"I’ve always harboured the Japanese story [Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's version of Wolverine].

When I was doing X-Men I was obsessed with reading the Japanese story. It gave me a lot of great inspiration for the character and I’ve forever been banging onto people about that.

It’s the coolest – and can you imagine visually? I can see the comedy of him training with the Samurai. I can just see it working.


So I love playing Wolverine, but if it becomes clears to me we’re doing something that the people have had enough of or if they want someone else to play him… Whatever. I’m not the kind of person to doggedly hold on.

So right now we’ve got to set up a character, the origin. So everyone at the end of that movie has to go, “Yes! Wolverine!” And it’s actually answered a couple of questions I’ve never had answered before in the comics and you go, “I get him. Now where can we take him?”

What adventures can that character go on now that we know him?"