Hugh Jackman has been asked by director Darren Aronofsky to bulk up more then ever for The Wolverine. He wants him to resemble the short stocky comic book version more.
“I don’t know how much I want to give away about it, but Darren said with the last [film], ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.’ He said that Wolverine, in the comics, is powerful, stocky, you know, he’s short and thick. So he said, ‘I want you to go there, get bigger.’ Yeah, he’s thick and it’s chunky and it’s powerful. I always think of Mike Tyson when he first came on the scene. Sometimes, he was a full foot shorter than his opponents and bent over [with this] massive build. There’s real power. [Like a] bulldog, and that’s it exactly. Exactly. That’s what I’m going for, and if I have a massive heart attack first, well, you tell everyone what I was going for.”
So far Hugh is 20 pounds heavier then he was in the last film, thats quite a lot! He’s eating 6’000 calories a day!! I’m guessing wolverine is gunna be pretty intimidating in the new flick, throwing his weight around. I thought he was pretty huge in Origins, so I dread to think what he’ll be like now.
Is there any other superheroes you guys would like to be portrayed more like they are in their comics?
Via Hero Complex
