A version of this story first appeared in the March 18 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
Fox’s $600 million box-office juggernaut Deadpool is introducing a new generation to the unlikeliest of heroines: Bea Arthur. The face of the Golden Girls star, who died in 2009 at age 86, appears on a tank top worn by the Marvel antihero, played by Ryan Reynolds.
Fans of the comic are already aware that the vigilante (real name Wade Winston Wilson) harbors a crush on the star, a plot point dreamed up by Deadpool writer-creator Fabian Nicieza.
“When I started writing the monthly Cable & Deadpool series in 2004, it had been the first time I’d written Deadpool in 10 years, so I wanted to recapture his voice immediately, as well as his loneliness,” explains the 54-year-old Nicieza, a longtime Arthur fan who can sing every word of the Maude theme song.
“So the opening of Cable & Deadpool No. 1 is Wade sitting alone in his apartment watching TV for multiple days straight. During one panel, the TV is talking about naming 'The World’s Sexiest Woman’ and he shouts out, 'Bea Arthur!’ It turns out to be Halle Berry and that upset Wade to no end,” Nicieza says.
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