Young singer Troye Sivan is becoming a big deal

Troye Sivan reckons the time he took to write the songs in his new album helped him form his own musical style. Photo: Universal Music

If Troye Sivan looks somewhat familiar to you, maybe it’s because you’ve seen him before, with claws, in an X-Men movie.

Sivan starred as a young James Howlett in X-Men Origins: Wolverine back in 2009, playing essentially a much younger version of fellow Australian Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Does he look back on that role and think, “Hmm, maybe I could replace Jackman one day?”