Why Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman hope ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is a ‘fastball of joy’

Happy that Hugh Jackman`s back in the claws and tights for “Deadpool & Wolverine”? You can thank his tango partner, Ryan Reynolds After playing fan-favorite Wolverine for 2 Decades the Australian actor, 55, made peace with 2017’s “Logan” as his superhero swan song. Then Jackman saw his Canadian bud making “Deadpool” movies and witnessed a “whole different playground,” he says in a joint interview. He had said goodbye to Wolverine because “it was almost like being at a nightclub. You go, ‘I don’t think there’s any other songs I can dance to.’”

“Nobody’s going to nightclubs for the songs, Hugh,” Reynolds, 47, deadpans. Jackman laughs and responds, “I was the only one going to dance?”

“Yep, just you,” his co-star counters. This sort of back-and-forth banter – with Reynolds’ zingers and Jackman’s snortles aplenty – carries over to their dynamic duo in “Deadpool & Wolverine” (now in theaters), which marks the Marvel Cinematic Universe debuts for Reynolds’ lovable, motormouthed mercenary and Jackman’s broody, stab-happy X-Man.

It’s a shot of needed adrenaline in the MCU that fans have been waiting for since Disney won the rights to Deadpool and Wolverine, plus the likes of the X-Men and Fantastic Four, with its 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox. (Sony still owns the rights to Spider-Man and his friends but has collaborated with Disney in bringing those characters into the MCU.)