Hugh was almost fired from being 'Wolverine'
06 June, 2020
Actor Hugh Jackman might be synonymous with the superhero Wolverine now, but he came very near to being fired from the job following the director was unimpressed along with his performance. Jackman first played 'Wolverine' in 2000's 'X-Men'.
"Five weeks into shooting X-Men, I was on the verge of getting fired..." Jackman said during one of his Hugh Jackman. THE PERSON.The Music.The Show appearances in London.
"The top of the studio pulled me aside at lunch and he explained that these were worried at the studio, that they weren't seeing on camera what they'd observed in the audition."
He continued, "And the next day the director pulled me aside and told me exactly a similar thing...So evidently they'd been talking and I was freaking out. I'm thinking, oh, this is the talk you get before you get fired. Which was the largest break of my career by a mile up up to now."
The actor told Daily Mail that he confided in his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, and she gave him invaluable advice. "I was told that things weren't really working out as they hoped.
I was going to get fired from my first Hollywood movie - the biggest of my career. I was angry, I went home to my wife and I complained. I was whining an Olympic level of whining to my wife, and moaning relating to this person and that person."
He added, "She paid attention to me very patiently for approximately an hour and finally she just said, 'Listen, I think you have just surely got to trust yourself. You are worrying way too much about what the rest is thinking.
Just get back to the character, concentrate on that, trust your instinct... you've got this.' If you ask me that was love. Someone that believes in you when you do not fully believe in yourself."Jackman didn't look back. He played the type in multiple films for near to 2 decades, finally hanging up the claws with Logan.
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