Morena Baccarin is not just your average leading lady. In the film "Deadpool" which stars Ryan Reynolds, she plays Vanessa Carlisle, a prostitute who tries to pick up Wade Wilson but ends up falling in love with him and being his girlfriend.
Baccarin told Collider that her character's involvement in the film is "sprinkled throughout," and her relationship with Wilson is actually a big arc for the anti-hero movie.
"So, there's their meeting point, which is, I guess the backstory on the characters and how they first get together," she shared. "And then you see Wade start to get sick and he gets cancer, and then their relationship becomes all about trying to save him and he, of course, wants to, sort of, send her away so she doesn't experience that with him and then he finds a way to push her away, disappears, and then we cut to eight years later."
Baccarin said that the movie jumps back and forth throughout all of those struggles, and in the end, Wilson struggles to come to terms with his new face and win back Vanessa.
What Baccarin actually loves best about being part of "Deadpool" is that she gets to do a lot of action scenes and not just look pretty for the leading man.
"I do get involved in the action. And it's great. This character's scrappy, she's not worried about her hair and her nails or messing around. She gets down and dirty and she's not a victim, she's not a damsel in distress," she said. "It actually even says that in some of the fighting, she's like 'I can take care of myself and if you think I'm just gonna sit here and scream so you can come and rescue me, you're wrong.'"
Because she is already good friends with Reynolds, Baccarin said that it was very comfortable on the set, even though they were doing pretty uncomfortable intimate scenes. "There was, there's a lot of laughing. And that stuff is always uncomfortable, it's not fun for anybody involved. But, we made the best of it... it's just, you get so used to each other," she said.
The actress has nothing but praises for the creative genius behind the film, and she is so grateful that the role was offered to her.
"It's so rare in a movie like this that the female character is actually really good and not just servicing the story or servicing the hero and she's got her own thing going on and she's really funny and it's a really great part," she gushed. "And, of course Ryan being attached was awesome because I think he's just perfect for this role. He's made to play this guy."
