And he goes, ‘You tripped on the take before.
You fainted on this one.’”
In his inal turn as Xavier, Stewart pushed
himself too. “I was immediately intrigued by this
bleak and ill future for Logan and Xavier, the
idea of this vigorous, intellectual, compassionate
man crumbling,” says Stewart. “Charles is
profoundly disturbed, drugged a lot of the time,
struggling to make sense of what’s around him.
It was very intense, but a marvellous experience.”
Stewart eschewed prosthetics to age himself 20
years or so, but lost 9kg so he would look gaunt,
and wore milky contact lenses to add to the
superannuated effect.
“Really, I hope Patrick gets [Oscar] nominated
for this,” says Jackman. Their irst shared scenehas, he says, more character drama than all their
previous ilms put together. As it inished, Jackman
hugged his co-star from sheer exhilaration.
“My two adult leads, they have huge arcs,” says
Mangold. “They had to be brave enough to ind
a new aspect of the character, to forego vanity.”WITH VANITY AND comfort stripped away, the
results should feel unique. “You have got to
hit it out of the park,” says Jackman. “An
average one is not good enough.” But he and
Mangold promise it’ll still hit the beats fans
want, and with unprecedented fury.
Amping up Wolverine’s crazed combat
style, Logan will be the most violent X-ilm yet.Boyd Holbrook’s
villainous Donald Pierce
(right) comes
augmented
by the metal-
limbed Reavers.Laura and Logan
are cut from the
same cloth.21 secs
Wolverine’s
shortest
appearance, in
Wolverine’s dog-tag number X-Men: First Class45825243
Total box office (worldwide) for the films in
which Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has appearedFIVE
Women wooed by
Wolverine (Jean
Grey, Mystique
as Jean Grey,
Silver Fox,
Mariko and
Gwen)TWO
Number of times Wolverine
has dropped an F-bomb
(the Extended Cut ofThe
Wolverineadds two more)Number of times Wolverine
has been impersonated
by MystiqueThe year Jackman’s
Wolverine first appeared
on the big screenSIX
Number of
flashbacks
to Alkali LakeNumber of cigars smoked by Wolverine
(unless it’s a single, regenerating mutant cigar)#?$!ESSENTIAL WOLVERINE DATA, FROM
HUGH JACKMAN’S APPEARANCES SO FAR105
Number
of people
defeated by
Wolverine
in combat$3.597 BILLION
2000
LOGAN’S RUN