Vinnie Jones has had a remarkable career and now stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen series for Netflix, but many comic book movie fans remember him as the not-very-good live-action Juggernaut we got in X-Men: The Last Stand, a character that sounded like a perfect Fox-era cameo for Deadpool & Wolverine. However, it sounds like that ain’t happening.
The British actor revealed to Yahoo UK that he was approached by director Shawn Levy to cameo in the Marvel Studios-produced threequel, but declined because it’s “such a drama putting that suit on mentally and physically.”
If the suggested cameo involved a variation of the suit he wore in the third X-Men movie and maybe some CGI work, that doesn’t sound like a terrible hassle when you consider what other mutant-embodying actors had to go through. “I mean it had its mental toll as well because you’re in it and you can’t do anything all day, you can only drink through a straw. So we couldn’t strike the deal for Deadpool,” he added, suggesting the right amount of money would have sold him on the idea. Jones has just turned 59 this year and hasn’t struggled with work recently, so we can understand where he’s coming from. This doesn’t rule out a Juggernaut appearance similar to Deadpool 2’s (voiced by Ryan Reynolds himself) though.
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