Sim e não.
Nos filmes anteriores, a altura de Jackman não era um grande problema. Houve evidentemente uma decisão consciente para lançá-lo contra personagem
During the interview, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner recalled why Singer decided Jackman was the man to play Logan in 2000’s X-Men. “Hugh was a lot taller than the character, and Bryan wasn’t sure if he was the right guy,” she said. “So I said, ‘Let me send him up to you in Toronto,’ and Hugh went up, and Anna Paquin was there already, and they did a scene together, and after Bryan yelled ‘Cut!’ one of the crewmembers said, ‘Wow! That’s Wolverine.’ ”
Quando chegou ao autônomo The Wolverine , o diretor que inicialmente foi escalado para dirigir o filme (Darren Aronofsky, um conhecido fã de histórias em quadrinhos) aparentemente pediu a Jackman para aumentar um pouco, fazendo com que ele se parecesse mais com o personagem cômico original.
GB: Are you going to have to go back to that intense diet, eating whole chickens so you can get that muscle mass back up?
HJ: I’m on it right now, mate, already doing it. It’s 6,000 calories a day, it’s rough.
GB: How much you weighing?
HJ: Right now, I’m at 210.
GB: Wow, so you’re going to be bigger this time? Last time, you looked about, what, 190?
HJ: Yeah, right, I was 190, something like that. I don’t know how much I want to give away about it, but Darren said with the last one, ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.” He said that Wolverine, in the comics, is powerful, stocky, you know, he’s short and thick. So he said, ‘I want you to go there, get bigger.’ He’s going to come down after he gets done with all the black-tie events over and done with.