It was a sad day when Hugh Jackman announced that Logan would be his last time playing Wolverine and that he was retiring from playing the Marvel character, but it was understandable! He had been playing the character for years, and Logan was just such a wonderful send-off to the character.
As you know, though, the retirement was short-lived, and Jackman is set to play Wolverine once again in Deadpool 3. But, long before that deal was set in stone, there was an exact moment in his life when he regretted his retirement. He talked about that moment in an interview with Deadline, saying:
“Well, I was 20 minutes into watching Deadpool and I had just announced, literally, a few weeks before that Logan was going to be my last, which I fully intended. And then I was like, ‘Uh-oh.’…I was just driving out to the beach. It was mid-August, I had a week off from the show (The Music Man on Broadway), my first week off in eight, nine months, 10 months. And it came to me like, ‘I really want to do that.’ And that was it.
“As soon as I arrived at the beach, I rang Ryan (Reynolds) just to see what the hell was going on. And then here we are. It was so quick. And trust me, there’s not a morning I don’t wake up where Ryan Reynolds is outside my house with posters saying, ‘Please.’ He’s constantly asking me about it. And I was like, ‘Dude, I’m done. I’m done, I’m done, I’m done, I’m done, I’m done.’ So then when he rang me [back], he was like, ‘Are you serious?’ So yeah. I’m a terrible poker player. All this time I was saying I was done, I really meant it. But anyway, somewhere deep down, this idea was obviously lurking and brewing.”
I’m happy that Jackman no longer retired and that we’ll get to see him as Wolverine at least one last time. It would be pretty crazy if he actually ends up playing the character long after Deadpool 3. I have no idea what Marvel’s plans are for Wolverine, but we’ll find out soon enough.