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ou may know him as the guy who straps on the claws for his role as Wolverine in the wildly popular X-Men movies. Now, Hugh Jackman tells FHM what it's really like to be one of the most popular super heroes ever!
By Lee Coan
Who’s the craziest Wolverine fan you’ve ever encountered?
The most intense guy was a man named Vinnie. He works in a restaurant owned by Robert De Niro called Bubby’s in Tribeca, New York. It’s a pretty well known hideout for people in the movies, so you don’t expect much attention when you go there. But when I went, I saw this weird thing in the corner of my eye. This guy kept bobbing up, and then every time I turned around he’d duck underneath a table. I started getting nervy about it so I asked the waiter what was going on…

A fruitcake with a gun was about to kill you?
Not quite. He said, “Oh that’s our manager Vinnie, he’s a bit obsessed with Wolverine, so he’s a little nervous about you dining here.” I told him to send this “Vinnie” over. So, Vinnie comes to our table and the poor guy is sweating and shaking like you wouldn’t believe. I try and calm him down, and say, “Soooo, you like Wolverine, hey?…” He looks at me, doesn’t say a word, takes his shirt off in the middle of his restaurant and turns around…

Then he pulls out the gun?
No! No guns! He turns around and has this full-color tattoo of Wolverine covering his entire back. I just thought it was unbelievable, which was a mistake. My enthusiasm made him go hyper. For about 12 minutes I had to pretend to be Wolverine for him, as he ran around the restaurant, climbing on tables, doing his best Wolverine impression with his shirt off. It was a pretty intense meal.

Has that been your strangest Hollywood moment?
Well, no… I did do a film called The Fountain where I had to make out with Rachel Weisz. That wouldn’t normally be that weird, but the film was being directed by her fiancé so it was just all a bit wrong, you know…

What happened?
Oh God. Well, in the script it said we just make out for a bit, and then leave it at that because her character was supposed to be sick. So Rachel Weisz is in the bath utterly naked, and she pulls me in fully clothed to get it on. So she was naked, I was wet, and we start really going for it for the cameras. It’s getting passionate, we’d gone as far as the script had told us to, but nobody’s calling, “Cut!” Her fiancé is holding a camera five feet away from me egging me on to go further with his naked girlfriend…

Rachel Weisz!
Exactly. So she starts pulling off my top and starts grabbing towards, you know… there. Then I hear this voice go, “Rip off his pants!” At this point I get a bit freaked out, her director/fiancé calls cut and shouts at Rachel, “Why didn’t you take his pants off?” She goes, “I don’t know… I felt a bit shy.” I was like, “You’re kind of kinky, aren’t you mate?” He didn’t laugh too much at that, so I figured it best not to say anything else. At any moment, I was thinking he’s either going to hit me or go, “Keep doing it to her, man.”

And weren’t you also involved in Halle Berry’s infamous topless scene in Swordfish…
Yes, yes, I was. Actually, there’s a good story about that day. My wife had flown back from Australia and we were meant to have finished all the nude scenes. I thought we were done—and she was coming to the set. Then the director comes up to me and says we’ve got to re-do it all because there was “a negative” problem. So the point when I had to get my blowjob under the table is the point my wife walks onto the set!

Did she flip out?
Well no, she’s done 25 movies, so she knows the nature of the beast. And you know, I’ve still been naked in showers with more guys than beautiful women. She just bowled straight up to the actress under my table and said, “I believe you just gave my husband a blowjob!” The poor girl went to pieces, so she told her, “Oh relax, you’re getting paid to give him head… enjoy it.”

How nice. Back to X-Men for a minute. Have you ever forgotten that you’re made up as Wolverine and scared yourself in a mirror? Absolutely, and it scares you every time. Sometimes you’ll start shooting at eight in the morning and finish at nine the following morning, so you just kind of forget that you’re all dolled up and just do regular things dressed as Wolverine while you wait for your scene.

Have you ever gone out in your Wolverine costume?
The funniest time I went out on the street as Wolverine was on Halloween. I went trick-or-treating in the full outfit. My little kid was dressed as Wolverine, too, and only one person noticed us. Nobody gave a shit—they were like, “Oh, we’ve seen 18 Wolverines already tonight. Make a bit more effort with the outfit, loser.”

We hear after X-Men: The Last Stand you’re going solo to do a film just about Wolverine…
Well, I just love the character and I thought there was enough there to warrant a film on its own. I think he’s a hugely popular, bread and butter Hollywood character. I kind of see him as a Dirty Harry or a Mad Max—that kind of thing. Source: http://www.fhmus.com

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