Hugh Jackman reprises his iconic role as logan aka Wolverine who has aged and is sick. He talks about his movie and the character
What transformation Wolverine has gone through in loganIJ
He’s very lost and despondent and older. He’s physically sick and I would say spiritually, emotionally, he’s not in a great place. He finds out that there is a very high levels of mercury in his body. Apparently from eating tins of tuna but I thought well, what happens when a guy walks around for 130 years filled with metalIJ Even though he has an immune system and can heal, at some point everyone on this planet starts to slow down. The body’s ability to fight gets lesser. He really doesn’t have much to live for.
What is his living situationIJ
The way it’s set up, just before our movie opens - maybe six months or a year before—there was some event involving Charles Xavier, played brilliantly by Patrick Stewart because he's older too and one thing we explore with his character is what happens when the most powerful brain on the planet falls victim to dementia of some kind. We don’t get into specifics. Is it AlzheimersIJ Is it dementiaIJ But we know that he’s now dangerous because when his brain doesn’t work things happen. He has these seizures and people around him fall into comas. Cars crash, things happen, so some event like that has happened and because he's pretty much like a father figure to Wolverine in the movies, Wolverine takes him in.
Tell us about laura, played by Dafne KeenIJ
Yes, she’s a mutant as well. And we all three of them have been hiding out for, and all of a sudden their world is invaded upon because of laura. She’s been taken by this nurse, Gabriella, from a facility and they are looking for logan for a very specific purpose.