‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Director Hopes Taylor Swift Fans Aren’t “Disappointed” She Doesn’t Appear

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Although Deadpool & Wolverine is stacked with star-studded cameos, one piece of fan casting never quite made it to the big screen.

Director Shawn Levy has finally addressed the speculation that star Ryan Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively‘s close pal Taylor Swift would make a cameo as Ali Blaire (aka Dazzler) in the MCU crossover film. “It was so very loud,” he told Entertainment Weekly of the casting speculation. “I definitely had moments where I was worried I would disappoint people when they realized Taylor as Dazzler was not in the movie, but there’s no controlling the internet and rumors spread like wildfire.” Levy clarified, “It was never a conversation.

It was never even a seed of a discussion. Obviously, Ryan and Blake, and myself, to a far lesser extent, have our own relationships in real life with Taylor.

But, yeah, those rumors were loud and slightly baffling, but nothing I said or did was going to make them quiet down until this movie came out.” As Swift comes off a massive year with her Eras World Tour, many fans believed she would return to the big screen as Dazzler, the vocally gifted super-heroine who can convert sound vibrations into light and energy beams.