Deadpool 2 Domino star Zazie Beetz revealed by Ryan Reynolds in hilarious tweet
DEADPOOL 2 has found its Domino and Ryan Reynolds revealed the news with a typically smart ass message before photoshopping Zazie Beetz's head onto a comic book image.
Ryan Reynolds surprise-releases Deadpool 2 teaser
He just can't help himself.
Deadpool and his even more amusing alter-ego Ryan Reynolds have just revealed the identity of the star playing Domino in the hugely-anticipated sequel. Rather than just simply tell us the name, Reynolds posted a picture of, yup, dominoes, on Instagram.
The equally cryptic caption simply says: "Domino Effect."
If you squint hard enough, though, you can make out the letters on the domino tiles spelling out her name...
Deadpool 2 Domino actress revealed
Deadpool really is a smart ass
Or you could just let us tell you.
After weeks of frenzied speculation and an apparently huge casting call, Domino will officially be played by rising US star Zazie Beetz. Reynolds followed the post with a cheeky one today photoshopping the actress' head onto a Deadpool comic book picure.
The news follows just days after Ryan Reynolds and Stan Lee posted a cheeky trailer for Deadpool 2 before screenings of Logan. The jokey clip teased mentions of Nathan and Hope Summers and hinted that Firefly and Buffy star Nathan Fillion would be Cable.
But who exactly is Domino and where has Zazie Beetz sprung from?
Zazie Beetz will play Domino in the Deadpool sequel
If the name doesn't immediately ring any bells, that's because this will be the lucky lass' first major movie role.
The 25-year-old is best known so far for two TV shows, Atlanta and Easy. Atlanta was created by Donald Glover and focussed on the city's emerging rap scene while Easy was a Netflix show about young folk in Chicago.
Neither made a huge impression on TV audiences and the almost unknown actress must have made a powerful impression of her own on the Deadpool team to land such a covetable role.
Zazie Beetz will star in Deadpool 2
Deadpool 2 is expected to start filming in the next few months and the recent teaser trailer and casting announcements indicate that preproduction is gathering pace.
The Marvel comic book sequel is due out in 2018 with Cable as the main villain.
The R-rated first film was viewed as a huge risk and took Reynolds ten years to bring to the screen. With only a modest $58 million budget but a spectacularly innovative marketing campaign it stormed to box office triumph last year and banked over $780 million worldwide.