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Daniel Radcliffe as soon as once more addressed rumors that he’s taking part in Wolverine in an upcoming X-Males mission.
The Harry Potter actor, 34, has lengthy been the topic of hypothesis surrounding his supposed casting because the beloved character, beforehand performed by Hugh Jackman within the movie franchise. The gossip was reignited earlier this 12 months after photographs emerged from the set of the actor’s TBS comedy sequence Miracle Employees — during which Radcliffe donned solely his underwear, exhibiting off his muscle-bound physique.
In a Vainness Honest lie detector interview printed on Tuesday, October 17, the actor — alongside his castmates within the Broadway musical revival Merrily We Roll Alongside — Radcliffe confronted the query but once more.
“Did you begin the Wolverine rumor?” his costar Lindsay Mendez requested Radcliffe, who was hooked as much as the lie detector machine. When Radcliffe stated no, she adopted up with, “So that you simply bought buff for no purpose?”
“I bought buff as a result of I’m obsessive, and I wish to … You’ve seen my mother and father, they’re, like, insane health folks,” Radcliffe responded. “In order that’s simply been handed on. However no. No Wolverine. Flattered, however no.”
Radcliffe beforehand denied the Wolverine rumors in a GQ profile in 2022, saying the hypothesis was “purely a press tour rumor.”

Daniel Radcliffe on ‘Miracle Employees: Oregon Path.’ Tyler Golden/TBS
He additionally supplied a proof in an interview with Leisure Weekly earlier that 12 months. “Wolverine is brief, so occasionally they’re like, ‘Who’s a brief actor?’” he stated. “There’s by no means been any precise reality to it. Occasionally I get tired of answering the questions sensibly, so I simply make a joke like I did the opposite day and that type of has reignited the rumors of it, however there’s nothing occurring.”
Regardless of getting “bored” of the questions, Radcliffe says he isn’t against the rumors that he’s taking part in the buff Marvel character.
“I cannot cease anyone from doing something,” he informed EW. “Any comparability that means me being even remotely on the planet of Hugh Jackman is inherently flattering.”
In September 2022, it was revealed that Jackman, 55, would reprise the position of Wolverine in Deadpool 3 alongside Ryan Reynolds, marking the actors’ first reunion since 2009’s Wolverine: Origins.

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. YouTube
“It’s not like including Hugh Jackman to a film like this can be a laborious promote. It’s an instantaneous and emphatic, unqualified sure,” Reynolds, 46, informed Collider on the time. “It’s a whole lot of shifting components and Fox and X-Males and all that sort of stuff that Marvel must kind by means of. Quite a lot of pink tape in an effort to make that occur. They usually did it.”
The movie is about to hit theaters in Might 2024.
