Despite what the title might suggest, this story is not as awful as it sounds – yet it is, however, the most surreal instruction director Shawn Levy has likely ever given on a film set.
During the making of Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in their respective titular roles, the latter revealed the details of his fitness regime, thanking the cast and crew for aiding him behind the scenes – in a social media post with Jackman topless above an audio reel.
Jackman praises a makeup artist by the name of Whitney, who would be drafted in to apply “some kind of oil” to help make his skin “glisten.”
Hopefully, that was not as strange as you first expected. “You would hear Shawn Levy yell out, ‘Fresh lube on Hugh.’ And everyone would sort of cringe a little bit. Not cringe, laugh,” Jackman explained in the clip (skip to the two-minute eighteen-second mark for the quote).
I am grateful. pic.twitter.com/1OdGjhe3HF
— Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) September 4, 2024
In a previous clip shared to X (once Twitter), Levy commended Jackman for his efforts in the film. “We marvel at your work, we watch it time and again, and we say lines alongside you and we marvel at the moments that you craft,” Levy tells Jackman. “What a blessing to do it together.”
In response, Jackman was excited to watch the film “with an audience” and “for the fans to see this. It’s just, like, heroin in their eyeballs.”
Deadpool & Wolverine stars Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Emma Corrin, Matthew Macfadyen, Dafne Keen, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Chris Evans and Channing Tatum.
The film recently surpassed a box office milestone.
