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May 2009 

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Entertainment In Brief

Canada’s cold contribution to Jackman’s Wolverine. Plus, The Da Vinci Code fresco that could be yours

Toronto’s gift to Hugh Jackman?

A Cold Shower

According to Marvel lore, The X-Men’s Wolverine hails from Alberta, spent time hiding in a B.C. mining colony and served in the Canadian army. But Wolverine’s Canuck roots aren’t the only way our country influenced actor Hugh Jackman’s portrayal of the character in this month’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine — and, in fact, all of the X-Men movies.

 

Jackman recently told Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper that his approach to the character dates back to a chilly Toronto morning in late 1999. He was in the city filming the first X-Men movie (which turned out to be the  actor’s big break) when he was forced to do something that has since become an exercise he carries out each day before shooting a scene as Wolverine.

 

“I had to wake up at 5 a.m. for filming and it was cold,” Jackman tells the paper. “I wanted to get a shower but there was no hot water. So I just jumped in and I couldn’t make any noise because I didn’t want to wake up my wife.


“I stayed in the shower for 35 seconds and I said to myself, ‘That’s it. That’s Wolverine.’ He wants to yell and scream and take everybody’s head off and be angry but he can’t. He’s trying to hold it in.”


The film’s sequel, X2, was shot in Toronto and B.C., X-Men: The Last Stand was filmed largely in B.C., and the new movie, Wolverine, spread out over locations from B.C. to Australia and New Zealand. But no matter where in the world he’s donning those mutton chops, Jackman’s Toronto-born tradition stays strong.


“Ever since that moment I have had a cold shower every morning. If you imagine waking up and having an ice-cold shower, all you have to do is remember it and instantly you just want to smack someone.”


Glad we could help.

 

—Marni Weisz

 

 

Artifact

This month’s objet de film

The Da Vinci Code fresco

As Angels & Demons, the second movie based on novelist Dan Brown’s master symbologist Robert Langdon, hits theatres, we admit we’re a bit nostalgic for all of the controversy and outrage that surrounded the first movie, The Da Vinci Code.


If you feel the same, you may be interested in purchasing this faux fresco from Lincoln Cathedral, an Anglican church in Lincoln, England, that stood in for London’s Westminster Abbey in the 2006 film. Last year, the cathedral auctioned off props that were left behind by the production, but several chunks of imitation Westminster Abbey frescoes are still available. This is a detail from a four- by two-foot piece that’s selling for £295, or $525 Canadian.


Go to LincolnCathedral.com for more information about how to order.

 

—Marni Weisz

 



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