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Hugh Jackman Recalls Being Treated Kindly By Marvel’s Kevin Feige After An Underwhelming Wolverine Audition


Hugh Jackman thought he bew the audition for Wolverine. Kevin Feige had other ideas.

It’s hard to imagine now, but it was no shoe-in that Hugh Jackman would become Wolverine in the Marvel films. Jackman confessed to Entertainment Weekly that he was utterly convinced he had blown his audition for the role in 2000’s X-Men film. Enter Kevin Feige, who is now the President of Marvel Studios, but back then was a producer’s assistant.

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