Speaking to IGN at Comic-Con 2015, British actor Ed Skrein told us a bit more about the new Deadpool movie, his character Ajax, and why Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool is a bit like Muhammad Ali.

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You can watch the full interview with Skrein in the video above.

“ It's a great relationship Ajax and Deadpool have – it's a wonderful dynamic. A lot of the time we talked in terms of the great boxers."

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"The film runs in kind of two halves, like a soccer game," Skrein told us. "The first-half is me attacking; the second-half is more him attacking in some ways. But it's not that simple."It's a great relationship Ajax and Deadpool have – it's a wonderful dynamic. A lot of the time we talked in terms of the great boxers: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman or Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier. Muhammad Ali is dancing around, whispering in his ear, trying to get to him, get under his skin, which is what Wade Wilson (Deadpool) and Ryan do so brilliantly. Ajax is that juggernaut, just like Joe Frazier, just focussed on this job and hunting him down and pounding away, like a bulldozer."When asked about the possibility of Ajax forming a bigger part of Fox's X-Men universe, Skrein said:He was more forthcoming about how playing a superhero and working on a superhero movie was his dream gig. "As soon as I saw it, I was just like 'This is the dream job'. I remember sitting on the set of Game of Thrones on the first day, sitting there with all of the team having lunch. Everyone said, 'What's your dream job?' 'Superheroes. I want to be in a superhero movie.' I was a superhero geek when I was young. I used to go to the comic-book conventions. It's literally the dream job."

Get your first look at Ajax in the video above.

Skrein played the role of Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones in season three, before the role was recast with Michiel Huisman. Skrein clarified that he didn't leave Game of Thrones to work on Deadpool or the new Transporter movie. "I didn't leave for Transporter, no. I took the Transporter on Independently. It's a role that seemed a lot of fun, and I had a lot of fun doing."Deadpool is slated for release in the UK on February 5th, 2016 and a week later in the US on February 12th, 2016.

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