“How do you have an 11-year-old
character who doesn’t speak in 90 pages? How does this
happen? Who’s going to playing it? [Director James Mangold] sent me a
tape. Actually, it was just a still of an audition room somewhere. You
could just tell by the look on her face. I was like, ‘Holy s—. This is
something.‘” – Hugh Jackman on Dafne’s X-23 audition