In the toronto airport last October, Hugh Jackman stood nervously in front of a bored, tight-lipped Customs officer, trying to explain why he should be let into the country without a work visa. "I'm an actor from Australia" was getting him nowhere. Finally, Jackman said, "I'm meeting with the director of'X-Men'." " 'X-Men'?!" The bureaucrat awoke with a jolt. "Who you gonna play?" "Wolverine?" "wolvereeeeeeen!" "He screamed and made me sign an autograph," Jackman recounts three months later, on the set of "X-Men," a live-action movie based on the best-selling comic book in history. "I said, 'It's only an audition.' He says, 'I don't care, man! I got friends with tattoos ofWolverine!'"
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