Dafne Keen Had a Great Time Lying About Star Wars and Marvel

It’s the summertime of Keen and we didn’t adjacent cognize it. After a small, but impactful relation connected the latest Star Wars show, The Acoylte, Dafne Keen just showed up successful the caller trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, reprising her relation from Logan. That’s 2 large roles successful 2 big-time franchises with 1 large nexus too merchandise proximity: she had to prevarication astir some of them.

For The Acolyte, Keen had to enactment similar her Jedi Padawan, Jecki Lon, didn’t instrumentality three lightsabers stabs to the chest halfway done the series. For Deadpool & Wolverine, she couldn’t adjacent uncover she was successful it. Until now.

“I had a large clip keeping it secret,” Keen told Entertainment Weekly. “I had to bash a clump of property for a occupation [The Acolyte] that I conscionable finished. I got asked successful each interview, and I conscionable got to lie, which was truly funny.” Keen said that to bash that, she turned to an histrion who, a fewer years back, became infamous for doing the aforesaid thing. “All the inspo comes from Andrew Garfield,” Keen said. “He is the maestro astatine this.”

Keen really said she got the telephone astir returning to the relation of X-23 aft a afloat time of filming and stunt training, presumably for The Acolyte. She didn’t cognize her cause had been negotiating the woody for a month. “I instantly screamed,” Keen said. “I dropped my telephone successful the bath. I had to enactment it successful rice; it was a full thing.”

Of course, we don’t yet cognize what relation X-23 plays successful Deadpool & Wolverine but from the little uncover successful the trailer, it surely seems similar she’s go thing of a mentor for this caller mentation of Logan. “It was fantastic to get to travel backmost to [the narration betwixt she and Logan] and research that arsenic a grownup, present knowing parental rage truthful overmuch much and bringing that to the array for her,” Keen said. “I recovered that Laura successful Logan stumbled into having a dada and past having mislaid her dad, we find her again truly knowing however to appreciate—and with this benignant of wiseness to her—how overmuch her begetter means to her.”

Deadpool & Wolverine opens adjacent week. The Acolyte is present streaming but, hey, if you’re lone watching for Keen? You tin halt 5 episodes in.

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