"I was about to do ‘X-Men 2’ and a call came from my agent asking if I’d be interested in Bond," says Jackman. "I just felt at the time that the scripts had become so unbelievable and crazy, and I felt like they needed to become grittier and real. And the response was: ‘Oh, you don’t get a say. You just have to sign on.’ I was also worried that between Bond and X-Men, I’d never have time to do different things."