{"id":56511,"date":"2022-01-16T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=56511"},"modified":"2022-04-20T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:47:41","slug":"john-cena-talks-brief-try-for-deadpool-2-role-that-ended-in-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=56511","title":{"rendered":"John Cena had brief try for DEADPOOL 2 role before landing PEACEMAKER."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Not John Cena. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“I can’t tell you how many superhero roles I’ve been rejected for,” said John Cena<\/strong> (The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker)<\/em> on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused<\/a><\/strong> podcast. Shazam<\/em> is certainly one. There was a brief try at the Deadpool<\/em> universe; rejection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cena confirmed to Horowitz that it was for the role of Cable<\/strong> in DEADPOOL 2<\/strong><\/a>, which went to another Josh, Josh Brolin<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying he did, and now he’s the DCEU’s Peackmaker with an HBO Max series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I can’t tell you how many superhero roles I’ve been rejected for,” said John Cena…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-deadpool-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DP2-Cable.jpg?fit=2048%2C1322&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}