# other than Hugh jackman who would have played a great wolverine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909 "2003-06-24T01:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909/21 "2003-06-24T15:14:34Z")
Harvey Keitel in his younger days - good call **paulberserker** Bob Hoskins in his younger days - short, ornery, hairy, physical Maybe the fella - what is it - Marcus Chong, who played Tank in the Matrix? If his quirky energy could be channeled into a menacing place - he seemed short, muscular and intense… Jackman does a great job, but I wish he were shorter, less classically handsome and more hairy. The biggest risk I could think of, but might’ve paid off, is Robin Williams - short, hairy and intense - his comedy can come from very dark places - if he could channel that energy well, he could’ve done an interesting job. But he is not young enough and although he is a physical comedian, I don’t know if we could be sold on his physical menace, whereas as someone like Hoskins, although he was silly in Roger Rabbit, was very physically menacing in a number of other films… ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909/22 "2003-06-24T17:39:58Z")
I dunno about Wolverine, but I say that Daniel Day Lewis would have made a Cyclops about a bazillion times better than whoever that guy is that plays him now. Ugh. He’s the only member of the cast who I think was seriously mischosen. That, and Anna Paquin can’t even keep her accent from slipping in when she’s trying to do generic American, much less pull off a full-on Southern accent without sliding all over the place. LC ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909/23 "2003-06-24T18:06:00Z")
Buddy Hackett ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909/24 "2003-06-24T18:22:57Z")
Jackman was the perfect choice. If not him, then some other unknown actor would have been best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-hugh-jackman-who-would-have-played-a-great-wolverine/183909.md?page=1)