Oscar night time was actually a giant one for all the 2025 Academy Award winners, in addition to these of us watching and live-blogging about it. The night time was additionally fairly epic for others as effectively, reminiscent of Nick Pauley, whom the remainder of the world would possibly know greatest as Dancing Deadpool. (Or Dancepool, for brevity followers.) He appeared through the musical quantity that concluded Conan O’Brien’s monologue, however the largest second for him might have really come simply earlier than he hit the stage.
Pauley posted a brief clip to Instagram the place he is standing backstage on the 97th annual Oscars simply earlier than rising throughout O’Brien’s musical quantity. He’s clearly somewhat nervous, which isn’t all that stunning, however he shortly will get centered when Robert Downey Jr. walks by and provides him a fist bump. Even by means of the masks, you possibly can inform his thoughts has been utterly blown. Test it out.
Pauley was the identical dancer who carried out the now well-known opening credit sequence of Deadpool & Wolverine so it’s solely becoming that he was introduced again to reprise the position on the Academy Awards, even when it was just for a number of seconds. The entire thing was clearly fairly cool for him, and who wouldn’t be blown away by being in a Marvel costume and getting a fist bump from Robert Downey Jr?
And it was only a stylish transfer from Downey. It’s unclear how a lot the Oscar winner knew about why there was a man dressed as Deadpool backstage. Possibly he thought he was fist-bumping Ryan Reynolds? Both means, he knew the merc with a mouth was about to go on stage and simply wished him luck.
And that wasn’t even all of it. Pauley posted some extra photographs which embody a shot with Downey and Keiran Culkin after he received his Finest Supporting Actor Oscar. Nick Pauley clearly had a tremendous time on the Oscars and the images present it.
However wait, there’s extra. A 3rd Oscar-related publish includes a quick efficiency with Dancepool and Oscar winner Halle Berry. There have been rumors of Storm showing in Deadpool & Wolverine that Berry herself ended up debunking. All I can say is that they made a horrible mistake, as a result of we missed an opportunity to see this…
Nick Pauley might not have been nominated for an award, however I feel it’s protected to say he was the large winner on the Oscars this 12 months. Actually getting solid as Dancepool was, in itself, a very massive deal and an enormous second in his profession, however now that call has led to much more wonderful alternatives.
Whether or not or not that is the final we have seen of Dancepool, it doubtless is not the top for the person behind the masks. If Ryan Reynolds ever wants one other dancing stand-in, he is aware of who to name.