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Hugh Jackman to take a break from acting
Actor also reveals his embarrassment at not knowing wolverines were real.
Hugh Jackman has revealed that he's planning to take a break from acting.
The 'Wolverine' star reckons that he might be pushing his luck with his family after filming four major movies in quick succession.
“I'm taking a little while off, I don't know if I'm taking a year, this movie now is my fourth movie a row,” he told Australia's 'Kyle and Jackie O Show'.
“I'm being very greedy. There's a thing called being in the dog box, that's me.”
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As well as filming director James Mangold's 'The Wolverine', he will play the same role in the forthcoming Bryan Singer-directed 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
Having donned the claws to play near-immortal mutant Logan seven times now, he now knows all there is to know about the character.
But it wasn't always that way.
Jackman has admitted that at first he didn't realise they were actual creatures.
[Hugh Jackman reveals he won't be Wolverine forever]
He revealed that when he arrived on set to play Logan for the first time, he did a little research, but in rather the wrong direction.
He told MTV: “I'm going to tell you a very embarrassing story. When I got there, I had three weeks before filming, and we were in Toronto. Not knowing what a wolverine was, or that it was a real animal, I was going past the IMAX, and I saw this IMAX showing of wolves.
“I was like, well, a wolverine is a wolf sort of thing, so I went in there, and that was where I got this thing of [facing] down like wolves smelling the ground while I'm looking.
“Bryan Singer said to me at one point: 'It's a little weird physically. But it's interesting,' And I said, 'Yeah, man, I've been studying wolves and I think if we could bring that to the screen,' and he goes, 'You're not a wolf, man, you're a wolverine!'”
“I said, 'Well, there's obviously no wolverine,' and he said, 'No, that's actually an animal. It's small, and there's really no point in studying its movements - it's a more metaphoric idea.'
“I've never been more humiliated in my life, particularly as I spent three weeks, a la drama school, going through wolf movements.”
Well, he got there in the end.
His latest excursion, 'The Wolverine', is out now.
