Deadpool & Wolverine Interview: Emma Corrin on Cassandra Nova, Villains

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ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim recently spoke with (The Crown, My Policeman, A Murder at the End of the World) about her new role as the villainous Cassandra Nova in. They discussed movie villains, channeling James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart, and working with director Shawn Levy. It is officially out in theaters tomorrow, July 26.

“Six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson is retired as the mercenary Deadpool and lives a quiet life until the Time Variance Authority (TVA)—a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline—pulls him into a new mission,” reads the official synopsis. “With his home universe facing an existential threat, Wilson reluctantly joins an even more reluctant Wolverine on a mission that will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).”

: I’ve learned a lot about tone from this film and what it takes to, how unexpected it can be. Because I went in thinking that because it’s Deadpool, then all the characters are sort of very large, much larger than life, and very funny. And actually, what we realized, Shawn Levy, the director, and I as we went along, was that Cassandra really needed to be more of a straight man to Ryan’s funny antihero. But she’s also very kooky and very quirky. So, and as you say, she performs her power, her immense power, with a lot of nonchalance, which is interesting.

I did. I looked into them a little bit. I was really interested in how those actors dealt with playing a character whose power comes from a very internal place, not performed. It’s not physical, but it’s incredibly mental. Especially in the case of Patrick Stewart’s performance, you know? Yeah. I find it really interesting.

I think telepathy. Yeah.

It’s very unpredictable, and, you know, Deadpool and Wolverine come in guns blazing, literally. And they dunno what to make of this person who doesn’t; you don’t know when she’s gonna use her power. You don’t know in what form it’s gonna take. So it was