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Eriq La Salle and Elise Neal help wrap up Wolverine’s journey in “Logan”

Stephen Iervolino

Ben Rothstein-© 2017 Marvel. TM and © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.(NEW YORK) — Bolstered by near unanimous positive reviews — and a “Certified Fresh” Rotten Tomatoes score of 94% — Logan is now in theaters. The film is, by all measures, Hugh Jackman’s last stand as the titular hero, the razor-clawed X-Men character he first played in 2000. 

The film is being called the superhero film for those who don’t like superhero movies, and the R-rated action drama is also being compared to classic Westerns like Unforgiven and Shane. It has even been dubbed No Country for Old X-Men for its tonal similarity to the Coen Brothers’ austere, Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men.

Set in the future, Logan finds Jackman and Patrick Stewart playing aged versions of their characters, Logan and Professor Charles Xavier. Their mutant primes behind them, both are in hiding near the U.S. border with Mexico when a powerful young mutant played by Dafne Keen appears; she needs their help.

Along the way, these unlikely travelers are taken in by a kind family: ER veteran Eriq La Salle and Elise Neal play a husband and wife whose family adds a needed bit of normalcy to the comic characters.

“It’s just cool to be a part of this piece that sort of wraps up the original theme: which is mutants are fighting for equality, for love, for the basic stuff that people get to take for granted,” La Salle told ABC Radio before a red carpet event in New York City.   

Elise agrees, citing a dinner scene between the characters. “I love the fact that we have this quiet moment in such a lot of chaos…It’s awesome!”

When Logan sees what he’s been missing “first-hand,” La Salle explains, “I think it starts pulling on him in certain ways, and I think it sort of helps him make decisions as to how he wants to end his journey and his legacy.” 

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ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) -- It's been a long journey for Oscar winner for Viola Davis.

After speaking with People about her struggles growing up in poverty, Davis is sharing more about her journey from "overweight" shy child to confident woman and Oscar winner.

"I was one of those people that everyone knew, but I didn’t have a lot of friends. I didn’t date or do any of that stuff. I was overweight and very, very shy," she tellsPeople in a new cover story.

"My confidence took time. It really did, to come into myself," says Davis, who finally found an outlet for expressing herself in the theater. "It took many years of getting knocked down and getting back up to finally say, 'OK, I think I’m pretty tough. I’ve got this.'"

Davis is also the first black woman to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony for acting. She earned her first Tony Award nomination for Seven Guitars, three years after graduating from the Julliard School in New York.

But it wasn't until she reached Hollywood years later that Davis become "mindful" of her appearance; as she puts it, "just wanting to look like a better me," she said.

"At first, I just wanted to try really hard to make people see that I was pretty, that I wasn’t just the drug addict from Antoine Fisher, so it was about proving something to someone," she explained.

"It wasn’t until the last year that I was like, ‘OK, I’m done with that,’" she said. "I just want to look like me, good me. I just want to be satisfied with how I look. With every year that passes, it’s another dragon."

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ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) -- It's been a long journey for Oscar winner for Viola Davis.

After speaking with People about her struggles growing up in poverty, Davis is sharing more about her journey from "overweight" shy child to confident woman and Oscar winner.

"I was one of those people that everyone knew, but I didn’t have a lot of friends. I didn’t date or do any of that stuff. I was overweight and very, very shy," she tellsPeople in a new cover story.

"My confidence took time. It really did, to come into myself," says Davis, who finally found an outlet for expressing herself in the theater. "It took many years of getting knocked down and getting back up to finally say, 'OK, I think I’m pretty tough. I’ve got this.'"

Davis is also the first black woman to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony for acting. She earned her first Tony Award nomination for Seven Guitars, three years after graduating from the Julliard School in New York.

But it wasn't until she reached Hollywood years later that Davis become "mindful" of her appearance; as she puts it, "just wanting to look like a better me," she said.

"At first, I just wanted to try really hard to make people see that I was pretty, that I wasn’t just the drug addict from Antoine Fisher, so it was about proving something to someone," she explained.

"It wasn’t until the last year that I was like, ‘OK, I’m done with that,’" she said. "I just want to look like me, good me. I just want to be satisfied with how I look. With every year that passes, it’s another dragon."

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ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) -- It's been a long journey for Oscar winner for Viola Davis.

After speaking with People about her struggles growing up in poverty, Davis is sharing more about her journey from "overweight" shy child to confident woman and Oscar winner.

"I was one of those people that everyone knew, but I didn’t have a lot of friends. I didn’t date or do any of that stuff. I was overweight and very, very shy," she tellsPeople in a new cover story.

"My confidence took time. It really did, to come into myself," says Davis, who finally found an outlet for expressing herself in the theater. "It took many years of getting knocked down and getting back up to finally say, 'OK, I think I’m pretty tough. I’ve got this.'"

Davis is also the first black woman to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony for acting. She earned her first Tony Award nomination for Seven Guitars, three years after graduating from the Julliard School in New York.

But it wasn't until she reached Hollywood years later that Davis become "mindful" of her appearance; as she puts it, "just wanting to look like a better me," she said.

"At first, I just wanted to try really hard to make people see that I was pretty, that I wasn’t just the drug addict from Antoine Fisher, so it was about proving something to someone," she explained.

"It wasn’t until the last year that I was like, ‘OK, I’m done with that,’" she said. "I just want to look like me, good me. I just want to be satisfied with how I look. With every year that passes, it’s another dragon."

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