VIDEO: Hugh Jackman Says Final Farewell to Iconic WOLVERINE Role
By: Caryn Robbins Aug. 22, 2016
Hugh Jackman turned to Instagram today to say farewell to his signature mutton chops which he dons for his portrayal of WOLVERINE. The actor wrapped filming on the third, currently untitled installment of the superhero franchise.
The Tony award winning actor recently confirmed that the latest film will be the last time he will portray the character. Jackman captioned the video: "My wife is going to be very happy," adding the hashtag #GoodbyeChops.
Wolverine 3 is set to hit theaters on March 3, 2017.
Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011. Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the TONY AWARDS Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, oppositeDaniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.
Additional theater: Carousel at Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London (Olivier nomination), Sunset Boulevard (MO Award, Australia's Tony Award) and Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (MO Award nomination). Jackman made his first major U.S. film appearance as Wolverine in the first installment of the X-Men series, a role he reprised in the enormously successful X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and in The Wolverine in 2013. Jackman reunited with the X-men team for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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