Yahoo Movies Deadpool & Wolverine breaks two unexpected Guinness World Records
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Deadpool & Wolverine star Wesley Snipes has broken two unexpected Guinness World Records.
The actor reprised his role of half-vampire Blade in Marvel's latest blockbuster, nearly 26 years after first playing the character in 1998. This makes him the actor with the longest career as a live-action Marvel character (via Deadline).
Snipes narrowly beat out Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman, who first appeared in X-Men 24 years ago.
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Jackman was expected to take the record from Patrick Stewart, who also made his debut as Charles Xavier in X-Men, before reprising his role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022.
Snipes's cameo also claims the record for the longest gap between character appearances in Marvel films. He last played Blade more than 19 years ago, in 2004 blockbuster Blade: Trinity, which also starred Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King.
The record was previously held by Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and again in Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021.
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The third blockbuster instalment of the Deadpool series sees the two heroes (played by Reynolds and Jackman) team up as they seek to defeat the villainous Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).
Snipes had previously explained that he "did not think it was possible" to reprise his role in the new film until Reynolds contacted him.
"I didn't think we would be able to pull it off," he told Entertainment Weekly at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
"I didn't think that Marvel was into it, Disney was into it – also because they had Mahershala [Ali] cast for the next upcoming version of it."
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Snipes continued: "I thought it didn't make sense to me, but [when] you get a call from Ryan Reynolds out of the blue after 20 years, you go, 'Okay, I got to take this call. Let's see what this is about'.
"He told me the idea... They said 'yes' and 'it's a go'. 'If you're in, we're in'. Here we are."
Deadpool & Wolverine reunited different Marvel stars from before and after the MCU, including Chris Evans in his Johnny Storm AKA Human Torch role.
The film also sees cameo appearances from Dafne Keen as Laura/X-23, Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Channing Tatum as Remy LeBeau/Gambit.
Deadpool & Wolverine is in cinemas now.
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