Tom Cruise “wouldn’t let” Dougray Scott play Wolverine in X-Men

It’s frequent information that actor Dougray Scott was signed on to play Wolverine within the X-Men films earlier than Hugh Jackman took over and completely made the position his personal.

Scott was filming Mission: Impossible II, which infamously ran manner over time and funds, and Fox could not proceed to attend for the actor earlier than starting manufacturing.

But, in an interview with The Telegraph, the actor says that he blames M:I main man Tom Cruise for holding him from enjoying the clawed mutant.

– Watch Hugh Jackman’s superb unique Wolverine audition from 1999

“Tom Cruise didn’t let me do it,” he mentioned. “We had been doing Mission: Impossible and he was like, ‘You’ve acquired to remain and end the movie’ and I mentioned I’ll, however I’ll go and try this as effectively. For no matter motive he mentioned I could not.”

“He was a very powerful guy. Other people were doing everything to make it work.”

Still, he does not bear any ailing will in opposition to Jackman, stating that: “I love what Hugh did with (the Wolverine character). He’s a lovely guy.”

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Interestingly, X-Men wasn’t the one main film that was affected by Mission: Impossible‘s prolonged filming. In truth, it may be one of the essential films of the century to this point.

Recently, Scott joined a superhero venture as he signed as much as the play the titular hero’s father in The CW’s Batwoman.

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