Apparently Hugh Jackman may have accidentally stabbed a stuntwoman whilst filming the very first X-Men movie. During a fight scene in the film where we were first introduced to the character of Wolverine he caught the stuntwoman in the arm
The character Wolverine has an endoskeleton of Adamantium and so the Australian actor was wearing real metal talons while filming the 2000 comic book blockbuster. The props were in fact quite dangerous.
In an interview Hugh Jackman recalled an incident which left the stuntwoman playing Rebecca Romijn's double quite seriously hurt. This event was instrumental in forcing the moviemakers to revisit the manner in which they were to film the scenes involving the superhero's famous claws.
Jackman says, "On the very first film we had real metal claws and the girl who was playing Mystique, Rebecca Romijn, her stunt double and I were doing a fight sequence in the Statue of Liberty. I went to stab her in the arm, which was part of the choreography, and she's meant to move her arm away and she forgot and the thing went right into her arm, like an inch.
"I was stunned. It was one of those things, it was so deep, there was a hole, there was no blood coming out and then like a minute later, it was like a geyser. I didn't faint and I thought she was going to freak out, but she just said, 'Yes! I have been stabbed by Wolverine!' Typical stuntwoman."
Jackman's latest film X-Men Origins: Wolverine will premiere in Tempe, Arizona on 27 April 2009.
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