It takes someonereally freaking scary to intimidateboth Deadpool and Wolverine.
Its got to be someone powerful, someone cunning, someone who has a connection to their past.
And portraying Cassandra inDeadpool & Wolverineis Emma Corrin.
Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine.Marvel Studios
Later this year, youll see them inRobert Eggers highly anticipatedNosferatu.
But first, Corrin sat down with io9 to talk all thingsDeadpool & Wolverine.
They wanted her to be a really unpredictable villain.
Cassandra and her mutants inDeadpool & Wolverine. – Marvel Studios
They didnt want her to be a traditional Marvel villain.
io9: We know shes a telepath and thats not always easy to convey on screen.
Corrin:Yeah, exactly.
Inside her lair – Marvel Studios
Corrin:No, I did.
io9: With that history, comes a lot of other MCU villains.
Corrin:Um, I tried not to think about it, really.
io9: Okay so that kind of maybe plays into this.
Corrin:I think to switch up the tone.
Yeah, so it was a really interesting thing to balance those two things.
What can you tease about that?
Corrin: I cant tease anything.
io9: All right.
Now, Cassandra was created by Grant Morrison, who is non-binary, as are you.
What does it mean as a non-binary person to portray a character created by a non-binary writer?
Corrin:I mean, its a huge honor.
Yeah, its a huge honor to be joining the MCU as a whole.
I mean, its full of extraordinary characters, most of whom are misfits and a bit different.
The stories all explore belonging, right?
And how we just all want to belong.
So, yeah, its very cool.
Tell me a little bit about your role in that, and what it was like filming it.
Deadpool & Wolverineis out July 26.
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