Daniel Radcliffe Responds to Rumor He’s Playing Wolverine

It’s been 5 years now for the reason that final Hugh Jackman efficiency as Wolverine in Logan — and thus 5 years of hypothesis about who could exchange him because the character. And that hypothesis has solely gotten louder since Disney purchased twentieth Century Fox, bringing the X-Males characters again below their Marvel banner, and setting the stage for a full-fledged film reboot of the property.

It hasn’t occurred but — and now Jackman is definitely returning to play Wolverine no less than yet another time in Deadpool 3. However finally he will really retire, and somebody will nearly definitely be forged to exchange him. However who?

One barely unusual but persistent rumor is that Daniel Radcliffe is the person for the job. On the one hand, the previous Harry Potter is a bit on the slight aspect to performed a buffed up superhero. Then again, Wolverine’s a brief dude! Within the comics he’s supposedly solely about 5’3, whereas Radcliffe is round 5’5. (Jackman is over 6 ft tall.) So with sufficient protein shakes and weight lifting, Radcliffe-verine is not an outrageous concept.

However Radcliffe himself says it isn’t going to occur. In a latest interview with GQ, Radcliffe known as speak of him as the following Wolverine “purely a press tour rumor.” Including…

I say one thing, after which sometimes I get tired of answering that approach so I say one thing completely different, and that units it off once more. I ought to simply by no means open my mouth.

He additionally added that he’s searching for “flexibility” in roles sooner or later and that he doesn’t “ever wish to get locked into one thing that I’m not certain I will love the identical quantity the entire time.” Provided that whoever is forged as the following Wolverine might be taking a look at a decade-plus dedication — Jackman is now in his twenty second 12 months as Logan — that may undoubtedly rule Radcliffe out.

So that you’ll need to preserve speculating for now — and since Jackman isn’t finished as Wolverine till no less than subsequent fall, there’s no rush to discover a substitute now. Radcliffe will subsequent be seen in Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story premiering solely on the Roku Channel this Friday.