DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Emma Corrin and Co-Stars Tease Cassandra Nova's Danger and Unexpected Inspiration
Deadpool & Wolverine has had fun releasing little tidbits of information about the film’s characters and story. We’ve gotten an awesome trailer, and some spoiler-free synopses, but the details of what or who the two stars will be up against are fuzzy.
We know Emma Corrin is playing the villainous Cassandra Nova, who is theorized to be the twisted twin sister of Professor X, but this hasn’t been confirmed. If the theory is true, and the character killed the X-Men before being pruned, it would make sense that Nova is a threat to the heroes and perhaps even the wider Multiverse.
Corrin opened up about the role, alongside their co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in a recent profile in Harper's Bazaar, where the actor confirmed that Christoph Waltz's character Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was a key source of inspiration.
"Because he’s in that uniform, that says everything you need to know. He can sit down at the table and just chat like we’re doing now, be animated, very pleasant. It's so unnerving because he’s as evil as they get, the worst person on the planet. He is the opposite of a scary villain; he lets his physicality do the talking, and then he flips the other parts on their head."
Jackman said of his co-star, "Emma has an ability to so subtly change - to turn on a dime. There was an effortlessness, a sense of danger." Reynolds went into further detail, saying:
"It felt like working with a skin-covered Swiss Army knife. Emma brought a Gene Wilder energy to Deadpool & Wolverine. Mischief, danger, unpredictability - from their first scene onward, we understand the villain enough to know why she's motivated to oppose our heroes. And that’s because Emma is so [frick]ing excellent at humanizing even the most chaotic lines. The only thing we love more than hating a villain is loving one. And we love Emma’s Cassandra Nova from the jump."
He concludes by calling Corrin "one of the greatest partners I’ve ever had in the Deadpool sandbox,” teasing, “You heard me, Jackman..."
Deadpool & Wolverine is set to his theaters on July 26th! Tickets are available now.