Though the pansexuality of Wade Wilson has been regularly hinted at in the course of his two movies, it’s his reluctant ally Negasonic Teenage Warhead who holds the honor of being the first openly Lgbtq superhero in a major comic book film, with Deadpool 2 providing the character with a relentlessly cheery girlfriend named Yukio.
The inclusion of this same-sex relationship earned the endorsement of media monitoring organization GLAAD, and actress Brianna Hildebrand seems pretty happy herself about how it turned out. Speaking to Red Carpet News TV, the star recalled giving her enthusiastic approval when her colleague ran the idea past her.
“[Star and co-writer Ryan Reynolds] sent me an email about it while they were in the writing process asking if I would mind if they gave Negasonic a girlfriend, and I was like, ‘Mind? I’m ecstatic about that.’”
All the same, Hildebrand did have one suggestion about how the relationship was portrayed,...
The inclusion of this same-sex relationship earned the endorsement of media monitoring organization GLAAD, and actress Brianna Hildebrand seems pretty happy herself about how it turned out. Speaking to Red Carpet News TV, the star recalled giving her enthusiastic approval when her colleague ran the idea past her.
“[Star and co-writer Ryan Reynolds] sent me an email about it while they were in the writing process asking if I would mind if they gave Negasonic a girlfriend, and I was like, ‘Mind? I’m ecstatic about that.’”
All the same, Hildebrand did have one suggestion about how the relationship was portrayed,...
- 8/18/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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