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Rumors recently circulated that Daniel Radcliffe would play Wolverine, most notably played by longtime actor Hugh Jackman, but Radcliffe told The View that it’s not true.
“I deny, yes,” he said when co-host Ana Navarro pressed him on the topic during Monday’s episode. “This is something that comes up every so often, I think because in the comics Wolverine is short, so every so often they’re like, ‘Who’s a short actor?’ There’s never been any actual truth to it. Every so often I get bored of answering the questions sensibly, so I just make a joke like I did the other day and that sort of has reignited the rumors of it, but there’s nothing going on.”
Still, the 32-year-old actor added that he wouldn’t be opposed to anyone — including franchise fans — from pushing for him to play Wolverine.
“I will not stop anybody from doing anything,” he said. “Any comparison that implies me being even remotely in the world of Hugh Jackman is inherently flattering.”
Jackman is notably known for his role as Wolverine across nine films between 2000 and 2017. His final appearance as the character was in the Oscar-nominated Logan.
Radcliffe, now starring alongside Sandra Bullock in The Lost City, also said last week that he’s not planning on returning for the Cursed Child film adaptation of the Harry Potter franchise. He told the New York Times that it isn’t “something I’m really interested in doing right now.”
“This isn’t the answer that anybody’s going to want, but I think I was so able to go back and enjoy it because it’s not a part of my day-to-day life anymore,” Radcliffe said. “I’m getting to a point where I feel like I made it out of Potter okay and I’m really happy with where I am now, and to go back would be such a massive change to my life. I’m never going to say never, but the Star Wars guys had like 30, 40 years before they went back.”
