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Hugh Jackman thought wolverine was mythical animal before X-Men movies

Hugh Jackman talks about his final X-Men film 'Logan' and his legacy playing Wolverine. Time

Movie star Hugh Jackman is perhaps best known as "Wolverine," the mercurial mutant within the X-Men, the Marvel comic book series created by Stan Lee and crystallized in a series of motion pictures.

Jackman was a guest on Tuesday night on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on CBS.

After giving a nice tribute to Lee, who died on Monday at age 95, Colbert asked Jackman about playing Wolverine in "X-Men," which was released in the summer of 2000.