Dougray Scott missed out on playing Wolverine because Tom Cruise ‘didn’t let him do it’
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metro.co.ukX-Men’s Wolverine could have looked very different if it weren’t for Tom Cruise, who is apparently the reason the role went to Hugh Jackman instead of Dougray Scott.
Dougray, 54, revealed it was Tom who stopped him from getting the Wolverine role as he insisted he stay on Mission: Impossible 2 after filming ran over the initial schedule in 2000.
He explained: ‘Tom Cruise didn’t let me do it. We were doing Mission Impossible and he was like, “you’ve got to stay and finish the film”, and I said I will, but I’ll go and do that as well. ‘For whatever reason he said I couldn’t.
He was a very powerful guy. Other people were doing everything to make it work.’ Dougray had already been confirmed in the role of Wolverine, but had to pull out at
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