Henry Cavill inhaled so much cigar smoke for “Deadpool & Wolverine”, he got 'sick to his stomach,' director says

"Never once did he waver," Shawn Levy says of the former DC superhero star.

Henry Cavill's surprise cameo appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine left the actor feeling woozy but still determined to make an impact, director Shawn Levy says.

Levy recently revealed how Cavill's cameo (among others in the new film) materialized, explaining that the actor's commitment ultimately made him sick.

"In the case of Henry, it was not long after everything went down with DC, and word came that Henry was being replaced as Superman," Levy recalled to The New York Times . "Given that Deadpool is in constant conversation with culture, it felt like a great opportunity to first of all cast Henry Cavill in a part that he would kick ass at, but also to poke fun at that other comic-book-founded movie studio and play with some self-awareness there."

Cue the cigar.

In the film, Cavill plays Logan, or "the Cavillrine," as Ryan Reynolds, who plays Deadpool, dubbed the character. Logan makes his appearance as Deadpool skips through alternate dimensions trying to find a version of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) capable of replacing the one who died at the end of 2017’s Logan. Deadpool encounters Cavill's Logan smoking a cigar.

Levy was excited to see how Cavill would lean into playing Wolverine — who brings an aspect of the character from the comic books that hasn’t been highlighted much on screen — and said his commitment to the role was unmatched.

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"I think we all were, including poor Henry Cavill, who not only had that pumped-up muscular body but kept that cigar lit and in his mouth for the entirety of the shoot day," Levy recalled. "I remember hearing the next day that Henry was sick to his stomach because he had been inhaling cigar smoke for eight hours straight, but never once did he waver."

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Cavill joked about the role in an Instagram post, sharing a photo of the smoky moment and writing, "To be safe, I shaved the mustache off for this one. Just the mustache."

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Cavill's cameo is one of many surprises in Deadpool & Wolverine, but not every one came to fruition, as Levy recently told Entertainment Weekly. For example, Percy Jackson and the Olympians star Walker Scobell (who had his breakout role in Levy’s The Adam Project alongside Reynolds) was meant to appear as Kidpool, one of the alternate-universe Deadpools, but he grew up too fast.

Meanwhile, the long-rumored appearance of Reynolds' and Levy's friend Taylor Swift was "never even a conversation," Levy said, adding, "Nothing I said or did was going to make [the Swift cameo rumors] quiet down until this movie came out" — even though EW's Lauren Huff confirmed the news that she was not in the movie weeks before its release.

But when it comes to cameos that did make it into the film, Levy told EW that the film’s post-credits scene — in which Chris Evans, playing Johnny Storm/Human Torch instead of Captain America, unleashes a torrent of colorful swear words — was planned a long time in advance.

"Unlike a lot of movies, we knew what would be our final end-credits button for over a year," Levy told EW. "It was always going to be that, and it was non-negotiable."

Deadpool & Wolverine is in theaters now. 

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