‘It could have been worse’: Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool double has an admirable take on ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’

Ryan Reynolds might have taken most of the flak for Deadpool’s descent into muted madness in the third act of X-Men Origins: Wolverine – even if he’s since tried to blame Hugh Jackman for how the dismal comic book dud turned out – but he wasn’t the one doing the heavy lifting during the movie’s climactic action scene.

Instead, genre veteran and John Wick: Chapter 4 scene-stealer Scott Adkins was the one going toe-to-toe with the mutton-chopped protagonist after being hired to fill in for Reynolds when martial arts expertise was required. Thankfully for the actor, he doesn’t tend to get recognized for his contributions to Origins given that he was hidden away and utilized as little more than a stand-in, but he doesn’t harbor the same ill will for the movie that a lot of people do.