First Look At Josh Brolin As Cable In ‘Deadpool 2’ Revealed
He’s no Keira Knightley, butJosh Brolindoes look plenty proud as Cable in the upcomingDeadpool 2.
Ryan Reynolds,Deadpoolmarketing machine extraordinaire, posted two first looks at a heavily scarred and cybernetically enhanced Josh Brolin as Cable on his Twitter. And true to form, he threw in a “premium Cable” joke too.
Just like Reynolds' previous posts ofZazie Beetzas Domino last week, theDeadpoolactor dropped a whopping two photos of Brolin’s Cable: one close-up of Brolin holding a finger up to his mouth and shushing the audience as his cyborg eye glows yellow, the second a full body shot where we can see Cable’s machine arm and machine gun, as well as a beat up teddy bear he carries on his person.
We all have that one, grumpy, heavily armed Uncle from the future.#PremiumCABLE#JoshBrolinpic.twitter.com/JV3yBIIPQH
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds)June 19, 2025
DeadPool 2: Your premium#Cableprovider.#DeadPool2pic.twitter.com/LboS0iVDqZ
“We all have that one, grumpy, heavily armed Uncle from the future,” Reynolds wrote in the caption for the close-up shot.
Brolin has been beefing up for the role of Cable in 2018’sDeadpool 2, the sequel to 2016’s surprise hitDeadpool, which starred Reynolds as Wade Wilson, a foul-mouthed, self-aware superhero. In the closing credits ofDeadpool,Wade promised that Deadpool’s infamous buddy Cable would appear in the sequel and be played by Keira Knightley, in a riff off on the after-credits bumper inFerris Bueller’s Day Off.Knightley was busy I guess, and Brolin got cast in the part instead. Since then, he has expressed excitement for the role, posting several pictures ofhimself working out for the part— and promoting active wear. Hey, he canmultitask!
In the comics, Cable is a fellow mercenary descended from Scott Summers and a Jean Grey clone, but his backstory may change for the film. Brolin’sCable is a time traveling soldierdescribed as being “in many ways the opposite of Deadpool.” In other words, he could be the stoic foil Reynolds' wisecracking superhero demands.
Cable is an adversary-turned-buddy to Deadpool, first crossing paths with the Merc with a Mouth when Deadpool was tasked with assassinating him. Cable and Deadpool were soon paired together in an extremely popular comic book series and eventually became members of the X-Force, a strike team of mutants with a harsher edge than the regular X-Men.
Reynolds has promised thatDeadpool 2will lay the groundwork for anX-Forcemovie, and with essential members like Cable and Domino already a part of theDeadpoolsequel, it seems like we’re not long for it.
