“I had a great time keeping it secret,” the actress admits in an interview with EW.
Old Man Logan’s feral lil' ass-kicking surrogate daughter is officially back!
Only she’s not quite so lil' anymore.
Dafne Keen’s X-23 in ‘Logan’.20th Century Fox Film Corp / Courtesy Everett
X-23, as played byThe Acolyte’sDafne Keen.
“I had a great time keeping it secret.
“All the inspo comes from Andrew Garfield,” Keen says.
Dafne Keen returns as Laura/X-23 in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’.Ryan Reynolds/X
“He is the master at this.”
Multiple other characters from past X-Men moviesare making their way into Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe withDeadpool & Wolverine.
“It was very much a reality that then kind of fell through,” she says.
“There were talks of a script being made.
I’d heard it was an X-23 [movie].
“I was quite sad,” she recalls of that moment.
“I was like, ‘Oh well, I guess that’s it.
I peaked at 11.”
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Not so!
“I immediately screamed,” Keen continues.
“I dropped my phone in the bath.
I had to put it in rice; it was a whole thing.”
Keen admits there were nerves in returning to a role she played eight years earlier as a child.
“I was a bit freaked out,” she says of getting to set.
“I was like, ‘I will have forgotten how to play her.
She’s not in me anymore.'”
Keen rewatchedLoganin preparation, trying to remember what she was doing as a young performer.
“We went straight into this pretty intense scene.
I know I was freaking out,” she adds.
“As soon as they said, ‘Rolling!’
I really felt like we were back doingLogan.
It was like eight years hadn’t passed.”
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“I had to include that.”
I found that Laura inLoganstumbled into having a dad and then having lost her dad.
But, of course, Laura is still Laura.
She’s still a physical and feral character.
“That’s how I found her again,” Keen says.
“There wasn’t a lot of looking [for her].
She was just kind of in me.
The first thing I did forDeadpoolwas stunt training before I shot anything.
I put on the costume and was like, ‘Oh!
She’s back.'”
Deadpool & Wolverineopens in theaters July 26.
