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The actor revealed that he grew frustrated with his character’s progress in the X-Men franchise.
Jackman said that he feared his mutant superhero had gotten too "soft" after X-Men: The Last Stand and considered abandoning the role for future projects.
"It felt like Wolverine had got a little soft by X-Men 3 and I wanted to take it back to that bad ass quality," he is quoted as saying. "He's tough, he's gruff, he's not politically correct - he doesn't say the right things."
Jackman added that the return of his character’s "berserker rage" persuaded him to return for spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
"There has to be complexity to this character. He's very tough but there's a lot of pain, history to his life that you find out about. It's not pretty," he said.
"He's a flawed character. That's what I like about it, that's why I'm doing it for the fourth time or else I wouldn't."
X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens in UK cinemas on April 29.
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