{"id":1987,"date":"2011-02-01T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/01\/hugh-jackman-talks-the-wolverine-and-bulks-up-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:36:27","slug":"hugh-jackman-talks-the-wolverine-and-bulks-up-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman talks &#8216;The Wolverine&#8217; and bulks up&#8230;a lot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2011\/02\/01\/hugh-jackman-to-wolverine-fans-the-planets-are-finally-aligned-to-make-a-great-movie\/\">Hero Complex<\/a> recently had a conversation with THE WOLVERINE star <strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong> about how the stand-alone film will be the best Wolverine tale yet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/hughjackman.jpg?w=150&#038;resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" title=\"hughjackman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1991\" \/>&#8220;I\u2019m really, really pumped about it.&#8221; says Jackman. &#8220;I feel like all the planets are finally aligned to make a great movie. We finally have the character and with this mythology \u2014 ever since [the 2000 Bryan Singer film] \u201cX-Men,\u201d 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, \u201cLauren, I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve seen this Japanese story, and I think it\u2019s so good. It\u2019s just genius, it\u2019s brilliant.\u201d 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 &#8220;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8221;], 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\u2019s not a sequel, it\u2019s a stand-alone, and I think we\u2019re going to make one that people will describe as the best of the bunch.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2011\/02\/01\/hugh-jackman-to-wolverine-fans-the-planets-are-finally-aligned-to-make-a-great-movie\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hero Complex recently had a conversation with THE WOLVERINE star Hugh Jackman about how the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-the-wolverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}