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Hugh Jackman Is Back for a Brutal Victory Lap in Logan as Kevin Harley Discovers, the Future Is Worth Fighting for…
 

As any family knows, long-haul car journeys are a reliable source of heightened interpersonal emotions. Just ask Patrick Stewart, who got a potent dose of the feels while shooting a road-trip scene from Logan with his surrogate screen son-of-sorts Hugh Jackman and X-movie newcomer Dafne Keen. Sweltering in 110-degree heat in Mississippi, this alterna family chafed, laughed and, by Jackman’s reckoning, had a bit of a moment after a “classic, bickering-family kind of argument”.

“We called cut,” recalls the garrulous star, “and Patrick goes, ‘Oh…’. And Dafne asks, ‘What’s the matter, are you hot?’ He goes, ‘No, I’m just sad. I’ll never get to do that scene again. The hardest thing about film is when you get a great scene like that and you only get to do it for one day in your life and then it’s gone.’”

Logan is a film of many farewells. It waves a goodbye claw to 12A ratings and X-Men saga continuity conundrums. R-rated in the US, the ninth screen outing for Jackman’s Wolverine occupies a discreet temporal point beyond previous X-Men plot-lines; about five years after the conclusion to Days Of Future Past.

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