One of the ingredients that makes the Deadpool franchise a success with audiences is its ability to use meta vulgar, enjoyable and offbeat language. Despite the acquisition of Fox by Disney studios, and the concern of spectators regarding the “rules of propriety” that the latter would impose, the result is very irreverent… And the dubious lines follow one another, even the forbidden ones!
This recurring joke in the film was condemned by Disney
Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy, respectively lead actor and director of Deadpool & Wolverine, were determined to do as they pleased when the film was conceived. Cameos galore, dubious humor, unbridled insults, situations as incredible as they are bloody, everything seems permitted to this duo of terrible children! No “taboo” of society is left aside, from scatophilia to drug use, and in particularly cocaine…The latter was not, however, in the good books of Marvel Studios: Kevin Feige expressly asked Shawn Levy not to use this psychotropic drug on screen. The “No Cocaine” rule mentioned in Deadpool & Wolverine was therefore very real, as the director revealed to Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused format!
“Cocaine is the one thing Feige said was off limits,” says Deadpool… #CinemaCon2024 pic.twitter.com/Cb84BaEqj5
April 11, 2024
Initially, Kevin [Feige] said to us, “Look, we want a movie that's all about Deadpool. The only thing is, maybe we won't do all the drug use, all the cocaine use.”… And we said, “Yes sir, yes, roger“… And we went home, and literally wrote the joke.
And that's how Wade Wilson references Marvel Studios' ban on talking about cocaine by talking about it, synonymously, for several minutes! But without showing it on screen, thus only partially circumventing Kevin Feige's ban…
In the end, only one joke from Deadpool & Wolverine was so hardcore that it was censored!