Deadpool & Wolverine was one of many greatest motion pictures of 2024 and whereas there was loads to like in regards to the film, together with all of the unbelievable Marvel characters who appeared in it, one of many highlights of all the manufacturing got here early within the film when Deadpool danced his means by way of the opening credit to the *NSYNC track “Bye Bye Bye.”
If you happen to watched that opening sequence and thought to your self “the one factor that might make this higher is that if Wolverine was dancing too” then I’ve excellent news, Hugh Jackman has you lined. Jackman is acting at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in 2025 and lately had his first efficiency. Folks reported on Jackman doing “what might have been” by doing his personal “Bye Bye Bye” dance, but it surely turns on the market’s truly a video, and it is glorious.
We solely see a short piece of the efficiency, and it is not totally clear why Hugh Jackman determined to carry out the track with a leap rope, however actually, Hugh Jackman can do principally something and make it look good, and he actually does so right here.
Ryan Reynolds was reportedly in attendance at this efficiency, so we are able to solely guess how a lot enjoyable watching this was for him. Reynolds and Jackman have had a faux feud for years, and the concept that it has now turn into a “dance battle” is hilarious. As a reminder, you may re-watch that sequence from Deadpool 3 beneath.
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Whereas it will have been fairly out of character for Wolverine to do a dance quantity in Deadpool & Wolverine, and we hadn’t truly met his character within the movie on the level the sequence takes place within the film, it nonetheless makes me want we might have gotten this sequence as a duet. Hugh Jackman was an completed track and dance man on Broadway earlier than he turned a world famous person as Wolverine within the X-Males motion pictures. It might be cool if we might have tapped into that.
Alternatives to see Jackman on stage could also be rising over the subsequent few months and years. He has 9 extra dates this 12 months that he’ll be showing at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, however the currency-divorcing Jackman can also be seeing Sutton Foster, his co-star throughout his run on Broadway in The Music Man, and it wouldn’t be too stunning to see them discover extra alternatives to carry out collectively.
Jackman’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor dates are months aside, so it’s unclear how related every present will probably be. Maybe the individuals going to the subsequent present will get to see this full routine up shut and private. However who is aware of? If the rumors that Hugh Jackman isn’t fairly performed with Wolverine but become true, then maybe there’s nonetheless an opportunity we’ll get a Wolverine dance scene on the massive display screen. I imply, it’s not an enormous probability, however we are able to actually dream.