhaling cigar smoke for eight hours straight, but never once did he waver.” As Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool searches the multiverse for other incarnations of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine to join forces with, he encounters the Cavillrine. Cavill’s was the only deviation, as Jackman performed in the majority of the versions. “Can I please point out that Ryan brilliantly named Henry Cavill’s Logan ‘the Cavillrine’?” Levy continued.
The filmmaker further stated that Cavill’s appointment provided a means of alluding to the startling revelation made in 2022 that the star would not be playing Superman in the upcoming DC world, which will be run by James Gunn and Peter Safran. “In the case of Henry, it was not long after everything went down with DC and word came that Henry was being replaced as Superman,” Levy elaborated. “Given that Deadpool is in constant conversation with culture, it felt like a great opportunity to first of all cast Henry Cavill in a part that he would kick ass at, but also to poke fun at that other comic-book-founded movie studio and play with some self-awareness there.”
