It’s the Juggernaut, bitch.
For a very short amount of time, anyway. Actor Vinnie Jones played the well-known mutant in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. According to Jones, he was severely disappointed with the limited screen time he was given. He goes on to say that he was “let down” by director Brett Ratner. Who, apparently made a lot of promises. At the end of the day, Jones didn’t get what he was promised:
Did Jones Enjoy Playing the Juggernaut?
“No. (He was replying to a question that asked if he liked his time filming the X-Men film). I loved the role, but hopefully you can put it f***ing right here, mate. I basically got mugged off. Matthew Vaughn signed me up, and it was a great role and a great script, and Juggernaut was a great character. I signed up for three of them, and that will show you how serious I was about it. Brett Ratner basically dissolved the character. I was in my f***ing trailer half the time. It’s one of the most disappointing jobs I’ve been on as far as, you know, ‘What am I doing here?'”
He continued:
“It wasn’t the same Juggernaut as I signed on for. They took his storyline away, they’d taken his character away, his dialogue. I had two big meetings with Brett about it, and he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s coming. They’re writing stuff for you as we speak’ and it never f***ing happened,” Jones continued. “Disappointment wise, that was probably one of the biggest. What’s upsetting is some of the fans blame me! It was f***ing nothing to do with me! That role, I didn’t sign up for. The Juggernaut you saw was not the Juggernaut I signed on for with Matthew Vaughn, I’ll tell you that now. It upset me.”
“I know what it means to the fans, and I felt like I was a bit of a scapegoat as no one ever told my side of it. Nobody ever stood up and said, ‘Hold on a minute, we completely whitewashed Vinnie’s character. Basically, I was an extra, mate. That’s how I felt. I was gutted, to be honest.”
Different Directors
Jones also commented on the difference between working with Matthew Vaughn and Brett Ratner:
“It was a different script, and then Brett, for some reason, brought all these other characters on board that had one line each in the f***ing movie and it was a joke, really. It was so disappointing, you know?”
Would He Come Back?
While Juggernaut was used in Deadpool 2, the character was created with VFX and voiced by Ryan Reynolds. Jones says, though; he’d still like to play the villain:
“Yeah, I’d love a chance at putting it right. I really would. That is a stone that I need to turn over if I ever got that chance.”
Would you like to see Jones play Juggernaut again?
Source: Comicbook Movie
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