For this reason, Daniel was overcome with joy after Reynolds decided to ring him up and show him around the Vancouver set of Deadpool 2 via video.
The phone call rapidly metamorphosed into a FaceTime conversation when Daniel, who is from Plympton in Devon, asked if he could show off his Deadpool T-shirt.
“How’s it going, little buddy?” the 40-year-old actor said over the phone as the young boy told him he has been “poorly”.
On 13 July, his mother was told patients with his diagnosis have just nine months to live at most.