It was suspiciously quiet around ‘Deadpool 3’ for a long time until Ryan Reynolds dropped the bomb via Twitter in 2022: not only was it announced that the comedy hit directed by Shawn Levy (‘Free Guy’) would be released in cinemas in July 2024. must. Hugh Jackman will also reprise his iconic role as Wolverine. The expectation is therefore correspondingly high. TJ Miller (“Silicon Valley”), known as bartender Weasel from the previous “Deadpool” cast, is not at all fond of Ryan Reynolds.
Anyone who’s seen ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Deadpool 2’ knows that Weasel wasn’t an extremely important character for the two films, but as the best friend of Wade Wilson aka Deadpool he was good for a laugh or two in the role of the funny sidekick. . When TJ Miller was a guest on Adam Corolla’s Show podcast, he opened up about his relationship with Ryan Reynolds. According to Miller, the superstar has changed a lot since the success of “Deadpool”:
“I got along with him much better during the first Deadpool because he wasn’t a big movie star. Would I work with him again? No. But I said that about Michael Bay too, and now we’re friends and I’d like to work with him again. But I think Michael Bay is different.”
Speaking to Adam Corolla, TJ Miller describes a moment on the set of ‘Deadpool 2’ that is likely crucial to the rift between the two actors: ‘We had a very strange moment when we were filming ‘Deadpool 2’‘ turned. Ryan Reynolds said to me, “Let’s do one more take,” but he was incredibly mean to me as Deadpool, like I was actually Weasel. He said: “You know what’s so great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you give just enough explanation to make it funny, and then we can move on to the real movie.’”
This was probably Ryan Reynolds’ way of making it clear to TJ Miller that he wasn’t the main character, just their fun sidekick. What may have been intended as an innocent attempt at a new meta-gag seems to have hit Miller hard. Due to this bad experience, the actor does not want to return to Shawn Levy’s “Deadpool 3” – but added that there have been no requests so far. Molenaar also said: “I find it strange that he hates me. […] “I’m at the point in my life where I’m not doing Deadpool 3 anymore.”
It has also been no secret for years that TJ Miller himself does not seem to be a very social personality. In 2018, he left the HBO series ‘Silicon Valley’ after four seasons. His then colleague Alice Wetterlund described TJ Miller as ‘cruel’ and a ‘short-tempered brat’. Miller, who is also an active comedian, was last seen opposite Drew Barrymore in the romantic comedy “The Stand-In.”