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Hugh Jackman returns as the clawed mutant who fights on the side of good in this latest installment in the X-Men franchise. And Jackman had important advice for Liev Schreiber as he prepared for his debut in the series: lift weights. Schreiber followed that advice and ate what he describes as "an army of chickens" in order to physically prepare for the role of Victor Creed/Sabretooth.

"I’m very excited about it.

I've seen some footage, and I think it's gonna be really very good," offered Liev Schreiber when asked what he's allowed to say about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. "I'm really looking forward to people seeing it."

Asked if it was fun doing a comic book-inspired film after the seriousness of Defiance, Schreiber replied, "I found it to be really intense. The character I play is incredibly brutal and feral, has blood lust unlike any other character I've ever played. Much, much more than Zus. Zus is basically a lover. This guy is a real killer."

So why was he attracted to Wolverine? Schreiber has a simple explanation: "I hope I'm not blowing anyone’s cover here, but I don't think men really mature intellectually and emotionally beyond 22. Your bodies evolve, but nothing else, really. And so why should I stop wanting to be in a comic book movie?"

And working with Hugh Jackman was also part of the appeal. "I love Hugh. I mean, Hugh is the reason I did it. We'd been friends for a long time and it's just so much fun to work with him," said Schreiber.

"You know, just to do fight scenes with Hugh was really terrific because as a dancer, he has that kind of discipline and choreography. And I always studied to be a fight choreographer, and always wanted to be a dancer too, but didn't quite have the feet for it. But we had some remarkable fight scenes together and I'm looking forward to people seeing those."

Schreiber was a fan of the X-Men comics and so he knew what he was getting himself into by taking on the part. "I was a fan of the comic books. There's this sort of Jimmy Breslin sort of – this – just the character – I just loved the character of Wolverine. I always have. That sort of deeply ironic and very urban sensibility in a superhero was something that I thought was really groundbreaking," explained Schreiber. "And the style of writing was – particularly the very sort of editorial style - I just always loved it. I think that we were able to capture some of that darkness in this movie, so I'm very proud of it."