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Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Emily St. Martin

Hugh Jackman is becoming Wolverine again. More than 8,000 calories a day should help

Hugh Jackman is bulking up to become Wolverine again.

The Golden Globe-winning actor shared a photo of a "day in the life" of becoming one of Marvel's favorite X-Men. He has been gradually adding calories to his diet as he prepares to reprise the role he played over the course of nine films since 2000.

After wrapping "Logan" in 2017, the actor appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" and indulged in pasta and wine fed to him by the host and chef Mario Batali. After 17 years of enduring the extreme on-again, off-again training required to play Wolverine, including brutal workouts, dieting and steamed chicken breasts that kept Jackman in superhero shape, "Logan" was supposed to be his final turn as Wolverine.

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