Thanks to their simulated sexcapades, Reynolds and Baccarin had to get comfortable filming with one another on the first “Deadpool,” and fast. Luckily, the pair was already acquainted in real-life, which made things easier. “We were very lucky from the get-go,” Reynolds told Desde Hollywood near the time of the film’s release. “We knew each other before, it takes a very unique person like Morena to play this role. You have to be able to go toe to toe with a guy who is a mentally unhinged mercenary. She does it so beautifully and we knew the first time she did that scene with me in the bar we were so right.”

Being a kindred spirit with Wade, Vanessa reacts to seeing his new face for the first time with a mixture of vulgarity and genuine affection, telling him, “After a brief adjustment period and a bunch of drinks, it’s a face … I’d be happy to sit on.” That she needs a moment to adjust to their new reality is both understandable and something that Baccarin herself required. “I’m not going to lie to you: looking at that thing was crazy, and the first time I saw it I said, ‘I got to kiss that?’” she joked to Desde Hollywood. “There was red stuff coming out but it was all very alive, it was oozing. But that’s what was beautiful about them, that they’re going to make it.”

Not that this made actually kissing Reynolds with his prosthetics on any easier. “I keep saying that kissing him in that mask is like kissing a giant latex condom,” Baccarin told People ahead of “Deadpool 2” reaching theaters in 2018. “It basically just smells like rubber the entire time.”