Author: Patrick Ryan / Source: USA TODAY
Zazie Beetz of ‘Deadpool 2’ explains how nobody can pronounce her name. Robert Deutsch, USAToday
NEW YORK — After Deadpool 2, more people will know the name Zazie Beetz. But first, they’ll want to learn how to say it.
“Zay-zee is pretty offensive to me,” jokes Beetz, whose name is pronounced Zah-see. “I just get nicknames very quickly: Za, Zaza, Z, Zoboomafoo.
It runs the gamut.”In Deadpool 2 (in theaters Friday), the actress plays the sardonic Domino, an always-lucky hired gun who’s recruited by Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) for his X-Force team to save a flame-throwing teen mutant (Julian Dennison) from breaking bad.
Looking unflappably cool as Domino dodges whizzing bullets and snaps the limbs of her adversaries, Beetz is the movie’s “captivating standout,” says USA TODAY movie critic Brian Truitt, while others on Twitter have called for the character to get her own spinoff film. (To which co-writer Paul Wernick responds, “I don’t see why not.”)
Beetz, 26, broke out in 2016 on FX’s Emmy-winning show Atlanta as Van, a young mother and on-and-off girlfriend of cash-strapped rap manager Earn (Donald Glover). With a short résumé of mostly dramatic roles in low-budget projects until now, “I never really pictured (a superhero movie) would be my trajectory,” she says. “I was nervous, because you sign onto a franchise and you’re contracted with them to continue on with the story, and you don’t really know what you’re signing up for.
But I liked the idea of introducing the live-action version of a character,” particularly one as strong and no-nonsense as Domino, who’s depicted as having chalk-white skin and straight, chopped hair in comic books.Reynolds…
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