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It had featured GLs girlfriend being murdered and stuffed into a refrigerator by a supervillain.
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Case in point: this weekendsDeadpool 2.
The rest of the movie is powered in no small part by DPs grief over her loss.
And that was maybe our mistake, not to think about it.
But it didnt really even occur to us.
Indeed, they werent aware of this genre of criticism.
We didnt know what fridging was, Reese says.
It didnt have to be this way.
There was a road not traveled, one with less violence toward women.
In the very first drafts of the script, Vanessa didnt die, Reese continues.
She ended up breaking up with Deadpool, and he was trying to earn her back.
So, we ran with that.
And maybe thats a sexist thing.
And maybe some women will have an issue with that.
I dont think that thatll be a large concern, but it didnt even really occur to us.
Wernick hopes viewers will understand why they made the call that they did.
He doesnt see it as a gendered choice.
I know it wasnt consciously sexist, Wernick adds.
Whether its Domino, or Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Vanessa, herself, obviously, is certainly that.
So weve definitely made a point of not having this just be a testosterone-fueled thing.
