We Now Know the Super-Raunchy Mickey Mouse Joke Disney Asked Ryan Reynolds to Cut fromDeadpool & Wolverine

Mar. 15, 2025

Deadpool; Mickey Mouse.Photo:Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios /MARVEL; Getty

Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios /MARVEL; Getty

Disney vetoed one joke from being inDeadpool & Wolverine, and now fans finally know what was deemed too-far for the studio.

Director Shawn Levy previously said there was “only one line in the entire movie that we were asked to change,” tellingEntertainment Weeklyin August that he and starRyan Reynoldsmade a “pact” to “go to our grave with that line.”

However, Marvel Studios has shared the film’s officialscreenplayonline as part of a For Your Consideration campaign this awards season, and in the script, that original deleted line is revealed.

In the scene where Deadpool (Reynolds) asks if Magneto is also in the film, he’s told the character is dead. He then says, “F—! What, we can’t even afford one more X-Man? Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse c–k in my throat.”

The actual line in the final cut of the movie is: “F—,nowDisney gets cheap? It’s like Pinocchio jammed his face in my ass and started lying like crazy.”

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in “Deadpool & Wolverine”.Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios

Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios

The screenplay’s writers include Reynolds, Levy, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Zeb Wells.

In the previousEWinterview, Levy, 56, recalled his reaction to Reynolds substituting the Mickey Mouse joke with the “equally dirty line of dialogue about Pinocchio.”

“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,” he said.

Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds on Nov. 2, 2024.Eric Charbonneau/Disney via Getty

Eric Charbonneau/Disney via Getty

There’s another line in the movie in which Deadpool says that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige made cocaine jokes “off limits” for the movie.

Feige previously addressed that moment, tellingVariety, “I didn’t say they couldn’t. But we were talking about everybody always being afraid of Disney-fying things. This is the biggest entertainment company in the world for 100 years. You should be so lucky to Disney-fy everything!”

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In avideo for Fandango, Reynolds said he was “proud” of Disney for being on boardwith his R-rated vision on theDeadpoolsequel.

“I hope it doesn’t sound condescending, I’m really proud of them for doing this. I think it’s a huge step for them. I mean, it adds a whole other color to this kaleidoscopic wheel that is that company and the different people that they have been entertaining forever," he said, adding, “I was surprised though, that they let us go as hard-R, but very grateful. I mean there’s no other way to do it."

Deadpool & Wolverineis now streaming on Disney+.

source: people.com