Personally I’m surprised he didn’t rush the stage at the Academy Awards last night and scream-sing “I’M WOLVERIIIINE” like he did in his Oscars opening number in 2009. Still, there’s always next year! And the year after that. And the one after that, too. Basically, every year until Hugh Jackman collapses from exhaustion.
Yep, the now Oscar-winning Iñárritu film about a washed up actor who leaves superhero movies behind for Broadway has inspired the Australian superstar to make a change in his life—specifically, the kind where he isn’t actually going to change anything and will continue to play Wolverine in X-Men flicks for as long as he possibly can.
“I said to my wife, ‘The moral [of Birdman] is that I should never stop playing Wolverine,'” He told Cigar Aficionado in a recent interview, according to E! Online . “‘I’ve got to find a way to keep playing him until I die.'”
“I know that someday they’ll recast the role with another actor,” he added, briefly conceding that he does not share Logan’s regenerative powers or agelessness (for now.) “I’d be happy if the role was eventually recast. It would mean that it had become iconic.”
Until then, he’s going to do all he can to stay fit for the role, which if he keeps going at this rate will probably be the thing that kills him one day. “I always want to be in better shape than I was for the last [X-Men movie]. I don’t believe in stagnation,” he said. “Every time I play Wolverine I want to go further, physically and emotionally.” America thanks you, sir—and so do the future producers of Avengers vs. X-Men, who will have to invent a new kind of film just to keep the collective power of Jackman and Chris Evans’ biceps safely contained.
Of course, Jackman’s such a media darling that if he did give up the claws and abs to be in a Raymond Carver play on Broadway, people would punch each other in the face trying to get tickets and revel in every glorious moment. You know, provided that they turned the Carver play into a musical. With sequins. And tap dancing. And also, let’s leave the abs in, just as a bonus. Yes. I’d watch that, wouldn’t you?
(via Newsarama)
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Published: Feb 23, 2015 01:24 pm