{"id":59151,"date":"2022-11-26T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=59151"},"modified":"2022-11-26T23:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T07:50:25","slug":"hugh-jackman-didnt-want-to-be-typecast-as-an-action-hero-star-after-playing-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=59151","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman didn&#8217;t want to be typecast as an action hero after playing Wolverine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attachment-id=\"59158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=59158\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"the-wolverine\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;20th Century Studios&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=670%2C447&amp;ssl=1 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?resize=320%2C213&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy of 20th Century Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2022\/11\/hugh-jackman-interview-wolverine-the-son-1234785135\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IndieWire<\/strong><\/a>, legendary <strong>Wolverine<\/strong> actor <strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong> spoke about how he compares to the characters he portrays, saying \u201cSpend five minutes with me and you\u2019ll know that couldn\u2019t be further from who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">After gaining worldwide recognition as the popular X-Man, Jackman decided early in his rising career to avoid becoming typecast as an action movie star. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to do the same things,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, the role of the hero action star. I mean, it was the meat-and-potatoes of a lot of American film, that archetype. It was all various forms of heroic guys in tough situations. I was like, \u2018Uh, no. This is a problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">When inquiries came for the role of <strong>James Bond<\/strong>, he said \u201cI had a look at it; I was like, \u2018If I\u2019m doing that and Wolverine, I\u2019ll have no time to do anything else.\u2019 I clearly find it more interesting to play people who color outside the lines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Jackman will return as Wolverine alongside <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong> in Marvel Studios&#8217; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?page_id=57464\">DEADPOOL 3<\/a><\/strong>. Coming to cinemas November 8, 2024, the film has <strong>Shawn Levy<\/strong> (Free Guy) on board as director, with OG writers <strong>Rhett Reese<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Wernick<\/strong> returning as scribes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with IndieWire, legendary Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman spoke about how he compares to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[15,35,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-the-wolverine-2","category-wolverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/the-wolverine.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59151","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=59151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}