5 Fun Facts About The Wolverine (2013) #Shorts

5. The movie kicks off with Logan getting nuked in Nagasaki like it’s just another bad day at the office. The scene closely mirrors a moment from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Wolverine comic, where our favorite feral X-Man gets obliterated and starts regenerating mid-annihilation. Because not even an atomic bomb can keep this mutant down.

4. Tao Okamoto, who played Mariko, joined the film partly because she had a teenage crush on Hugh Jackman after seeing him in the first X-Men movie. By that logic, I should’ve starred in a movie with Drew Barrymore by now.

3. The Silver Samurai battle was all CGI, thanks to WETA, but here’s the cool part—there was actually a real 9-foot-tall, fully poseable mechanical prop made from over 600 individually designed parts. It was built using cutting-edge rapid prototyping tech, which is just a fancy way of saying big nerd magic.

2. Hugh Jackman is notorious for his extreme diets when prepping for Wolverine—high calories, tons of protein, basically all the chicken breast in existence. His ex-wife even said that his diet put him in a mood that was way too close to his character. So yeah, a hungry Wolverine is a grumpy Wolverine. Somebody get this man a Snickers.

1. To get that extra shredded look for his shirtless scenes, Jackman went on a dehydration diet, cutting out all liquids for 36 hours before filming. He said it made him feel "headachy" and faint, but hey, sacrifices gotta be made if you want peak ab visibility. And let’s be honest, the ladies definitely didn’t mind his hard work. Neither did some of the fellas. No judgments here.