‘Wolverine’ star Hugh Jackman says it took a team of 8 people to get him into superhero shape
nypost.comHugh Jackman is still in superhero shape.The “Deadpool & Wolverine” star took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a shirtless mirror selfie with his 34 million followers. “I am grateful,” Jackman captioned the post of himself in black sweatpants flexing his muscles in the mirror.Along with his shirtless selfie, Jackman attached a nearly four-minute-long voice note, crediting “eight people” for helping him get in shape.“I’ve had a lot of people who talk to me and ask me questions about how I got into shape,” he said. “What I did, what I ate, how I trained, how hard is it at your age?
Just wanted to take a second and say, yeah I had to turn up, I had to do those deadlifts, I had to eat those meals, but I had an incredible team who helped me.
There’s no hope in hell I would have gotten there without them.”Jackman mentioned Beth Lewis, who has been the actor’s trainer over the past several years.
He also thanked his makeup artist, Whitney James, who enhanced his figure for “Deadpool & Wolverine.”“Whitney, my makeup artist, was called to put on some kind of oil to make my skin glisten,” he explained. “You would hear [director] Shawn Levy yell out, ‘Fresh lube on Hugh!’ Everyone would laugh.”Fans and his peers quickly congratulated Jackman on maintaining his physique.
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