When Hugh Jackman agreed to play the mutant superhero Wolverine in the X-Men franchise, he didn’t know that Wolverines were real. He thought he was playing a wolf. At a loss for how to mimic a wild canine, he watched a documentary on wolves to better understand how they moved and acted, arriving on set with a “funny” gait. He recalled the ridicule of his director Bryan Singer in an interview with Page Six in 2017: “He said, ‘You know you’re not a wolf, right? … Go to the zoo, dude.’ I literally didn’t know [wolverines] existed.”
