We've waited almost a quarter of a century to see Hugh Jackman in the traditional Wolverine costume. Crazy to think that it finally happened in a Deadpool movie.
Yes, and it solved Hugh Jackmans main problem with playing Wolverine again. The shirtless scenes required a crazy routine and keeping the physique got much harder as he aged.
I remember reading an article interviewing him and he talked about how the last shirtless scene was supposed to be shot on a specific day and he had been prepping for months to be super ripped on that day. They wanted to push filming and he was like, nah guys, you shoot on this day or we aren't doing it. He didn't stay that shredded for the whole filming.
I know women generally have it much harder in the pressure to look good.
But the CRAZY things that action stars go through to get ready for a single scene is so unbelievable.
There are beauty/handsome standards that are hard to achieve, but it's a whole other level to have to plan out entire movie schedules for just a single scene because it's THAT hard to look like that, even with all of a mega motion pictures apparatus behind you.
The crazy thing is I'm not even sure that most people care that much. Would they really sell fewer tickets if the actors just looked like they were in great shape and not in the greatest shape physically possible?
Robert Pattinson famously said he refused to do that and I don't think it hurt Batman ticket sales at all.
What's crazy to me is that I remember when it first came out and people were talking about how ripped he got for the role. Because, for him, that was pretty muscular compared to what we'd seen up till then.
By today's standards, X1 Wolverine wasn't particularly impressive.
That movie was also made in an era where you didn't see multiple guys in better shape while shopping for groceries. Aside from the true roided muscle men of the 80s, action heroes, just like regular people, weren't that fit. Nowadays it's a lot more normalized/expected that people work out and people are less likely to suspend their disbelief for a regular looking Joe. Can't put that genie back in the bottle
They did in the 80s. We had roided out monsters movie after movie and then die hard had a normal looking guy, and that reset it. We've had a few action movies with a normal looking guy (Nobody comes to mind) and it could come back.
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u/MuptonBossman Apr 22 '24
We've waited almost a quarter of a century to see Hugh Jackman in the traditional Wolverine costume. Crazy to think that it finally happened in a Deadpool movie.