Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / Hugh Jackman Expresses How He Really Feels About Finally Wearing Wolverine’s Iconic Yellow Suit
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: The new movie Deadpool and Wolverine sees Hugh Jackman returning
- 0:06Speaker 2: to play Wolverine for the first time since twenty seventeen's Logan,
- 0:08Speaker 2: a character he's been playing for a quarter century now,
- 0:11Speaker 2: but this new installment also marks another first. Hugh finally
- 0:14Speaker 2: wears Wolverine's iconic yellow and blue suit, which is exactly
- 0:17Speaker 2: how the superhero was always portrayed in the comic books
- 0:20Speaker 2: before he was ever in a film, and Hugh admits
- 0:22Speaker 2: to Variety he wasn't instantly on board with the outfit, saying,
- 0:25Speaker 2: when I first started this in nineteen ninety nine, every
- 0:28Speaker 2: superhero was in black leather. Part of my brain was
- 0:31Speaker 2: institutionalized that that's just the way it is. Then, gradually
- 0:34Speaker 2: watching other Marvel movies, I realized this might actually look cool.
- 0:37Speaker 2: As soon as I put it on, I couldn't believe
- 0:38Speaker 2: I never had before, and Hugh was coastar Ryan Reynolds,
- 0:41Speaker 2: knew it was the right decision the moment hughes struded
- 0:43Speaker 2: on the set wearing Wolverine's original threads, adding I've never
- 0:47Speaker 2: seen a crew reaction like that. We barely talked about
- 0:50Speaker 2: the suit in the early development because it was a
- 0:51Speaker 2: no brainer, you don't do this character now unless he's
- 0:54Speaker 2: in the suit. Deadpool and Wolverine. It's theaters July twenty sixth.
- 0:58Speaker 1: That's direct from hollyod What