“I can’t tell you how many superhero roles I’ve been rejected for,” said John Cena (The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker) on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. Shazam is certainly one. There was a brief try at the Deadpool universe; rejection.”
Cena confirmed to Horowitz that it was for the role of Cable in DEADPOOL 2, which went to another Josh, Josh Brolin. Josh and Josh, and John. Lots of J names. “Yeah. There was a few in the Marvel universe; rejected. But you know, I kept trying.
Trying he did, and now he’s the DCEU’s Peackmaker with an HBO Max series!
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