Jerry Seinfeld convinced Hugh Jackman to stop playing Wolverine

HUGH Jackman has revealed that it was Jerry Seinfeld who convinced him to make “Logan” the last ever movie in which he’d play Wolverine.

HUGH Jackman has revealed it was Jerry Seinfeld who convinced him to make Logan his last ever Wolverine movie.

Jackman first played the clawed mutant in 2000’s X-Men film and reprised the role a further seven times before a chat with Jerry Seinfeld motivated him to make one final movie.

“I had a dinner with Jerry Seinfeld, who’s a friend of mine,” Jackman explained recently to Willem Dafoe during Variety’s Actors on Actors series.

“I was asking him about the end of the series [Seinfeld]. I said, ‘How did you decide?’ And long story, he kind of said, ‘Look, I’ve always believed ... you should never spend everything creatively because it’s almost herculean to start up again. You should always have something in the tank. Leave the party before it gets too late ... and then somehow it spurs you into the next thing’.”

The advice struck a chord with Jackman.

“I said to Deb [his wife] on my way home in a cab, ‘This is the last one. I just know this is the last one.’”

The dinner conversation percolated in Jackman’s mind and the next morning he woke up with “a very strong idea” of how to treat his character the final Wolverine movie.

“Treating him not like a superhero but as a human being who’s lived a life of violence,” Jackman said. “Let’s make a movie about the ramifications of violence. I was thinking The Wrestler, The Unforgiven.”

Released earlier this year, Logan was a hit with both the audience and critics and currently has a 93 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and raked in more than $814 million worldwide.

And Jackman couldn’t have been happier with how the film turned out.

“It wasn’t until I saw the premiere in Berlin and literally at the end I cried,” he said.

Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman in Logan. Picture: Fox