‘Deadpool and Wolverine’s main villain took inspiration from a popular Quentin Tarantino character

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ is one of the most anticipated films of 2024, and will be released on July 25. The film stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the titular characters, but we now know that they’ll be going up against Cassandra Nova, played by Emma Corrin. The villain is a character of enormous power who aims to be one of the highlights of the entire movie, as an incredibly evil villain for which Corring had some clear inspiration when it came to getting into the role: Hans Landa.

Played by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, Hans Landa is the main villain of ‘Inglourious Basterds’, the film by Quentin Tarantino where a group of soldiers massacres their way through Nazi Germany. The actor did not hesitate to describe the villain from whom they took inspiration for Cassandra Nova (via ComicBookMovie.com): “Because he’s in that uniform, that says everything you need to know. He can sit down at the table and just chat like we’re doing now, be animated, very pleasant. It’s so unnerving because he’s as evil as they get, the worst person on the planet. He is the opposite of a scary villain; he lets his physicality do the talking, and then he flips the other parts on their head.”

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’’'s villain is on another level

Ryan Reynolds did not hesitate to praise Corrin and their role in the film: “It felt like working with a skin-covered Swiss Army knife. Emma brought a Gene Wilder energy to Deadpool & Wolverine. Mischief, danger, unpredictability - from their first scene onward, we understand the villain enough to know why she’s motivated to oppose our heroes And that’s because Emma is so fucking excellent at humanizing even the most chaotic lines. The only thing we love more than hating a villain is loving one. And we love Emma’s Cassandra Nova from the jump.”