Hugh Jackman mistakenly studied wolves for first X-Men movie

Hugh Jackman embarrassed himself on the set of the first X-Men movie back in 1999, when he revealed just how ignorant he was of comic book hero Wolverine.
The Australian actor landed the role of the mutant and now admits he had no idea what a wolverine was.
“I had never read the comics and I didn’t know Wolverine,” he tells The View. “Embarrassingly, I presumed it was a wolf and I did all this wolf research.
“(The director) said to me, ‘You’re kinda walking a little funny’, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I love the way wolves always look down… and they’re smelling the ground and they’re smelling if there’s any foe…’ And he goes, ‘What do you mean wolf… You’re playing a wolverine’. I said, ‘There’s no such animal as a wolverine…'”
Director Bryan Singer urged his leading man to pay a visit to the zoo to perfect his research.
“That was three weeks of animal research (wasted),” Hugh adds. “I knew nothing!”