When you’ve been cast to play one of the most famous superheroes in comic book history, a little preproduction research never hurts, but after showing up to the set of the 2000 X-Men, Hugh Jackman soon found out that he’d been modeling his Wolverine performance on the wrong animal entirely.
The Australian star recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the actor reflected on the misunderstanding that occurred from not knowing that his character was named after a real-life mammal:
“Embarrassingly, I didn’t know what a wolverine was. I had never heard of such an animal and I presumed it was a made-up name for the comic book. I’d never read an X-Men comic, I’d never seen one in our zoos. We’ve got a lot of really crazy animals in our zoos in Australia. So I presumed it was a wolf and I did study wolves.
The Australian star recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the actor reflected on the misunderstanding that occurred from not knowing that his character was named after a real-life mammal:
“Embarrassingly, I didn’t know what a wolverine was. I had never heard of such an animal and I presumed it was a made-up name for the comic book. I’d never read an X-Men comic, I’d never seen one in our zoos. We’ve got a lot of really crazy animals in our zoos in Australia. So I presumed it was a wolf and I did study wolves.
- 11/15/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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