Vinnie Jones turned down Deadpool 3 over ‘mental toll’ of X-Men Juggernaut suit

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Vinnie Jones has mentioned he turned down the possibility to reprise his X-Men character Juggernaut within the upcoming Deadpool and Wolverine movie partly because of the “mental toll” of sporting the character’s suit.

The former footballer, 59, first performed Juggernaut in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand.

In that movie, he confronted off towards Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, who’s returning for the brand new Deadpool sequel.

Speaking to Yahoo! Movies, Jones mentioned: “Funnily enough I just got asked to do Deadpool, the new one now, and I spoke to the director and I just said it’s such a drama putting that suit on mentally and physically.

“It had its mental toll as well because you’re in it and you can’t do anything all day, you can only drink through a straw. So we couldn’t strike the deal for Deadpool [and Wolverine].”

He added: “But Deadpool’s my favorite movie of all f***ing time more or less. I really wanted to do it, but they didn’t have the budget to put me in the suit.”

Looking again at his expertise on X-Men: The Last Stand, Jones mentioned he was left disillusioned when authentic director Matthew Vaughn was changed by Brett Ratner and Juggernaut’s function was dramatically modified.

“The new director came on and it was not the same role as I had signed on to do,” mentioned Jones.

“They diluted the dialogue… The director brought in so many moving parts and so many other actors that mine got diluted. I lost all interest quite early because I knew they were just taking me along… I was very upset really. It was such a big stage and I became an extra, that’s what happened.”

He added: “I was going in and going, ‘Where is all my dialogue? Where is the storyline?’ For me it was shambles and it was a shame.”

Jones is presently showing within the new Netflix collection The Gentlemen, which reunites him along with his Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch director Guy Ritchie.

For a function in regards to the actor’s journey from tough-tackling soccer arduous man to Hollywood heavy, Lock Stock casting director Celestia Fox informed The Independent: “Guy wrote the script and he said, ‘Obviously the ideal person would be Vinnie Jones.’

“I got hold of him and he came in. He was completely delightful, always. It was very hard to believe that he was that ‘hard man’ at Wimbledon. Of course, now he plays a hard man all the time but he’s the gentlest, sweetest person and completely unlike that.”