{"id":13209,"date":"2017-02-20T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2017-02-20T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:12:03","slug":"hugh-jackman-shares-screen-with-newcomer-dafne-keen-in-logan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/hugh-jackman-shares-screen-with-newcomer-dafne-keen-in-logan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman shares screen with newcomer Dafne Keen in \u201cLogan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The movie opens with Logan (Hugh Jackman) in a vulnerable and broken state, the curse of his immortality wearing heavy on him as he cares for a weakened Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) in a derelict smelting plant at the edge of an abandoned oil field. They\u2019re joined there by a third mutant, Caliban (Stephen Merchant), sheltering in obscurity at a time when the world believes mutants have passed into history. \u00a0But Logan\u2019s days of drinking in relative solitude are interrupted when he finds himself the reluctant guardian of a young girl, Laura (Dafne Keen) who has powers remarkably like his own: from her hands as well as her feet spring the same adamantium claws as Wolverine\u2019s. Not that he\u2019s exactly eager to accept this newfound responsibility\u2014he\u2019s far too weary to play the hero once more.<\/p>\n

Tasked with protecting her from the murderous cybernetic criminal Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook), Logan and Professor X set out to cross hostile territory to ferry Laura to a place called Eden, where young mutants are said to enjoy safe haven.<\/p>\n

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Jackman had especially kind words for his young co-star, Dafne Keen, who makes her feature film debut with \u201cLogan\u201d with a virtuosic performance. \u201cShe\u2019s a phenomenal actress, and it\u2019s an honor to share the film with her,\u201d Jackman says. \u201cLaura, genetically, has Wolverine\u2019s DNA, so there are elements of him in her personality and her physicality and that\u2019s not easy to pull off. I found it hard to pull off when I was 30, let alone an 11-year-old-girl, and she\u2019s not like that at all. She\u2019s very bubbly, vivacious and energetic. Playing this constantly pissed off, rage-filled mutant who will take your head off if you look at her sideways is nothing like who she is, and she nailed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart, too, was impressed by her professionalism: \u201cShe\u2019s a child who performs with the weight and seriousness and intensity and diversity of a very experienced and worldly actress,\u201d Stewart says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLaura at the beginning is a very silent child,\u201d Keen says. \u201cShe can\u2019t express sadness like a normal child would do so she gets really angry and starts killing people. It\u2019s fun doing that and at the same time loving pink T-shirts and unicorns and rainbows and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is packed with brutal, visceral fight scenes, which presented some unique opportunities for Keen as Laura, who trained near her home in Spain before arriving to the U.S. for filming. \u201cWhen she got here, we had about one month with her,\u201d says stunt coordinator Garrett Warren.<\/p>\n

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Keen\u2019s background in gymnastics and aerial arts helped her master the fight choreography, and Jackman was wowed by his young co-star. \u201cDafne did most of her fighting in the film,\u201d he says. \u201cShe worked hard. When I say work, she loved it. She didn\u2019t want to leave stunt training. I looked over one day and she had my claws on and she was beaming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other actors and filmmakers were like family to me,\u201d Keen says. \u201cI felt safe. I was always more focused on my character and what her longing for a normal family life which is what she is so desperately fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rated R-16 by the local censors board (MTRCB), \u201cLogan\u201d cuts in Philippine cinemas nationwide on March 1 from 20th<\/sup> Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wolverine\u2019s next of kin, Laura aka X-23 is finally revealed in \u201cLogan,\u201d the defining chapter in the cinematic saga of one of the greatest comic book heroes ever created from visionary writer-director James Mangold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/dafne-keen-as-laura-aka-x-23-in-LOGAN_resized.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}