Daniel Radcliffe Reveals Source of Wolverine Rumours

Daniel Radcliffe is the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. Because it dashes people’s expectations, apparently! The former Harry Potter star has carved out a solid career in adulthood, choosing odd roles ranging from a haunted doctor in The Woman in Black to a farting corpse in Daniels’ Swiss Army Man, to the king of parodies himself Weird Al Yankovic for the upcoming Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. But the character with whom Radcliffe has been most recently associated is not the Boy Who Lived, but the X-Men’s premier Canucklehead, Wolverine.

As Kevin Feige makes plans to bring the X-Men into the MCU, fans have been casting their choices for the various mutants, none more vigorously than Wolverine. Some of the names thrown around include both Antony Starr and Karl Urban of The Boys and Taron Egerton of Kingsman: The Secret Service. But standing at 5’5″, Radcliffe perhaps has the best claim to playing the famously short Logan. In fact, Radcliffe began saying as much to the press, telling Marvel to cast him because he’s short.

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But on his press tour for Weird, Radcliffe has started to change the words to this familiar tune. Speaking with the Phase Zero podcast, the actor stated that while he’ll usually be honest and tell people who imagine him as Wolverine, “That’s not a thing, and that’s not happening,” his mischievous side sometimes gets the better of him. “Every so often I’ll be bored of answering like that and I’ll be like ‘ah, come and get me, Marvel!’,” Radcliffe admitted. “And then I’ll be like, ‘That was a dumb thing to say. Why do I ever say that?’”