Deadpool and Wolverine's script references Henry Cavill's iconic Mission: Impossible arm reloading scene – and it actually made it into the movie
Dec. 2, 2024The Cavillrine shows off his trademark move
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Among the dialogue and directions, though, is a major giveaway for anyone who was lucky enough to see the pages early: the character ‘loads his arms Mission Impossible style’, a cheeky reference to Henry Cavill’s character Walker doing the same thing during a bathroom fight scene in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
“Everything starts to get quite sore after a while, because it’s a lot of repetitive motion. And the connective tendons in my biceps were getting sore, so I had to warm them up before I threw punches. I would literally do that to warm them up,” Cavill explained on theHappy Sad Confused podcast.
Cavill continued, “I did it once, and I thought ‘oh, god that probably looked really stupid’… And I said, ‘oh sorry [to director Christopher McQuarrie], I’ll do that again.’ And he’s like, ‘do what?… And then I did another take without doing it, and he’s like, ‘why didn’t you do that thing? That was really good.’ And I was like, ‘that was good?’ And he said, ‘yes! Definitely do that.’ And we did.”
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