I just asked him to not make it — which I knew he wouldn’t, obviously, and the writers, but I just felt it would be more impactful maybe if it was just mentioned, if it wasn’t just like, ‘Negasonic’s gay now, and now that’s what we’re gonna focus on.’
So yeah, I think he and the writers did it beautifully and it definitely worked out the way I had wanted it to.
Ryan [Reynolds] sent me an email about it while they were in the writing process asking if I would mind if they gave Negasonic a girlfriend, and I was like, ‘Mind?