Logan: Hugh Jackman Was Initially Skeptical Of Including X-24

Logan was a huge hit when it came out earlier this year, and fans thought it gave Hugh Jackman a proper send-off as Wolverine. The movie included another Wolverine clone in the form of X-24, and was played by Jackman himself, and as it turns out, Jackman was initially skeptical of having the character included in the story.

In an interview with Collider, Jackman revealed:

"I was very skeptical of having X-24 being played by me. I understood what it represented and thematically the idea of battling himself, which of course is right at the core of this character that we never fully got to, so I kind of loved the externalization of that. But I also know that myself as an actor and fans of Wolverine come up to me in the street every day and go, ‘We wanna see that full berserker animalistic crazy off-the-wall Wolverine,' right? That we don't feel we've fully seen it, so I was like, ‘Jim if we introduced halfway or near the end of the movie that full berserker animalistic crazy Wolverine and he's somehow fighting our hero, audiences won't know what to feel.' And I remember him saying, ‘Trust me, trust me, trust me.' And I was a bit of a pain in the ass on that one, I was like, ‘I'm just not sure. Let's keep exploring it and exploring it.' When I saw the movie it's just clear, for some reason I think because he skewers Patrick Stewart in that moment the audience just sort of hates him. We did some subtle things, I changed the bridge of my nose, I wore contacts—I just wanted him to look a little different from myself. And I think by that point we'd created already the Wolverine that people wanted to see. So anyway, that was one of my examples of being wrong (laughs)."

If I'm going to be honest, I could say that the inclusion of X-24 wasn't really one of my favorite choices. I understand that it serves as a metaphor for Logan fighting himself, but I would have rather seen Wolverine's half-Japanese son Daken fighting Old Man Logan or a brainwashed Sabertooth played by Live Schreiber. The whole movie was going pretty great for me until it entered the third act — but hey, that's just my opinion.

The Blu-Ray and DVD release of Logan is on May 23.

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