Which actor turned down the role of Wolverine and recommended Hugh Jackman?

Nowadays Hugh Jackman has managed to be identified with the Wolverine more popular. Her face and muscles are those that are reflected in most people when the character of Marvel. But everything could have been otherwise if it hadn’t been for an actor friend of his, who not only turned down the role of the aggressive superhero, but also recommended Hugh because I understood that it fit better with the character taken from the cartoons.

Since then, Hugh Jackman has always been grateful. No matter what it cost him in the beginning to be one of the great protagonists of the superhero renaissance because until then he was simply an Australian who had stood out especially on the island making musicals. From those initial criticisms she came out brilliantly to the point of hosting the Oscars before she had passed a decade and become a Hollywood superstar.

The change came from the hand of a compatriot. The actor Russell Crowe received the offer around the year 2000 to be Wolverine in ‘X Men‘. However, the protagonist of ‘gladiator‘ He understood that it was not his place and that he had to give way.

In the ‘Happy, Sad, Confused’ podcast, Russel Crowe has explained with few details what happened when asked if he was offered to be the Canadian superhero with a recovery factor as a superpower. “Yes, (they offered me the role), but I also suggested him (Hugh Jackman). Because look, they showed me all the art team planning and that stuff that doesn’t look like me. However, I told them that the person he looked like was Hugh Jackman,” she revealed.

Of course, 25 years after that ‘X Men’ movie that launched Hugh Jackman’s international career, the Australian has not forgotten his compatriot or lost his relationship. “There are countless ways (in which Russell Crowe) has helped me behind the scenes. He is a good man and a great friend.“He acknowledged in a recent interview that he shared on his social networks.