John Cena had brief try for DEADPOOL 2 role before landing PEACEMAKER.

“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!