Liam McIntyre said the Wolverine actor role in Marvel’s Wolverine starts with listening to what came before. He drew on decades of prior performances, then tried to build a version of Logan that feels like his own when the game reaches PS5 on Sept. 15.
“It was every single one,” McIntyre said when asked which earlier versions shaped his performance. He added that he had “so many great teachers” and was trying to find “your own sort of spin or take on it.”
Hugh Jackman and the others
McIntyre named Hugh Jackman, Cal Dodd and Steve Blum among the performers he studied. He said he saw “such a great display of what makes Wolverine Wolverine” in their work, then tried to find “the essence of that character” without copying it.
That is the practical line he has to walk in Marvel’s Wolverine. The character arrives with decades of recognition already attached, so the challenge is not whether he can imitate a predecessor, but whether he can carry the same core traits into a new performance without flattening them into a repeat.
Finding Logan’s own spin
McIntyre said he looked at Wolverine’s history, studied the words he was given and figured out which pieces of himself could fit into the character. “That’s the joy of acting, right?” he said. “Trying to build on the shoulders of greats.”
His own phrasing puts the job in plain terms: learn the past, then move past it. For fans of Marvel’s Wolverine, that means the performance is being framed less as a replacement for earlier versions than as a continuation of them, with a different voice inside the same character.
Sept. 15 on PS5
Marvel’s Wolverine is set to launch on PlayStation 5 on Sept. 15, giving Sony and Insomniac Games a new entry built around one of Marvel’s most heavily interpreted characters. McIntyre can also be heard as Ax Battler in Golden Axe, which premieres Sept. 16 with all 10 episodes releasing at once.
That pairing leaves the same basic test in front of his Wolverine work: audiences will judge whether his take feels distinct while still carrying the traits that made Hugh Jackman, Cal Dodd and Steve Blum matter in the first place. On the evidence he has given, McIntyre is not trying to erase those versions. He is trying to sound like the next layer on top of them.
