Hugh Jackman to Be Next JAMES BOND?: 'I'd Seriously Consider It'

Is Hugh Jackman trading in his WOLVERINE claws for a martini, shaken, not stirred? According to Time.com, the actor appeared on the Australian TV show The Project this week and revealed that he has been approaced in the past to take on the iconic role of JAMES BOND.

"At the time I was just about to do X-Men 2 and I was like, 'Ah, I don't think it's the right time,'" explained the LES MIS star. Asked if he would consider playing the role at this point in his career, he replied a promising, "I'd seriously consider it."

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Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor Hugh Jackman recently on Broadway in THE RIVER. Prior to that he starred in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011.

Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the Tony Awards Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, opposite Daniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

Additional theater: Carousel at Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London (Olivier nomination), Sunset Boulevard (MO Award, Australia's Tony Award) and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (MO Award nomination). Jackman made his first major U.S. film appearance as Wolverine in the first installment of the X-Men series, a role he reprised in the enormously successfulX2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and in The Wolverine in 2013. Jackman reunited with the X-men team for X-Men: Days of Future Past.