Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman Surprise Comic-Con With ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screening

“Deadpool & Wolverine” may have finally released in theaters, but stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman saved their biggest press tour stop for last. The pair rolled into San Diego Comic-Con, alongside co-star Emma Corrin and director Shawn Levy, to present the Hall H audience with a surprise screening of the film on the same day that it hits the big screen around the world.

The special event, dubbed “The Ultimate Deadpool & Wolverine Celebration of Life,” came at the end of a particularly busy day for Reynolds, Jackman and Levy, who jetted to San Diego from Los Angeles following Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige’s Walk of Fame Ceremony earlier in the day.

Reynolds, Jackman, Corrin, Levy and Feige took the stage one-by-one as if it were a normal Comic-Con panel, before calling to a clip of co-star Leslie Uggams saying “cut we skip the bullshit and just show the damn movie!”

“I remember, I was the most nervous human being you would ever see. I was coming here with ‘Deadpool 1.’ I was stepping into a dream come true in a certain sense, but I remember making that movie for you, and I remember how gratifying It was that everyone else liked it too,” Reynolds told the crowd ahead of the surprise screening announcement, recalling his Hall H experience with the “Deadpool” series over the years. “I feel like I was able to connect with you in a way that I’d really kind of been yearning to connect. And we showed the footage and the audience screamed one more time for the footage. And I’ll never forget this moment, because this asshole was backstage,” indicating Jackman.

“I was standing just over there,” Jackman recalled. “I watched the footage and there was this chant that started up: ‘One more time, one more time.’ I ran backstage and I found that the stage manager, and I said, ‘Play the footage again. If you don’t play the fucking footage again, they are going to tear Hall H to the…