Marvel Uploads 8 Hours of Wolverine Breathing for National Stress Awareness Month

Marvel has published an eight-hour video of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine breathing successful hopes of helping fans de-stress.

The lengthy project, which Marvel Entertainment has labeled a “breathing exercise,” recovered its mode to YouTube arsenic a astonishment upload earlier today. It’s remarkably unusual and arrives astir 8 months aft Deadpool & Wolverine came to theaters and astir 5 months aft it premiered connected Disney+. Of course, to nary one’s surprise, it’s already racking up the views.

The Marvel Entertainment YouTube transmission has posted an 8 hr and 36 infinitesimal video of Hugh Jackman successful his Deadpool & Wolverine suit conscionable staring astatine the camera breathing... menacingly! pic.twitter.com/Yue9479cpa

Around 40,000 superhero fans person already tuned successful to perceive Jackman growl successful their ears since Marvel uploaded the video a fewer hours ago. Most are calling the eight-hour video an April Fools’ Day gag that got near behind, but oddly enough, Marvel is really directing fans to usage it to de-stress.

“April is National Stress Awareness Month, truthful respire heavy and consciousness your adamantium bones melt away,” Marvel explains successful the Wolverine Breathing Exercise video’s description.

Every 1 of Wolverine’s gravelly breaths is backed by tense Marvel music, truthful to some, it whitethorn not beryllium the astir calming mode to walk a casual April evening, but others whitethorn find it meditative. If you’re brave capable to instrumentality astir passim the full eight-and-a-half-hour runtime, you mightiness adjacent drawback a fewer leap scares that look a batch similar Jackman is doing his champion to recreate an iconic Wolverine pose.

hugh recreating the wolverine #1 cover🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/HrLlWvS8WJ

Deadpool & Wolverine has been retired successful the chaotic for 1 twelvemonth this July, and portion it’s unclear if the duo volition instrumentality to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) immoderate clip soon, we astatine slightest cognize a small spot astir however their communicative whitethorn continue. Late past month, Marvel revealed a bully chunk of the formed acceptable to look successful its upcoming Avengers: Doomsday movie. Included successful the lineup of named chairs was nary different than Channing Tatum, who made his on-screen debut arsenic Gambit successful the 3rd Deadpool movie past year. It’s unclear if his instrumentality means we’ll besides spot Jackman and Ryan Reynolds suit up for the adjacent Avengers film, but it’s astatine slightest a bully motion that audiences whitethorn soon perceive Wolverine’s dense breathing erstwhile again.

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