Hugh Jackman on his humorous First Class cameo.

X-MEN star Hugh Jackman recently spoke with MovieFone about his memorable cameo in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. The actor talks about filming his scene, and how he initially wasn’t sure if his scene would make it into the film.

“Basically I was asked a long time ago if I would do a cameo. Way before shooting happened,” Jackman told Moviefone. “And I said, ‘Well, pitch me the idea.’ They pitched me the idea and I remember saying, ‘Does anyone else swear in the movie?’ They said, ‘no,’ and I said, ‘I’m in.’ [laughs] It sounded perfect to me. The actual line they used in the end, ‘go f-ck yourself,’ was a bit of an ad-lib. The line was originally ‘f-ck off.’ We did about eight takes and I said, ‘Mathew, let me do just one more.'”

“Really, what happened was I did not know it was going to happen myself. I was getting asked all of the time if I’m in the movie. Like, I think they thought Wolverine was going to be a big character in it and I just kept basically lying. Well, no, I would say ‘no’ to that because no one really suspected a cameo. And I, actually, for a while there, thought it wasn’t going to happen.”

“Then all of a sudden they’re doing reshoots and they were like, ‘We honestly don’t know if it’s going to fit in the film. We don’t know if we’re going to use it in the film or not, but we love the idea, so can we just do it?’ So I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ So I was brought in.”