Inching towards the envied billion-dollar box office score, Deadpool & Wolverine continues to titillate fans. This week, Blake Lively, woven into the narrative by becoming the real-life inspiration for Ladypool, has been disseminating some notable breadcrumb trails in recent interviews.

Blake Lively’s amalgamation into Ladypool’s character

During a chat on Live with Kelly and Mark, the leading lady of the newly released It Ends with Us, graciously unpeeled the onion to reveal how she was woven into Ladypool’s narrative. The origin of her cameo traces back to a fateful coincidence when Rob Liefeld, the architect behind Deadpool’s popular persona, chanced upon her screen work, specifically Gossip Girl.

Lively effortlessly narrated, "Rob Liefeld, who drew LadyPool…I had no idea but in 2010, he drew Lady Deadpool. And at the same time, I was cast in the Green Lantern with my now husband, who was not my husband then."

No association with Ryan, but a cameo one could not resist

Playing Lady Deadpool might sound like a well-calculated move conspired by a celebrity couple, but Lively assured a lack of association with her comic-adoring husband Ryan Reynolds when she bagged the role. The events, as she recalled, read more like a comic-book version of ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’: Ryan was to play Deadpool, Lively was cast in Green Lantern, Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld and his wife were watching Gossip Girl, and voila—Lively becomes the face of Lady Deadpool.

Sharing the Deadpool story, one Instagram post at a time

If you fancy more of Lively’s time-bound sequence of events, head over to her Instagram where she delineated a similar chronicle after Deadpool & Wolverine’s premiere. Interestingly, Reynolds queued her and their Green Lantern co-star Taika Waititi into Deadpool’s world for the first time back in 2010.

Lively narrated, “Just before all this in 2010, [Liefeld] drew an unmasked Lady Deadpool for the first time…[Deadpool movie] wasn’t real. And Rob had no idea I was working with [Reynolds].”

Rob Liefeld affirmed the Ladypool theory through his post shared on Instagram in March 2022 where he declared Lady Deadpool was “based entirely on [Blake] Lively.” Astonishingly, within a year from the post, magic happened. Deadpool’s filming commenced and Lively emerged under the spotlight as Ladypool.

Quite the comicbook ‘Whodunit’, isn’t it? But that’s the Deadpool franchise for you—constantly blurring lines between fiction and reality, proving once again, truth can be stranger than fiction…well, comic book fiction in this case.