'Deadpool & Wolverine' cameo with Tom Holland connection leaves even Ryan Reynolds pleasantly surprised

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The action-comedy film 'Deadpool & Wolverine' premiered on July 26, featuring a multitude of cameos, including one by Harry Holland, Tom Holland’s brother. Notably, even lead actor Ryan Reynolds seems to have trouble keeping track of them all.

Harry Holland appears briefly in the superhero sequel as one of the many variants in the film’s Deadpool Corps.

Based on Marvel Comics and featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine, 'Deadpool & Wolverine' is produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

George Cottle reveals Tom Holland’s brother Harry’s role in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

On Monday, July 29, stunt coordinator and assistant director George Cottle took to Instagram Stories to reveal that Harry Holland, the younger brother of Marvel star Tom Holland, had a role in 'Deadpool & Wolverine'.

Cottle posted a photo of Harry in costume and wrote, “When [director Shawn Levy] and [Reynolds] set the bar so f'ing high, even the stunt team needed a special guest star!! It may not be the Holland the world wanted, but it was the Holland we all needed!! [Harry] you smashed it my friend!”

Ryan Reynolds soon discovered the story and reacted on Instagram, saying, “This is how I find out?!? You tell me?”

Tom Holland, Harry’s brother, also reposted Cottle’s story on his Instagram page with the comment, “Lots of cameos in Deadpool.”

Cottle then responded to Reynolds saying, "All good things come to those who wait Sir." He also replied to Harry's post commenting, "Haroldpool for the win!!"

This isn’t the first time Harry Holland has appeared in a Marvel film: he played a bicycle thief in 2021’s 'Spider-Man: No Way Home', starring his brother Tom Holland. Although his cameo was cut from the final film, it was included in the 'Spider-Man: No Way Home – The More Fun Stuff Version'.

'Deadpool & Wolverine' is packed with dozens of cameos and Easter eggs in its 127-minute runtime, featuring X-Men characters like Sabretooth (Tyler Mane) and Pyro (Aaron Stanford) from the 20th Century Fox film series.

The film, starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, earned $211 million in its domestic box office debut, marking it as the sixth-biggest opening of all time.

'Deadpool & Wolverine's fans find it 'funny' that Ryan Reynolds was not aware of Harry Holland's cameo

George Cottle's revelation sent the internet into a frenzy, with many Twitter users sharing Harry Holland’s picture in his role across various social media platforms.

One user tweeted, "They should have told Ryan and Hugh. But it is funnier this way. 😀".

Another user added, "It seems every deadpool was someone famous". The third added, "That'll be funny if harry was the deadpool of mcu and interacted with spiderman".

One netizen questioned, "He didn’t know? 😂😂😂😂 Are you crazy?!?! How could you not know?! The brother of a huge Marvel character and how would you not know?! This is just to drive traffic to the movie plain and simple.."

One person wrote, "Ryan didn't know is the funniest part of this". The last added, "Wait that's actually hilarious".

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