Hugh Jackman Shocked Ryan Reynolds on Deadpool and Wolverine Set: ‘It’s Crazy’ | Exclusive

Ryan Reynolds has his right hand cupped around Hugh Jackman ear, whispering to him like a pair of intriguing schoolboys between interviews on Deadpool and Wolverine press tour.

It takes a moment for the duo to realize 9honey Celebrity entered the room, then they all have bright white smiles and warm handshakes.

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South Korea’s bustling capital, Seoul, awaits just outside the walls of this hotel meeting room, but Reynolds and Jackman’s minds are 5,000 miles away in Australia.

“If we ever do one of these movies again – if we’re ever lucky – we’ll have to shoot in Australia. Straight to Sydney,” Reynolds told 9honey Celebrity.

“Deadpool in Australia, It looks pretty good actually.”

Jackman, who initially seemed enthusiastic about the idea, interjects: “Wait, I just got taken off the title.”

He’s well-liked in his home country, but it’s been years since the 55-year-old last filmed a project in Australia. Reynolds wants to change that.

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“Australia is something very special to me. He doesn’t really care about it,” he jokes.

“But filming there would be fantastic,” he jokes, before acknowledging that Jackman is in fact “a first-class Australian”.

Australian fans would be delighted to see Jackman back on home soil for another game. dead Pool film, but all of this remains hypothetical at this stage.

This one has to start with a bang first, and that’s exactly what Jackman and Reynolds came to Seoul to do.

Deadpool and Wolverine is the crossover movie Marvel fans have been waiting years for, and it marks the first outing for both heroes as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

There’s a lot at stake around this movie, not just for the movie studios, but for Reynolds and Jackman personally.

The crossover has been a long time coming for Reynolds, who spent years trying to get the first one dead Pool film made, not to mention two sequels.

Meanwhile, this film is Jackman’s 10th appearance as Wolverine, a character he has played for over 24 years now.

He will finally be able to reclaim his Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel character,” which was snatched from him in 2022 by Patrick Stewart, who spent 21 years as Professor Charles Xavier.

Jackman first appeared on screen as Wolverine in X-Men in 2000, when he became one of the first stars to seriously bulk up for a comic book role.

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Today, actors who play superheroes are expected to undergo dramatic transformations, largely because of Jackman’s standard persona of two decades ago. Now 55, he tells 9honey Celebrity that he’s starting to regret it.

“I’m really mad at myself now,” Jackman says with a laugh.

It’s one thing to achieve “superhero” shape at 32; it’s another at 55, a fact Jackman is well aware of after filming. Deadpool and Wolverinethe star admitting that “it was harder” this time around.

“You know what, I really enjoyed it. Maybe it was just my ego,” he says of his latest transformation.

He underwent constant workouts, ate 6,000 calories in six meals a day and did hundreds of push-ups between takes during filming, according to Deadpool and Wolverine co-star Rob Delaney.

Some would call Jackman’s dedication admirable; Reynolds calls it “crazy.”

“It was crazy… just the commitment and dedication,” he said, “and the humiliation of being in a gym with him.”

Reynolds was in the audience when Jackman returned to Broadway in a revival of The man of music in 2022 and said the man he saw on stage and the man who showed up to film Deadpool and Wolverine it couldn’t have been more different.

“To go from this guy who had the body of the Peanuts mascot, or Tommy Tune… to this larger-than-life superhero, it was crazy,” Reynolds says.

“It was one of the craziest transformations I’ve ever seen.”

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All those muscles aren’t just for show, either; Jackman performed most of his own stunts for the film, drawing on his dance training for some of the more complex choreography.

“There are sequences in this movie where there’s not a single frame of a stuntman. (Jackman) does all the choreography, all the shots, all the falls, all the jumps,” Reynolds says.

“He didn’t hire a stunt double for me,” Jackman retorts with another laugh, “I wanted one but he said no!”

Reynolds is convinced his co-star made a deal with the devil to be able to do all this at 55.

“We moved his trailer and there’s a fucking pentagram on the floor,” he jokes. “I was like, ‘Yeah! I knew it!’”

Despite being eight years Jackman’s junior, Reynolds had to refrain from the more intense stunts during filming.

“I love stunts (but) I’ve spent so many years doing it that I’m so broken,” he admits.

In 2022, Reynolds said Jimmy Fallon that he had broken 12 bones and had undergone seven surgeries as a result of all his injuries from action movies, and that he was not looking to increase that number on set Deadpool and Wolverine.

“I can usually do ‘fighty fighty’ type stuff, (but) if you see me do something where I do a triple axel quadruple flip and land on my own eyelid, that’s a stunt,” he says, before focusing on Jackman.

“Then you watch this guy – excuse me, this asshole – go out and do everything!”

Jackman just laughs and shrugs, unfazed as ever. And why wouldn’t he be?

The 55-year-old Australian is truly Hollywood’s ultimate triple threat; he does his own stunts, he can sing, he can dance.

And with all that “fighting” and the physical demands of a blockbuster like this, it’s a wonder Reynolds and Jackman aren’t tired.

For Reynolds, at least, he is fully aware of the sacrifices he is making to bring Deadpool vs Wolverine live.

“I have the best job ever, but some of the sacrifices I have to make are that I’m not home as much as I’d like to be with my family,” the actor admitted during his stay in Seoul.

“That’s why I haven’t done it in six years, because it swallows up my whole life.”

It was his eldest daughter James Reynolds who threatened to “divorce” her famous father if he had another. dead Pool movie.

““My nine-year-old daughter said to me, ‘You’re cut,'” he explained. “She said she was going to divorce me if I ever did a dead Pool “Another movie.”

If his family is reading this, we hope they love Australia, because Deadpool in Australia This could well happen in the not-too-distant future.

After all, there’s no place like home – just ask Jackman.

Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine is released in Australia and New Zealand on July 25.

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