Jets rookie offensive linemen Dakoda Shepley and Darius James took a break from studying their playbooks one night last month to go to a movie theater in Morristown, N.J., near the team’s training center.

They went to see “Deadpool 2.” As the movie played, Shepley pointed to the screen: “There I am,” he told his new teammate.

Before signing with the Jets as an undrafted free agent, Shepley signed another big deal — for a part as a featured extra in the big-budget movie. He plays “Omega Red,” a villain known for his fights with Wolverine.

“It was crazy,” James recalled this week.

Shepley’s journey to the big screen began in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia, where he was an English major and a star lineman. Many movies are filmed in Vancouver because it’s cheaper than filming in some big US cities. Some of Shepley’s teammates told him about signing up to be an extra in films as a way to make some extra money.

The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Shepley signed up online last year to be an extra and was picked in May 2017 for a Netflix movie called, “Game Over, Man!”

“If you fit the description of what they were looking for, they would hire you on the spot — no interview, no audition,” Shepley said.

In “Game Over, Man!” Shepley was a body double for Robert Maillet, a 6-foot-10 former professional wrestler. Maillet’s character is killed when the main characters crash through a window into him, knocking him across the room into computer equipment. Shepley’s part was being the dead body.

“It was pretty funny,” Shepley said. “I got paid like a thousand bucks to lay on my stomach for four days.”

A few weeks later, he was contacted about being in a movie with the code name “Caribbean Blue.” When he went to a costume fitting, he saw the concept art and figured out what the movie actually was.

“I was like, no way, this is ‘Deadpool,’” Shepley said.

A day later, the casting director called him and told him the filmmakers liked his look and wanted him to have a larger role in the film. They flew him to Los Angeles to make a cast of his face in order to produce the prosthetics he would wear in the movie.

It only took 45 minutes. Shepley jokes he sat in LA traffic longer than the meeting. They gave him a contract as a “featured extra,” which means a bigger role and bigger money. They booked him for 21 days of shooting beginning in July, quite a summer job.

The only problem was Shepley’s training camp at British Columbia was scheduled to start in August.

“I told them, ‘I have to play football. I’m not an actor yet,’ ” Shepley said.

With delays in the film schedule, 21 days of filming was condensed to one day. Shepley thinks the role could have been larger if he had been able to film as long as planned. In the end, there is a scene of him without makeup, scenes in the prison sequence and one scene where he is behind Deadpool.

“It was a pretty cool experience,” Shepley said. “My parents thought I’d be the next The Rock, an acting football player.”

Shepley told James, his roommate at rookie minicamp, about the role, but has kept it quiet from his veteran teammates.

“I don’t think he’s told anybody,” James said. “We try to stay low key. We’re rookies. You don’t go boasting about nothing.”

As for football, Shepley faces the uphill battle every undrafted free agent does. The chances of him actually making the Jets’ active roster are slim, but he is hopeful. He is working at right guard, but said he can play all over the line. He is learning the American game after growing up in Windsor, Ontario, and playing his college ball at British Columbia. The biggest difference is defensive linemen line up a yard off the ball in Canada.

“They are basically in your face [in the NFL],” Shepley said. “When people talk about the speed of the American game, that’s what I think of because you have to be like that (he snaps his fingers) off the snap. It’s a learning experience for me. I think I’m grasping it pretty quickly.”

Shepley was drafted fifth overall in the Canadian Football League draft by Saskatchewan, but his dream is to play in the NFL. He signed with the Jets after the draft because he felt this was his best opportunity to make a roster after the Jets did not draft any linemen.

The 23-year-old hopes to have a long career in football. But when it ends, he now has a fallback career in acting.

“It was certainly really cool,” Shepley said. “I can’t imagine being a full-time actor and being a full-time football player. The days I was there, even as an extra, I was there from 7 a.m. to midnight. Where am I going to work out? I’d have no time to train. It’s definitely something I’d like to pursue after football, whenever that may be.”