DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Dafne Keen Says She's "100%" Ready To Play The MCU's Laura/X-23

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Dafne Keen Says She's "100%" Ready To Play The MCU's Laura/X-23

Logan and Deadpool & Wolverine star Dafne Keen has confirmed she's eager to reprise the role of Laura/X-23 and suggests she's eager to becoming the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Wolverine. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Sep 03, 2024 04:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

In Deadpool & Wolverine, the clawed mutant meets Laura, his "daughter" from Earth-100005. We first encountered the clone as a child in 2017's Logan, with Wolverine making the ultimate sacrifice to give her and the other young mutants a chance to fight for the future. 

While the threequel's Wolverine is a Variant from an unspecified reality, the threequel ends with the hero making a home for himself on Earth-100005 alongside Wade Wilson and Laura (who was saved from The Void by the TVA). 

Empire Magazine recently caught up with Keen and asked whether she wants to continue playing this character in the MCU. 

Her response was brief but made her intentions clear: "I would 100% do this for the rest of my life." Now, it's down to Marvel Studios to make this happen because fans are eager to see more from Laura, especially as we didn't get to see her suit up in Deadpool & Wolverine!

Blade, Elektra, and Gambit all had superhero costumes, but in X-23's case, the teenager was in regular clothes. Based on how Marvel Studios made us wait for Wolverine's mask, there could be a very good reason why she also didn't suit up, especially with Avengers: Secret Wars on the horizon.

Addressing her MCU future last month, Keen said, "I would love to come back. I would pay them to come back. Playing Laura has been the biggest honor of my life. To me, we've only scratched the surface with her since she's such a complex character. She's so cool, just from a fan's standpoint."

In the same interview, the actor confirmed she's Logan's Laura and not just a lookalike Variant. "[Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy] ere like, 'Not a Variant. You went along with the kids for a few years and then you got zapped. You've been in the TVA for a few years now. You lost your accent because you were in America for a while."

"You're a very intelligent kid, you learned English when you were with Logan...to you, you are Logan's Laura so seeing this person again is, 'Whoa, this is my dad who I haven't seen for years.'"

There's been speculation among fans about the possibility of X-23 becoming the MCU's Wolverine in place of a new actor attempting to follow in Hugh Jackman's footsteps as Wolverine. That would be a controversial move but also an undeniably exciting one, especially as it's easy to imagine Keen doing a fantastic job in the role.

Deadpool & Wolverine is now playing in theaters.

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/3/2024, 4:29 AM
get them all back
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/3/2024, 4:34 AM
Oh i know what she can play
Goldboink
Goldboink - 9/3/2024, 9:31 AM
@Malatrova15 -
A flute of some kind?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 4:39 AM
I like it. They can let a few characters from other universes stay in the Sacred Timeline after Secret Wars. They're probably already doing it with the Fantastic Four anyway
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/3/2024, 7:07 AM
@bkmeijer1 - perhaps but I think she’s too tied to Jackman’s version of the character.

MCU Logan should have his own Laura whenever that is.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 7:40 AM
@TheVisionary25 - I don't mind, since we already have seen that on screen, and I doubt they can beat that version the relationship.

Instead I think this a great opportunity to tell new stories with angles previous unexplored in other media.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/3/2024, 7:46 AM
@bkmeijer1 - perhaps , to each their own

I guess you wouldn’t necessarily have to do the introduction again since it would feel like retreading old ground but even then , I feel it would be later then sooner
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 8:07 AM
@TheVisionary25 - true, it isn't one of the things they should take on first. First thing is getting the main team right imo
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/3/2024, 8:35 AM
@bkmeijer1 - oh yeah , definitely
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 9/3/2024, 5:11 AM
One would say she is very KEEN on playing the role.
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 9/3/2024, 5:16 AM
@Urubrodi - even though I chuckled

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TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/3/2024, 8:26 AM
@Urubrodi -

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RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/3/2024, 3:56 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - arrow to the knee?
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/3/2024, 7:42 PM
@RegularPoochie - yep. As in Arnie something from that one thing, I think.
IronSpider101
IronSpider101 - 9/3/2024, 5:17 AM
This was the best tribute this movie made to the legacy of "Logan".

That movie gets all the talk about being the end of his run as the character and whether or not that legacy is tarnished. I think regardless, it's a good story and it's well told. But either way, Logan the character aside, it really did feel like Mangold intended for Laura's character to have a longer run as a character in future X-Men/Fox movies.

It's great to see her back and I hope she continues to play the character. I for one am pleased with the idea that MCU X-Men is the best of the Fox cast but with more comic accurate aesthetics.

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GodHercules20
GodHercules20 - 9/3/2024, 5:47 AM
Nah, scrap FoX-Men and reboot the whole thing. Enough is enough
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 9/3/2024, 6:30 AM
She'll do a wuxia film next. Has to.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/3/2024, 7:06 AM
Idk how I feel about this…

On one hand i like Dafne Keen and her version of Laura but on the other , I would also like a clean slate for the MCU X-Men post-SW (which might be the side I’m leaning on tbh).

I wouldn’t mind if we see her one last time in Secret Wars but after that , the ties need to be cut from the Fox-verse so we can go in anew to the mutant saga.

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comicfan100
comicfan100 - 9/3/2024, 9:36 AM
@TheVisionary25 - I don't know. I think she's new and young enough where she can do this going forward. I'd feel the same way about Anya Taylor Joy returning as Magik. But we need new blood for everyone else, including Wolverine and Blade.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/3/2024, 9:56 AM
@comicfan100 - oh yeah , she’s young enough but idk

I feel like it should be a full clean slate but hey , if they decide to include her then it’s not a big deal
Goldboink
Goldboink - 9/3/2024, 11:45 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Not getting a clean slate or reboot. They have been telegraphing that for years. I don't' think we get the X-Men of our dreams but it will be X-Men of some kind.
Order66
Order66 - 9/3/2024, 8:00 AM
Yes do it.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 9/3/2024, 8:20 AM
Why was Laura in The Void? what trouble could she give the TVA? Is she even the same one from the movie Logan? Because if not why would the TVA allow it. And if she is the same one there would now be 2 of them there. One much younger still stuck in a lab. and the Logan from the movie Logan should still be alive to since that movie took place in 2029. The main story was so stupid and made no sense. How come no one is writing any articles about all the things that don't make sense? I was glad to see Wolverine in full costume but once I lost my erection over that and started using my other brain I realized the main story was phukkin stupid.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 9/3/2024, 8:51 AM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - thank you.
I was asking myself the same damn question.
There's a lot of things in the movie that are pretty weird or don't seem to add up.
I think with the collective circle jerk, people are afraid to be critical.
It's the Marvels in reverse.
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/3/2024, 9:08 AM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - I mean, the movie doesn't just play with timelines it plays with time itself, so that pretty much answers a bunch of your questions. You're thinking too linearly. X-23 could be the one from Logan while also being older because she got pruned in like 2040 or some shit but the void exists outside of time so it's all about whenever they sent her.

The best analogy I can come up with is ENDING OF LOST SPOILER, they didn't all die at the same time, but they all made it to the church to cross over at the same time, because time didn't work the same way in the afterlife.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 9/4/2024, 8:31 AM
@SATW42 - that's what I said. There should be two of them in now. One younger than in the movie Logan and the older one. Don't tell me how time travel works! I know exactly how it works! you think I got a Delorean parked in the driveway for the chicks?
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/4/2024, 8:51 AM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - there should be two of them where? In the void? They didn't prune her multiple times? In HER universe? Well she's been pruned.

In the MCU main timeline? Mutants are just coming into the world. Adamantium doesn't exist in the world yet (well I guess is does on Tiamut, but we haven't even seen it harvested yet. NO adamantium, no Logan, no Logan, no X-23, so they can exist in the MCU timeline because they don't exist yet (and coming incursions, doom and secret wars is gunna reset everything anyway so it won't be a problem in the future)

I think what you might be getting hung up on is 2029 in one universe is 2029 in another universe? Not necessarily. 2029 in the MCU can be happening at the same time as 2024 in another universe. While we've been shown the characters are the same ages throughout universes so far, I don't believe that to be exclusively true. I don't believe there is a Logan in the MCU at the same time as Fox-verse logan, which is how it works.
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/3/2024, 8:20 AM
I couldn’t take her seriously after she put sunglasses on when fighting took her serious away from x-23 away yeah I know it was to show she was from Logan timeline grew up little that was it
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/3/2024, 8:28 AM
She was mildly entertaining in the movie but I think the others outshined her, even Elektra lol. Having said that, she’s X-23. Keep it going. She has tenure
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/3/2024, 9:08 AM
Marvel Studios riding on the back of Fox Studios legacy characters, including Marvel Jesus.

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Jackraow21
Jackraow21 - 9/3/2024, 9:16 AM
Bring Logan out in Doomsday in the brown and tan suit, with the mask... then have Laura walk out right behind him in the yellow and blue one. Boom.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 9/3/2024, 9:28 AM
@Jackraow21 - Yup. Yup yup yup. Yup.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 9/3/2024, 9:28 AM
Get her in a suit.
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 9/3/2024, 9:35 AM
More watered-down spin-off characters
The1st
The1st - 9/3/2024, 11:40 AM
I mean, they can do it if they want to, but do they need to? I mean, she could always be Talon too.
Gabimaru
Gabimaru - 9/3/2024, 11:48 AM
Just give her the classic goth look like in marvel vs capcom 3

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