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Hugh Jackman Reveals the Hardest Part of Becoming Wolverine Again at 55 — and It Wasn’t the Crazy Workouts

Hugh Jackman opens up about getting back into superhero shape at age 55 for 'Deadpool & Wolverine,' sharing with PEOPLE the hardest part of getting his body ready for the film.

hugh jackman/instagram Jackman admits that a lot of that physicality came from working with stunt coordinator Brian Smrz, who introduced him to the idea of dance training in order to do the action sequences successfully. “I noticed that in the film that we would change things quite quickly and say, ‘Okay, let's try this and that.’ And particularly the physicality — that ability, the dance and that background — really came in because you would do stuff where I was convinced when you were coming at me a few times, there is no way this guy's pulling his punch,” he says with a laugh. “When Hugh Jackman is coming at you at 150 Australian miles per hour, you feel like there's no way you're not going to be dead in four seconds,” Reynolds quips.

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