‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Script Reveals NSFW Mickey Mouse Joke Disney Asked To Cut
deadline.comAlthough the censors let plenty fly in Deadpool & Wolverine, one joke was a bit too personal for the folks at Disney. After the mega Marvel crossover film dominated theaters in July, the official script on Disney’s FYC website reveals the line that even Ryan Reynolds was too nervous to speak during the press tour. “F—!
What we can’t even afford one more X-Man?” reads the line intended for Reynolds’ Deadpool. “Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse c— in my throat.” Although the majority of the line stayed, the last sentence was changed to: “I got Pinocchio jammed in my ass, and he’s lying like crazy.” While appearing at September’s Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York, Reynolds explained, “There was only one line in the entire film that they asked me to take out.” Although the crowd was eager to hear the line, Reynolds refused. “No.
No. No! And they were right!” he said at the time. “As soon as somebody says something like, ‘Ryan, Bob Iger here. Would love it if you’d take that one line out.
It’s really going to make our life hard over here.’ As soon as they say that, there’s just something in my brain that goes, ‘Must keep line!
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