12 Actors Who Should Play Wolverine Next

9. Jack O'Connell

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Having kicked off his career in the excellent British show Skins, Jack O'Connell has gone about cementing his status as one of the UK's brightest rising stars (even if Money Monster wasn't quite as good as he would have hoped). His true break-out came with Starred Up, a brutal portrait of modern prison corruption from behind bars.

You can almost see Wolverine's back-story in Starred Up's victim-creating: O'Connell's Eric is as much a prisoner of his own vulnerability and emotional turmoil as he is the cage that holds him. He's a monster, defined by violence and hewn for its inevitability, but he carries dark mysteries, just as Wolverine does.

O'Connell has proven himself to be particularly adept at that sort of frenetic, intense performance, and if Fox look to cast young, he would make as impressive a candidate as Iwan Rheon.

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