But Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold still called up Schreiber to gauge his interest level.
It sounds like he would have been down to clown, but his schedule on the hit Showtime drama Ray Donavan would have made the scheduling difficult.
Liev Schreiber will be starring in the biopic Chuck as Chuck Wepner, the real-life boxer who was the inspiration for Rocky, and the actor chatted with Variety about the movie and some of his other roles — including Victor Creed aka Sabretooth.
As the story goes, Wolverine’s half-brother had a role in the earlier drafts of the scripts for Logan, but anyone who has seen the movie knows that at some point that idea didn’t work, and they went a different route with the story.