Disney would not allow Ryan Reynolds to make one specific joke about the company's flagship character, Mickey Mouse, in the box-office hit Deadpool & Wolverine.
During the summer blockbuster's press run, Reynolds told reporters that Disney removed a joke that was a little too graphic, but now fans know what that quip was. Disney's FYC online portal released the official script for the film earlier this week, and the original joke referencing Mickey's private parts is included.
According to the script, the joke happens when Deadpool finds out that Magneto has been dead for a while and shares his frustration with viewers by breaking the fourth wall to ask why Disney couldn't afford another X-Men character but can have Mickey all over their products.
"FUCK! What, we can't even afford one more X-Man? Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse cock in my throat," Deadpool says in the original script.
The film's director, Shawn Levy, told Entertainment Weekly that he made a promise with Reynolds to keep the joke a secret once it was removed. He also revealed the other dirty joke Reynolds came up with that involved Pinocchio's nose being all up in Deadpool's backside, which ultimately replaced the old one.
"There was only one line in the entire movie that we were asked to change," Levy said. "We have made a pact, Ryan and I, to go to our grave with that line, but I will say that it was replaced with an equally dirty line of dialogue about Pinocchio shoving his face up Deadpool's ass and starting to lie like crazy. I was like, 'Ryan, that's your replacement line in response to, "Can we clean it up?"' That's Ryan Reynolds for you, audacious to the very edge."
