Brentwood Duo are a New Zealand-born acoustic pair, who describe themselves as “Australasia’s only strictly ginger, brother/sister duo.” They perform rather lovely acoustic covers of popular songs and if you like, they can do them at your wedding or function.

Now based in Melbourne, the pair occasionally busy themselves by recording covers for their YouTube channel, like the cover they performed of the ‘Deadpool Rap’ from the wildly popular and uproariously funny Marvel superhero film of the same name.

The pair uploaded their sweetly sung acoustic cover of the rap online and didn’t think much of it afterwards. That is until Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds caught wind of it and shared it on his official Facebook page, adding, “Maximum Ginger. Killing it.”

“We were busking at the time and saw a notification saying ‘Ryan Reynolds shared your video…’ We actually didn’t believe it and thought we were being spammed,” the pair told Newshub, via Stuff.co.nz.

Pretty chuffed with receiving props from Deadpool himself, the duo was even more incredulous when they were contacted by Milan Records, who wanted to know if Brentwood Duo were cool with having their version of the rap included on the Deadpool Reloaded soundtrack album.

“They loved our version and asked if we would be interested in recording it for the re-release of the Deadpool Reloaded soundtrack,” the pair recounted. “Again, we thought we were being spammed, but replied with a ‘HELL YES’, just in case.”

“We just really loved the movie, and wanted to cover a song that got people talking. There has been some talk of a trip to LA to meet the amazing people who made Deadpool possible… It’s just been so surreal.”