Hugh Jackman enjoys getting naked on set | The Graham Norton Show - BBC

Was it the Wolverine Origin movie that you had to do the running naked down the corridor? No, there was X-Men 2. Actually, no, the first day of X-Men Origins I ran naked. I quite enjoy it, really. It's a very freeing feeling, actually. Take your clothes off. It's wonderful. Should we do it? No. I've got a pineapple running gag. I remember we had to go down this hallway and I had to run. I was meant to be naked. It was very dark. I jokingly went in and said, I want a clothes set for this. The first AD was laughing. We went to the first take. I'm running. It's a very intense scene where I first realise I have an adamantium skeleton. I've been experimenting. I'm naked. There's blood. As I run around the corner, the first AD had the entire crew of females. All the females on the crew. With like five dollar nose going, And of course, the first thing I did was like, I did cut myself on the inner thigh. When you see the inner thigh, you mean... No, actually the inner thigh, thankfully. DIY circumcision. I did the guy. Elvis is PG-13, so you can't have bits and pieces flying about, right? The censors in America don't like that kind of stuff. As my rap gear from Bryan Singer, the director, he gave me a bag. It was a little bag. It was very light. I looked inside. It had film inside it. I'm like, what's film? I look up. Okay, that's my bits. My bits in bits. You've got the classic claws. The boys have also come up with their signature poses. James, yours is the finger. Fingering my brain, right? Was there much discussion about that? Or did you just kind of go, I'll do this? No, I just did it. I thought, Patrick never did it. He's missed a beat. That old fool. When he utilizes his power, there's a lot of close-ups of him going, like that. And I thought, that's not dynamic, but do you know what is? This. That's how you do it. And I thought to myself, if I'm aiming for number 16, that's the route. That's how I get there. Did you and Patrick discuss it? Is Patrick a bit miffed that now you've come up with a bit of a dynamic action? Yeah. No, he's happy not to finger himself, but he has said that if I would like to ever finger him, and place my fingers on his head, then I can. But in this movie, you get to meet Patrick Stewart. I get to go nose-to-nose with Patrick Stewart. So were you, did you have to be much more conscious? Because in the first film, that was never going to happen. So in this one, were you much more conscious of, I'm going to have to turn into Patrick Stewart in a minute? No, I was kind of ignoring the fact that anybody else had ever played it. And even when I was going face-to-face with him, I was still trying to pretend that it was only ever me that's ever going to play the part. So I was being modest, by the way. It was his first day, and he had about a three-page scene, one of the pivotal scenes in the movie, and it was phenomenal. I'm at that point meant to be unconscious, and I was, I knew I wasn't on camera, so I was doing one of those, looking, and it was phenomenal. He is absolutely brilliant. And your first day was, honestly, you should clap it, because he is a genius. Seriously, though, you should clap it. And, Michael, were you the same? Were you kind of thinking, oh, God, you know, Ian McKellen, in a minute, it's going to be him. Yeah. The voice and stuff. Yeah, well, I just sort of steal. I stole everything from him. No, I didn't actually get to do a scene with him. We had to toss a coin. It was either me and Ian or James and Patrick. So I just got to meet him in Comic-Con, but I'd spent sort of quite a lot of time watching. There's a clip of him on YouTube, giving actually a workshop on Shakespeare and on the Scottish play, which I was ending up sort of going to be doing after, well, just finished it now, so it was kind of weird, but I just listened to that on a loop. It's about ten minutes long, and it's a younger Ian McKellen. And tell us about your signature pose. Did you discuss it, or did you just come up with it yourself? No, I just thought, you know, I figured jazz hands combined with a suitable level of constipation, I thought that would give the correct intensity. No, can I just say, you're not that wrong. Here's a picture of you doing it. Yeah, I know I'm not wrong. That's what I was doing, dude. That's what I'm jazz-handing. You can't see, I'm actually sitting on a toilet. Fuck the rest of that. Where's that toilet paper? My face really is like, ooh, ooh. That's not good. No, you're sitting, you're going, it's working. It's coming. No, I like James' face in this picture, because James does look... Yep, it's working. Damn it. And Michael does look like he could burst into song at any time.