Hugh Jackman a recently that it felt “awesome” to see X-Men fans embrace his adaptation of Wolverine when he made his presentation as the fan-most loved freak in 2000’s X-Men.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you one of the moments I’d like to relive around Logan,” Jackman told Den of Geek. “It was the first time I saw X-Men in a cinema with audiences. And I did it because Tom Rothman, who was one of the execs at the time at Fox, said if you want to understand this movie, you have to go and see it with an audience in Times Square at 10 p.m. on a Friday night. And I was like, ‘Alright.'”
The actor added that, in light of the fact that nobody knew who he was at that point, he had the option to slip into the film undetected. “So I just walked in, sat up in the back, I watched the movie, and [it was like] woah,” Jackman said. “We don’t watch movies like that in Australia. There’s no yelling and screaming and cheering, no ‘Yo Wolverine!’ and booing [the villains].”
“That was awesome,” he said. “I would love to go and relive that moment because I was super nervous, it was my first movie and I didn’t know what to expect. I’d love to go back and just really enjoy that.”
As well as showing up as Wolverine in X-Men, Jackman repeated the job in X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), The Wolverine (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and Logan (2017). Jackman-as-Wolverine likewise showed up in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).
While bits of hearsay have coursed that Jackman would return as Wolverine since Marvel has gained the rights to the X-Men characters, Jackman as of late destroyed any expectations of that working out. In particular, the entertainer said, “That fact that I’m hearing about this from you, and there’s nothing in my inbox from [Marvel President] Kevin Feige means it’s probably, no matter what idea I came up with, not on the table.”
Jackman added that he knew his run as Wolverine was over when he perused the content for Logan, taking note of, “We knew what it would have been ish, correct? Also, I thought this is it. What’s more, that truly helped me, it truly helped realizing I was going into my last season, that it was my last season that I capitalized on it. It’s as yet a person I hold near my heart. However, I realize it’s finished.”
Jackman at present stars in Reminiscence, which is currently in theaters and on HBO Max.
