Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.
From stage to screen,Hugh Jackmanhas been entertaining audiences for decades. To so many of us,the actor will always be Wolverine,but his sprawling musical theater background makes him someone entirely different to the theater nerds amongst us (of which I also am). On Broadway, the actor has starred inBeauty and the Beast,The Boy from Oz,Oklahoma!, andmost recently,The Music Man, while, on the big screen, he’s kept his musical chops strong through performances in titles likeThe Greatest Showman. So, whenRyan ReynoldsandShawn Levywere developingDeadpool & Wolverine, which sees Jackman return to his role of the belovedX-Mencharacter, they couldn’t help but toss in a few nods to his strong theatrical background.
Many fans have already pointed out the sounds ofThe Greatest Showmanplaying through the Honda Odyssey’s incomparable stereo system duringthatfight scene, but here’s one you likely missed. The songs of angry men may have been blasting in that particular part of the movie, but Reynolds revealed that nothing kill the dream he dreamed of dropping aLes MisérablesEaster egg intoDeadpool & Wolverine. During a spoiler-filled chat with Collider’s editor-in-chief,Steve Weintraub, Reynolds shared how they snuck a nod to Jackman’s character, Jean Valjean, fromthe 2012 cinematic adaptation, into the third installment in theDeadpoolfranchise.
“I’ll give this one away. You know, when I punt Wolverine’s adamantium skull toward camera, and I say ‘Maradona goal!’ and it goes up — if you really look closely, you’ll see thathis prisoner number from Les Mis is engravedin the back of the throat of the skull as it comes toward you. 24601… It’s little things like that. AndI just love sharing those things with Hugh. I love being like, ‘Hey, pay close attention to the skull, what do you see?’ … You just see his face kind of light up. It was just great.”
Fans Have A LOT of Easter Eggs To Look Out For
So, just how many Easter eggs arenestled throughout the actionofDeadpool & Wolverine? The extra-meta movie has so many that Reynolds and Levy aren’t expecting fans to catch them all for quite some time — if ever. The former says he thinks there are “hundreds”just waiting to be found, while the latter says he’s “keeping an eye on social media because some stuff is being called out.” Still, Levy promises that it will take a few rewatches before they all come to light, adding, “Some of them are subtle and will only become apparent through a very attentive rewatch.”
See if you can add all the Easter eggs to your basket asDeadpool & Wolverineis now playing in theaters. And don’t miss the rest of our chat with Reynolds and Levy here at Collider.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Wolverine joins the “merc with a mouth” in the third installment of the Deadpool film franchise.
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