Hugh Jackman talks ‘The Wolverine’ and bulks up…a lot!

Hero Complex recently had a conversation with THE WOLVERINE star Hugh Jackman about how the stand-alone film will be the best Wolverine tale yet.

“I’m really, really pumped about it.” says Jackman. “I feel like all the planets are finally aligned to make a great movie. We finally have the character and with this mythology — ever since [the 2000 Bryan Singer film] “X-Men,” when I was kind of hanging around and reading all these comics, because I was cast before I ever read any X-Men comics, so I was trying to get my hands on everything. I remember saying to [producer] Lauren Shuler Donner, “Lauren, I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen this Japanese story, and I think it’s so good. It’s just genius, it’s brilliant.” And we kind of always talked about it from there on. I sort of even wanted to do that in the third X-Men movie at first, but we thought, no, we really need to establish who he is at first, and we did that [with “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”], and now this is sort of the cherry on top, to finally do it and have Darren Aronofsky direct it. I love his gung-ho attitude toward it and great vision. Straight off, it’s not a sequel, it’s a stand-alone, and I think we’re going to make one that people will describe as the best of the bunch.”

Jackman also talked about his diet for the film which consists of him consuming more than 6,000 calories a day (yikes!) to gain plenty of muscle. You can read more about that here.