Official Hugh Jackman Appreciation Thread. [Archive] - Page 12

narrows101

05-19-2006, 05:29 AM

http://www.moviehole.net/interviews/20060519_interview_hugh_jackman.html

Hugh Jackman hasn’t changed much since establishing himself as one of Hollywood’s hottest Australian exports. The casually attired Aussie is more than happy to have returned to the role that started it all, the often grumpy but insular Wolverine in the latest, and most likely the last, of the "X-Men" movies. Sitting back in a New York hotel room, Jackman says that he still loves the character “and when I read the script I thought we had the best of the 3. We started I think with the best script, the essential idea was fantastic it really cuts to the core of what these movies are about and tend to ask if you have the chance to change something about yourself you didn’t like, would you do it? All those sort of hurdles and things make you the person you are, I thought it was great and I love the people involved, Jackman partly attributes the success of the franchise to a real sense of identificationh forged between the audience and the films' characters. “All of us can identify with that feeling of being alienated, of being different, having things said about yourself you don’t understand.

Wolverine doesn’t know about his past, there is a lot of pain underneath and there is not a person on this planet that doesn’t mask some kind of pain which comes out in behaviour in some way but all of us have that.”

The actor even admits, surprisingly, that “as a youngster I had a bad temper,” which is hard to believe given Jackman's laid back demeanour.

“I was the youngest of 5 so I had no power, therefore all of a sudden it would come out. So I train every morning when I am doing the role and if you ever saw me in there you’d be a little frightened, thinking: that’s not Hugh cause I turn on Godsmack or Metallica and I’m screaming, yelling, swearing like there is no tomorrow and lifting weights as though I am at that breaking point. With this character I always feel he is on that point where he can snap and just go berserk as they say in the comic. So I do practice that in the morning so it has to be there somehow. Its good therapy,” Jackman adds laughingly.

While the third film has a new director at the helm, Jackman says the third film happiloy takes the saga to a whole new level. “What the first 2 did great was, establishing their world and their characters. I think people fell for the characters and could believe in them and relate, which is a tough thing when you’ve got claws coming out of hands. So I always felt that we could make it a little more emotional and push some of the relationships a little further and this being the last one, it always intended to be the last one wrapping things up.” While this may indeed be the end of the X-Men franchise, Jackman is resurrecting the character in his own spin-off movie, and the actor was more than happy to take the character on his own journey. “The Wolverine movie is a serious thing,” Jackman explains.

“We have 2 drafts now from David Benioff and he is now polishing the final draft. It’s a prequel so really as great as a go as I’ve had in these movies it is going to appear greedy. I still think that there is more to know about him, in the way that the first Mad Max did. I mean this is a movie called X Men, there are 10 characters to each so there is only so much you can do.”

Jackman is one of the busiest actors around with a plethora of films due out, from a bit role in George Miller's animated penguin movie "Happy Feet', to the lead role as a rat in Aardman's next animated feature, "Flushed Awa"y. “I couldn’t refuse that because I am a huge fan of Aardman rom the early days and with 2 kids I couldn’t refuse. But it is his starring role in "The Fountain" that is generating early buzz, a fi8lm about which the actor is genuinely enthused. “I’ve seen it and I think it is extraordinary. I think Darren is a true artist and I feel proud to have been in the movie really. It’s a huge love story essentially, Rachel [Weitz] is phenomenal in it as she always is and Darren’s work is just unforgettable so I am really thrilled in a way that the studios are recognising his work and making his movies.”

After years of struggle and waiting for success, Jackman is on a roll and the actor remains philosophical about his success. “ I am very excited about it. 5 years ago if I had to think or dream of where I’d be doing, franchising the movie of Wolverine and the character and I’ve worked with Woody Allen as well as the Aardman guys, Darren Aronovsky, and Christopher Nolan I'd never believe it. I mean I am busy because everything I am getting is turning me on so much its almost impossible to say no to these things, so it is very exciting.” Jackman is also about to revive his Tony-award winning Peter Allen on the Australian stage for a two month tour beginning in August. “I didn’t feel like it was done when I finished it here. It started by doing a performance at the Tony Awards as Peter Allen where I got Sarah Jessica Parker up on stage and that was with more than 6 or 7 thousand people and I felt like this character it even works better in a larger arena. So I went to the producers and as exhausted as I was, I was like we are not done yet, we have got to do this back in home and also Peter’s music and his character is an icon down there. I thought we’ve got to share what’s happen here in New York back at home, and I wanted to do it on a big scale.”

And when he's not working, he has a wife and 2 children to contend with. “So when I’m not a pretty boy and not working I hang out with my family and not play golf with my buddies.”

narrows101

05-19-2006, 03:28 PM

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14632

In The Future with Halle and Hugh
Source: Edward Douglas

When people go to see the latest (and presumably final) installment of Marvel's mutant franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand, they won't be able to avoid Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry, who take front and center amidst an expanding cast of new mutants. Both actors have had pretty significant careers since the first X-Men in 2000, and they continue to be busy with movies they've just finished which come out in the next few months.

In the last two years, Jackman has been working with many reputable directors from Darren Aronofsky to Christopher Nolan and even Woody Allen. The Australian actor told ComingSoon.net about the character he plays in Woody Allen's upcoming romantic comedy Scoop, due out in July. "I play a modern day aristocrat who they have an anonymous tip on is a serial killer. I'm very much a Hello magazine bachelor-slash-aspiring politician, so I'm the opposite of a serial killer."

"Woody is incredibly personable, fun and easy to work with; he's very relaxed," Jackman said when asked for his Woody Allen anecdote. "We were in this stately house and he'd set up a shot in 10 minutes with 15 minutes to light it. After those 10 minutes you'd hear this noise and think, 'Where's that music coming from?' and he'd be out there playing his clarinet. He'd set up the shop, play his clarinet and then he'd come back and we'd shoot."

Even though Jackman shot Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain over a year ago, he still hasn't seen the finished movie yet. "[Darren] doesn't want me to see it without an audience, yet he had a screening the other night and he said, 'I don't want you to change the atmosphere.' So Darren is very protective but an extraordinary director."

It will probably come out around the same time as The Prestige, directed by Batman Begins' Christopher Nolan, which is also based on a graphic novel. "I think it's a very complete movie, but it's style is much smaller and more Mementoish than X-men or Batman," Jackman revealed when asked about similarities withother comic based movies.

Jackman's plans aren't all cinematic, as he will be spending the summer reviving his hit Broadway musical "The Boy From Oz" in his native land. "I'm doing an arena version of that with a cast of 160. We'll be doing it in an arena for 10,000 people, so I'm gonna have my rock star season." He would like to come back to Broadway and host the Tonys again, too, but he hasn't found the right project, and this year's Tony Awards ceremony coincides with his father's 70th birthday back in Australia.

RonStoppablefan

05-19-2006, 03:50 PM

Whoa,after reading all those interview's he reaily seem's like a awsome and nice guy he reaily is talented(good actor and ive seen some clip's of his dancing and singing) and as far as his as Logan/Wolverine. He's Pefect , remembering all the x-men comic's and woulverie ncomcis and the cartoon's and then book's i saw yesderday at a book store and today rewatched X1 and X2 i think he reaily does Logan justice and im tired of peopel bashing his movie character and him having lot's of screentime, i mean he is a classic hero and with good storyline's for him and hugh i nthe movie's has the hair, the sideburns and beard, the way he walk's, act's with other character's, his line's, his grunt's,way he take's out his claw's,facial look on his face, he may be tall but (in some comic's he seem's very tall) he's definatly Logan and cant wait for the spinoff and if there ever a x4 i hope he get's offerd lot's of money to repraise his role as woulverine

I agree with you, I don't understand how any one bashes the guy. He's a good guy at heart. And yah I can't wait for the Wolverine spin off. Thanks for the links narrows101.

Deep Thinkin'!

05-19-2006, 03:55 PM

I honestly think Hugh is the perfect person to play Wolverine. The only thing that seems off is how tall he is, but that's something you can deal with. One thing I noticed is that how his eyebrows raise. If you watch closely in the movies you can see how his eyebrows raise, something about that is just very wolverine like.....

RonStoppablefan

05-19-2006, 04:01 PM

_BB_

05-19-2006, 04:25 PM

I love this image, its just CLASSIC wolverine :up: Damn ratner, hugh, i love you both! :D

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1907/classicwolverine9hb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

from the xverse

RonStoppablefan

05-19-2006, 05:59 PM

That is one awesome image of Wolverine AKA Hugh Jackman. I love it..

Mar420x

05-19-2006, 07:49 PM

http://www.fhmus.com/images/cms/tpl_1/tpl_1_img_1/57.jpghttp://www.fhmus.com/images/cms/tpl_1/tpl_1_img_2/57.jpgYou may know him as the guy who straps on the claws for his role as Wolverine in the wildly popular X-Men movies. Now, Hugh Jackman tells FHM what it's really like to be one of the most popular super heroes ever! http://www.fhmus.com/images/cms/tpl_2/tpl_2_txt_1/86.gifWho’s the craziest Wolverine fan you’ve ever encountered?
The most intense guy was a man named Vinnie. He works in a restaurant owned by Robert De Niro called Bubby’s in Tribeca, New York. It’s a pretty well known hideout for people in the movies, so you don’t expect much attention when you go there. But when I went, I saw this weird thing in the corner of my eye. This guy kept bobbing up, and then every time I turned around he’d duck underneath a table. I started getting nervy about it so I asked the waiter what was going on…

A fruitcake with a gun was about to kill you?
Not quite. He said, “Oh that’s our manager Vinnie, he’s a bit obsessed with Wolverine, so he’s a little nervous about you dining here.” I told him to send this “Vinnie” over. So, Vinnie comes to our table and the poor guy is sweating and shaking like you wouldn’t believe. I try and calm him down, and say, “Soooo, you like Wolverine, hey?…” He looks at me, doesn’t say a word, takes his shirt off in the middle of his restaurant and turns around…

Then he pulls out the gun?
No! No guns! He turns around and has this full-color tattoo of Wolverine covering his entire back. I just thought it was unbelievable, which was a mistake. My enthusiasm made him go hyper. For about 12 minutes I had to pretend to be Wolverine for him, as he ran around the restaurant, climbing on tables, doing his best Wolverine impression with his shirt off. It was a pretty intense meal.

Has that been your strangest Hollywood moment?
Well, no… I did do a film called The Fountain where I had to make out with Rachel Weisz. That wouldn’t normally be that weird, but the film was being directed by her fiancé so it was just all a bit wrong, you know…

What happened?
Oh God. Well, in the script it said we just make out for a bit, and then leave it at that because her character was supposed to be sick. So Rachel Weisz is in the bath utterly naked, and she pulls me in fully clothed to get it on. So she was naked, I was wet, and we start really going for it for the cameras. It’s getting passionate, we’d gone as far as the script had told us to, but nobody’s calling, “Cut!” Her fiancé is holding a camera five feet away from me egging me on to go further with his naked girlfriend…

Rachel Weisz!
Exactly. So she starts pulling off my top and starts grabbing towards, you know… there. Then I hear this voice go, “Rip off his pants!” At this point I get a bit freaked out, her director/fiancé calls cut and shouts at Rachel, “Why didn’t you take his pants off?” She goes, “I don’t know… I felt a bit shy.” I was like, “You’re kind of kinky, aren’t you mate?” He didn’t laugh too much at that, so I figured it best not to say anything else. At any moment, I was thinking he’s either going to hit me or go, “Keep doing it to her, man.”

And weren’t you also involved in Halle Berry’s infamous topless scene in Swordfish…
Yes, yes, I was. Actually, there’s a good story about that day. My wife had flown back from Australia and we were meant to have finished all the nude scenes. I thought we were done—and she was coming to the set. Then the director comes up to me and says we’ve got to re-do it all because there was “a negative” problem. So the point when I had to get my blowjob under the table is the point my wife walks onto the set!

Did she flip out?
Well no, she’s done 25 movies, so she knows the nature of the beast. And you know, I’ve still been naked in showers with more guys than beautiful women. She just bowled straight up to the actress under my table and said, “I believe you just gave my husband a blowjob!” The poor girl went to pieces, so she told her, “Oh relax, you’re getting paid to give him head… enjoy it.”

How nice. Back to X-Men for a minute. Have you ever forgotten that you’re made up as Wolverine and scared yourself in a mirror? Absolutely, and it scares you every time. Sometimes you’ll start shooting at eight in the morning and finish at nine the following morning, so you just kind of forget that you’re all dolled up and just do regular things dressed as Wolverine while you wait for your scene.

Have you ever gone out in your Wolverine costume?
The funniest time I went out on the street as Wolverine was on Halloween. I went trick-or-treating in the full outfit. My little kid was dressed as Wolverine, too, and only one person noticed us. Nobody gave a ****—they were like, “Oh, we’ve seen 18 Wolverines already tonight. Make a bit more effort with the outfit, loser.”

We hear after X-Men: The Last Stand you’re going solo to do a film just about Wolverine…
Well, I just love the character and I thought there was enough there to warrant a film on its own. I think he’s a hugely popular, bread and butter Hollywood character. I kind of see him as a Dirty Harry or a Mad Max—that kind of thing.

X-Men: The Last Stand hits theaters May 26

DarknessOfDeath

05-19-2006, 07:53 PM

.... Blowjobs? ...eeek. :( Atleast he didn't mention Famke... oi. :p

narrows101

05-19-2006, 07:57 PM

.... Blowjobs? ...eeek. :( Atleast he didn't mention Famke... oi. :p
He's talking about the scene in Swordfish when his wife was on the set and the actress got so embarrassed and apologized profusely and that's when Deb made her "you're getting paid for it, enjoy it" remark.

DarknessOfDeath

05-19-2006, 08:11 PM

I know ... my comment about Famke was just a tease...

Deep Thinkin'!

05-19-2006, 08:28 PM

whoa, he's had some pretty intense/embarassing moments. I bet he was really feeling awkward when he was making out with that girl and her boyfriend was right there watching it all.

narrows101

05-19-2006, 08:57 PM

He did another movie in Australia when he had a love scene (a *real* love scene if you get my drift) and the girl was a friend of his wife!

Wolvietat

05-19-2006, 09:42 PM

"...he reaily seem's like a awsome and nice guy..." He truly is. Very friendly and easy to talk to, I never felt like he was in a hurry.

LEX

05-19-2006, 09:44 PM

Hey, Ver! http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/5636/actionsmiley0697xm.gif (http://imageshack.us)

You would know, of course, wouldn't ya? You met Hugh like what, 11 times already? :eek:

*Lex is jealous*

Deep Thinkin'!

05-19-2006, 09:47 PM

He did another movie in Australia when he had a love scene (a *real* love scene if you get my drift) and the girl was a friend of his wife!

oh burn! I dunno how people survive being married to an actor/actress with all the love scenes....... omg.....

LEX

05-19-2006, 09:52 PM

I couldn't believe it my eyes when that scene came on while I was watching Swordfish. Hugh sat down and Travolta's men just handled him while the girl was opening the zipper and gave him a blowjob -- my mom was working right behind me. Thought the movie was going to be just violent. :p :eek:

Hugh pulled that scene off. :D

DarknessOfDeath

05-19-2006, 10:26 PM

LEX

05-19-2006, 10:43 PM

... why is this turning me on? :confused: :o
B/c you cannot resist hormones!...

danoyse

05-19-2006, 10:44 PM

You know, there is a high-definition "Swordfish" DVD coming out soon... :)

DarknessOfDeath

05-19-2006, 10:45 PM

... lol... :o

eXperiment

05-19-2006, 10:45 PM

I'll get it.

Wolvietat

05-19-2006, 10:48 PM

danoyse

05-19-2006, 10:51 PM

Hugh wished me a happy birthday two years ago. :)

LEX

05-19-2006, 10:55 PM

12 times. :wolverine Bub!

*waves back* Hey you! ;)
*falls off chair*

Of course, 12 times. How could I forget that? :D :up:

Hugh wished me a happy birthday two years ago.:)
Lucky you! http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5582/1cry4gh.gif

Pfft. Here I am -- an Australian that has NEVER met Hugh, who's ALSO another Aussie. Argh! I need to buy tickets for Boy from Oz pronto. He's coming to perform the musical in this coming months, I think. August, September...

Wolvietat

05-19-2006, 11:01 PM

Hugh wished me a happy birthday two years ago. :)
Verah cool :D

danoyse

05-19-2006, 11:04 PM

*Lucky you! http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5582/1cry4gh.gif

Pfft. Here I am -- an Australian that has NEVER met Hugh, who's ALSO another Aussie. Argh! I need to buy tickets for Boy from Oz pronto. He's coming to perform the musical in this coming months, I think. August, September...

See, now's your chance!

I've actually never met him either...my friend and I were too shy to do the whole stagedoor thing when we saw The Boy From Oz with my mom. But a few months later, unbeknownst to me, my folks saw it. It was a few weeks before my birthday--so my mom made this b'day card on her computer, and after the show they waited at the stage door and asked him if he could sign it.

He not only signed it, he asked her what my name was and wrote "Jenny, Happy B'day" in the card. How ridiculously nice was that??

They sprang that card on me a week later at a surprise party. Needless to say, it's the coolest b'day present I've ever gotten. :)

And I still can't believe they did that!

LEX

05-19-2006, 11:11 PM

He not only signed it, he asked her what my name was and wrote "Jenny, Happy B'day" in the card. How ridiculously nice was that??
Oh, man. He sounds like an absolute down-to-earth guy. I MUST meet him pronto!

danoyse

05-19-2006, 11:13 PM

Oh, man. He sounds like an absolute down-to-earth guy. I MUST meet him pronto!

My folks still think he's awesome after all that. :)

Deep Thinkin'!

05-19-2006, 11:21 PM

LEX

05-19-2006, 11:23 PM

raziel1919

05-20-2006, 12:08 AM

question,

raziel1919

05-20-2006, 12:10 AM

oops! question, in the forest scene. the guy throwing daggers at logan, is that marrow?? because they look like bone daggers.:confused: :wolverine

Deep Thinkin'!

05-20-2006, 12:40 AM

oops! question, in the forest scene. the guy throwing daggers at logan, is that marrow?? because they look like bone daggers.:confused: :wolverine

I'm pretty sure thats spike. They said spike was in the movie, and I'm pretty sure that's him.

http://mako-chan7.tripod.com/xmen/spyke.jpg looks something like this in x-evolution, but that show is VERY different from the movies, so it doesn't really count.... cause in ths x-men evolution jean and scott are in high school.

narrows101

05-20-2006, 07:46 AM

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narrows101

05-20-2006, 08:02 AM

Fun anecdotes from Hugh in this.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KOdUij5kIs8&search=X-Men%203 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=KOdUij5kIs8&search=X-Men%203)

narrows101

05-20-2006, 10:31 AM

Lex, this is for you - check out the pic of the kid auditioning.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/itll-take-21-million-before-the-producers-from-oz-can-go-to-rio/2006/05/20/1147545567921.html

It'll take $21 million before the producers from Oz can go to Rio
By Christine Sams
May 21, 2006

IT will be the most expensive musical staged in Australia, but the producers of the The Boy From Oz believe Hugh Jackman is worth every cent.

The "Hugh factor" has created such a buzz around the musical's short-run season in August, ticket sales have gone through the roof. But even though coachloads of fans are coming from every corner of NSW, the Las Vegas-style extravaganza needs to top $21 million to break even.
"I know for sure there hasn't been any musical that would have spent $10 million on the production, and that's not the touring cost," show producer Ben Gannon said. "The touring costs are $11 million, so it's $21 million all up. You need to sell a lot of tickets."

It's the first time Gannon has revealed the massive budget behind the show, which will have a short run because of Jackman's Hollywood commitments.

Jackman is rumoured to be receiving $250,000 per performance, and although producers are reluctant to reveal his payment, Gannon believes he is worth it.

"This guy is truly extraordinary and that's in any terms," Gannon said.
"We're also going to deliver a production that is not like anything that's been done here before. I think it's closer to the sort of big show you might see in Vegas. It's on a very big scale."

Auditions were held in Sydney yesterday for one of the key cast members in the extravaganza, a young boy aged between eight and 12, to play the role of Peter Allen as a child.

While details of Allen's career drew a blank with some of the boys auditioning, others were inspired by his legendary showbiz journey.
"He was a young boy from a country town and he just wanted more - he wanted his name in lights," said Matthew Jenson, 12, from Kellyville. "That's what I want, too."

Jenson, who attends year 7 at William Clark College and has had extensive training in singing and dancing, said performing was his greatest passion. He was at the front of the pack enthusiastically belting out the opening lines to Name In Lights, which seemed apt inside the Sydney Entertainment Centre auditioning room: "I'll dance and I'll sing, I'll do anything . . . just to get my name in lights".

Big-budget conscious Connor Carroll, 10, from Roselands, said: "If I get in, I get lots of money."

Some hopefuls showed flashes of Peter Allen's flair during auditions. Matthew Thompson, 11, brought along his own maracas and a whistle to attract the attention of producers, and he kicked the pianist out of her seat to play a tune.

Two boys will be chosen for the Little Peter role and will travel across Australia to take part in every performance alongside Jackman. Jackman, who has spent the past couple of days at the Cannes film festival, is due back for rehearsals in July.

danoyse

05-20-2006, 10:45 AM

Omg, that kid is too cute!

Wolvietat

05-20-2006, 10:56 AM

omg, ok, i'm jealous now..... I can't believe you all have met Hugh Jackman! **screams** Just makes me frustrated..... I don't think I should see him anyway, I'd probably scream my brains out...... and that would so not be cool.... so I guess I'll just stay away from movie stars and meeting them in real life so I don't freak them out or anything....... **sighs** god, i'm such a dork!
That's what I thought too....but I didn't.
My daughter couldn't look at him/stop giggling the first time she met him, and Hugh kept trying to get her to talk to him...it was funny. I still tease her about it :p

Lex - even if you don't get to see the show, you could still go to the stagedoor ;)

Iceman

05-20-2006, 11:02 AM

I posted this in another thread but thoughht you Logan fans might be interested:

Halle & Hugh were interviewed today on UK TV. They played a game where they had to name a superhero from their secret identity. Halle didn't know who Norman Osborn or Green Goblin was. She only got that Peter Parker is Spiderman after a ton of hints.

I can't remember if her or Hugh got Bruce Wayne as Batman. At least Hugh got Ben Grimm and Bruce Banner correct. Phew

danoyse

05-20-2006, 11:04 AM

LOL...is the video up somewhere??

Iceman

05-20-2006, 11:08 AM

LOL...is the video up somewhere??

Sorry I just caught it by luck so didn't get a chance to tape it. I know some of the other Brits watched it but not sure if anyone recorded.

CapBeerCino

05-20-2006, 11:10 AM

*falls off chair*

Of course, 12 times. How could I forget that? :D :up:

Lucky you! http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5582/1cry4gh.gif

Pfft. Here I am -- an Australian that has NEVER met Hugh, who's ALSO another Aussie. Argh! I need to buy tickets for Boy from Oz pronto. He's coming to perform the musical in this coming months, I think. August, September...

Any tickets left?

LEX

05-20-2006, 11:27 AM

@narrows101; Cute kid.

(LIEKOMG, I was totally quoting Lex Luthor!...)

Thanks for the article. I wonder how much money the chosen kids will get for playing in the musical...

@Wolvietat; Hoza! :up: Thanks for the tip!

@CapBeerCino; No idea. I'm out of money at the moment...!

CrypticOne

05-20-2006, 03:36 PM

Can someone tell me if Wolvie fights Juggarnaut in this film?

Wolvie kicks a**!!!

Deep Thinkin'!

05-20-2006, 03:38 PM

Can someone tell me if Wolvie fights Juggarnaut in this film?

Wolvie kicks a**!!!

I think he does..... I'm not too sure though.

danoyse

05-20-2006, 03:38 PM

There's a clip in one of the TV spots where Juggs tosses Wolverine through a ceiling (and he lands through the ceiling in the next room).

So I would assume yes. :up:

Wolvietat

05-20-2006, 03:45 PM

Most definitely.

CrypticOne

05-20-2006, 04:06 PM

There's a clip in one of the TV spots where Juggs tosses Wolverine through a ceiling (and he lands through the ceiling in the next room).

So I would assume yes. :up:

Thank you!!!

narrows101

05-20-2006, 05:45 PM

For the record - Hugh is close to his mother now - she went to Boy from Oz a lot, was in the audience in Inside the Actor's Studio when he was there, and has been on the X-Men set.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2189764,00.html

Mum's desertion drove X-Men star to succeed
John Harlow and Flora Bagenal

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/images/trans.gifTHE Hollywood action man, Hugh Jackman, best known as Wolverine in the X-Men films, has revealed the “inner demons” that have driven him since his British mother abandoned him as a child in Australia.

The 37-year-old actor has previously been reluctant to spell out why his mother vanished from their home in Sydney when he was eight.

NI_MPU('middle');But now that he has two adopted children of his own, the £8m-a-film actor says he finds it easier to talk about his tangled relationship with his mother Grace, who lives in East Anglia.

Last week Jackman said he wondered whether coming from a broken home had fuelled his drive to succeed in Hollywood. If so, then he is far from alone.

An analysis due to be published by the American Psychological Association suggests that about 75 of the industry’s 100 best-paid actors saw their parents split when they were young.

They include Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and Jack Nicholson, who was raised by his mother posing as his older sister. Johnny Depp said his parents’ divorce had forced him to find refuge “hiding in other people’s lives”.

Jackman’s mother and his father Christopher emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. His father became a successful accountant but, for his mother, bringing up five children proved too much.

One day she vanished, reappearing later in England. Her two daughters Zoe and Sonia joined her, but sons Ian, Ralph and “baby” Hugh stayed with their father.

“My mother was not well. She was probably suffering from undiagnosed postpartum (postnatal) depression after she gave birth to me — so bad that for my first 18 months I was brought up by my godparents,” he said.
“I always hoped she would come back, but I never blamed her for anything that went wrong. At the time I was miserable and angry, and my brothers and I used to fight all the time.

“My father tried his best, but he was very stretched raising three boys and he worked long hours so we were often left to fend for ourselves.”
He said he first channelled his anger into sports at the Knox grammar school, where he played rugby. If he made a tackle he would go into a “little white rage”.

Jackman turned to acting in his twenties. He turned down a role in the Australian soap Neighbours but in 1998 won plaudits as Curly in the National Theatre’s revival of Oklahoma! in London. A year later he was offered the role of Wolverine.

A third chapter in the X-Men series, The Last Stand, is released this week. Today Jackman keeps an eye on his ageing mother’s health with a flat in London. “I still identify with her restless spirit of independence, but I think I enjoy being married more than she ever did.”

narrows101

05-20-2006, 06:38 PM

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=102474

Hugh Jackman plays down sexy
Sunday May 21 09:17 AEST

Hugh Jackman has been voted one of Hollywood's hottest leading men many times.

But ask him about being sexy and he's quick to dismiss the notion.

"As an actor, I don't know how you play sexy," Jackman said at the Cannes International Film Festival where his latest film, X-Men: The Last Stand, is screening out of competition.

"I don't know how to do it (sexy). So it is no conscious choice on my behalf to do that."

Jackman's face has been on the cover of almost every magazine in Cannes this week, both as his X-Men character, Wolverine, and as himself.

He's also on a number of billboards and bus stop posters. But he plays that attention down.

"I see those posters and I think they're great," he said.

"I look at that and I see the character - I don't see me."

X-Men: The Last Stand also stars Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden and Kelsey Grammar.

It's the third X-Men film, continuing the saga of the well-known Marvel comic super-powered characters such as Wolverine, Storm, Magneto, Xavier and Rogue.

The first two X-Men films were directed by Bryan Singer, with the latest instalment helmed by Brett Ratner.

Early reviews of the film, which opens in Australia on Thursday, have described the Hollywood flick as "sexier" than the previous movies.

One scene sees Jackman in a love scene with Famke Janssen, who plays Jean Grey.

"To be honest, it is a bit weird making out with someone you do know well," he said when asked about the scene.

"When you just meet someone and you hop in the sack, it is kind of weird, but that is somehow a little easier than when you do know someone."

Jackman is in Cannes with his actor wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, who co-stars in Directors Fortnight film Jindabyne.

After promotional duties for X-Men, Jackman will return to Australia, ready to begin rehearsals for the national tour of his Broadway hit The Boy From Oz.

He's got several films slated for the coming year, including The Fountain, which will screen at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Also coming up for the actor is animated flick Flushed Away, Woody Allen's Scoop and Disney film If You Could See Me Now.

Jackman's also working on a Wolverine spin-off and ruled out any more X-Men films.

"I think it is the end of X-Men because I have heard from people fairly high up - I am not saying it is as high as Rupert Murdoch but pretty close to it - kind of say this is the end," he said.

"It is called The Last Stand so there is every intention that this is the end of the trilogy. Of course if you watch to the end of the credits, there are a few teasers there."

The Cannes Film Festival runs until May 28.

YAVANNA

05-20-2006, 08:48 PM

That's what I thought too....but I didn't.
My daughter couldn't look at him/stop giggling the first time she met him, and Hugh kept trying to get her to talk to him...it was funny. I still tease her about it :p

Lex - even if you don't get to see the show, you could still go to the stagedoor ;)

giggling... i think that would be my problem if i ever get to met him; just wish he could bring Oz to london! And of course, the show should be seen but it is true that the stagedoor it's a magical place, well and stage singers are easier to talk to, all the opera singers i've met are very down to heart and i've met quite famous ones...

Deep Thinkin'!

05-20-2006, 09:11 PM

yeah, I'd probably turn beat red and to non-stop giggling. So I better keep away from the movie stars, or i'll make a complete dork out of myself...... I'll just watch from afar.......

YAVANNA

05-20-2006, 09:25 PM

no,no, thats the good with hugh! when he is on stage he is not an ACTOR/STAR, is a performer, a stage singer those you can talk to;)

narrows101

05-21-2006, 07:51 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/419235p-354034c.html

The joys of 'X'
BY JOHN CLARK
Hugh Jackman

Jackman loves playing Wolverine so much he wants to do a film just about him.

"He's a great character, like Mad Max or Dirty Harry," says the Australian screen and stage star. "As good a go as I've had in the 'X-Men' movies, there's still a movie to be made about this one character. He knows nothing about his past, not a lot goes right for him. He's a pretty badass dude."

In addition to the attitude, Wolverine sports retractable "adamantium" claws and the ability to heal himself. These powers go only so far in the new film, though, as the pain inflicted on him by his secret love Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) happens inside.

Maybe Jackman likes Wolverine so much because he's so unlike him: In real life, Jackman has an easy, open manner, which has carried him through such fizzy fare as "Kate & Leopold" and earned him a Tony Award for Broadway's "The Boy From Oz."

Also unlike Wolverine, Jackman likes cities - or at least New York. He and his wife have been looking for three years for an apartment to buy for when they're not in his native Sydney. One reason it has taken so long is that they've revised how much they can spend because of the money he made on "X-Men: The Last Stand." But he says Wolverine's extra scratch will add only a balcony or another bathroom.
"It doesn't get you a lot in this town," Jackman jokes.

narrows101

05-21-2006, 07:55 AM

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/ENT01/605210615/1035/RSS04

The article is way too long to post, but I thought this paragraph was good - sort of on the line witih Rogue that she can't touch anyone I think:

>>"I'm a father," says Jackman, "and as a parent, you worry about everything. What if your kid was born deaf? There's an operation now that can help some deaf children regain hearing. If my kid was deaf, I think I'd do it in a minute if it were safe. But there are deaf people, and deaf parents, who don't believe there is a real reason to have this operation. They believe their deafness is part of what makes them who they are. Why shouldn't others accept that and accommodate that?"

narrows101

05-21-2006, 07:58 AM

Another long article - and Supernanny!

http://www.suntimes.com/output/pearlman/sho-sunday-xmen21.html

>>In his spare time, Jackman is at home acting very normal.

"My wife and I sit around and watch 'Supernanny,' " says the screen tough guy. "I'm not kidding. She's so good. She taught us how to get our kids to go to sleep.

"You put the child in his cot, sit next to the cot and you don't look at the child. You're boring. That's what Supernanny says to do," Jackman marvels. "Don't look at your child and every two minutes you move a little closer to the door.

"The child might be pissed off, but there is no fear," he says. "I did this and within three nights my daughter was sleeping and waking up happy. But my son never got it right because we didn't have Supernanny back then and took everyone else's bad advice."

And what would Supernanny say about jettisoning your son through trees with you on the set of an "X-Men" films?
"Aw, this is the stuff you just don't tell Supernanny," Jackman says. "I didn't even want to tell my wife!"

narrows101

05-21-2006, 10:33 AM

Good for Hugh and the Aussies!!

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19209203-5001025,00.html

Hugh's in on Aussie film action

May 22, 2006

HUGH Jackman is to pump millions into the local film industry by setting up a division of his company Seed Productions in Sydney.

The Aussie actor, one of our biggest international names in the Aussiewood stable, is out to "build a more permanent bridge between Australia and Hollywood".

Jackman has revealed he will set up a division of Seed at the Moore Park Entertainment Quarter, formerly Fox Studios, in Sydney.

Its task will be to greenlight Australian movies that will be funded and distributed by Fox in the US in the same way Buena Vista International has brought British projects to its US parent company, Disney.

"We've just convinced Fox to go with this, greenlighting movies in Australia to the tune of $10 million with Australian writers and cast," Jackman said.
"This initiative is a recognition of Australian talent and I want to make that more formal and make two or three films a year and help them get funded and distributed."

Jackman and his assistant turned business partner John Palermo already have a "first look" deal with Twentieth Century Fox in the US through Seed Productions.

They are likely to make the first X-Men spin-off, featuring Jackman's character Wolverine, the fighting machine with retractable claws and remarkable healing powers, next year.

"We're developing a number of things," Jackman said.
"We want to make some movie musicals, we want to make lots of different kinds of movies, and one of them is Wolverine."

narrows101

05-21-2006, 02:04 PM

danoyse

05-21-2006, 02:54 PM

Well, I wish I was in France right now... :)

Nice pictures!

YAVANNA

05-21-2006, 03:40 PM

I'm not going to France but i am trevelling too, i am not going to be around here from this monday until next monday, professional travel not running from the forum!! so when i get back i want you all to be here to talk the film!!!!Love

Anthony05

05-21-2006, 05:58 PM

Don't know if this was posted yet....

Hugh Jackman: Wolverine saved my career

Hugh Jackman says playing Wolverine saved his career.
The 'X Men: The Last Stand' star admits if he hadn't secured the role of the metal-framed mutant, his life would be very different.
He confessed: "I love this character and I'm proud of that role and it is without doubt the foundation of my career. Many doors opened for me as a result of paying him.

"I love playing him so much that I want to do another movie. Another journalist said to me 'But aren't you worried about being typecast?' And I never think of it like that. I just love playing this character and I love playing him. I think he is a great screen hero."

Jackman also says he can see why fans of the franchise love his character.
He said: "I watched those movies and think, 'He's a cool guy!', but when I do it's a little bit out of body because I go, 'That is so not me.'
"It is, obviously, but sometimes I can't remember how I did it. But it's so much fun to play and I love the cast I'm working with."

Deep Thinkin'!

05-21-2006, 11:19 PM

Thud.....

Australian actor Hugh Jackman poses following interviews for his new film 'X-Men: The Last Stand,' at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/Cannescapt.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/Sexycapt.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/capt.jpg

Whoa, I like those pics. In France you say? Hmm....
If you notice in the first picture you can see his eyebrow raising above his glasses. THAT my friends is the Wolverine eyebrow. You know, the dangerous stare. If you notice closely in the movies you see him raise his eyebrows. To me, that's one of the biggest things that make Wolverine different from the rest.

LEX

05-21-2006, 11:21 PM

Deep Thinkin'!

05-21-2006, 11:52 PM

Damn Huge is looking mighty fine! :up:

hell yeah!

**clicks and saves***

**sighs dreamily**

see, this is why I shouldn't meet him!

LEX

05-22-2006, 12:09 AM

hell yeah!

**clicks and saves***

**sighs dreamily**

see, this is why I shouldn't meet him!
You'd squeeze the life outta him, no? :D :p

narrows101

05-22-2006, 02:07 PM

There are TONS of great new pictures from Cannes in the photo thread (that's where I've been posting them all). Here's a new interview:

http://www.movieweb.com/news/75/12775.php

INTERVIEW: Hugh Jackman Cuts It Up In X-Men: The Last Stand

Hugh Jackman is that rare movie star/leading man who is able to carry a movie without it necessarily being a Hugh Jackman film. Witness his roles in such films as Swordfish and Kate & Leopold. Both of these were high profile, big budget endeavors, yet they were never seen has "Hugh Jackman" vehicles. It is however his role as the iconic Wolverine in the X-Men series that has seemingly garnered him the most attention.

During a recent interview for the latest installment in the franchise X-Men: The Last Stand, Jackman discussed playing Wolverine, spinning off that character into it's own film and his work on Darren Aronofsky's highly anticipated The Fountain.

Would Wolverine's power be your ultimate X-Men power?

Hugh Jackman: No, I don't think the claws would be my ultimate power. Really, every time you used it you're up for life imprisonment. Which one would I like? The walking through walls is kind of cool but really... the telepathy. Telepathy is very, very handy. It would cut down the dating process, early on in life. You could be in and out of a bar in like five minutes. Check it out, there we are, what are my options? Lets go.

Can you talk about doing your own stunts in this film? And your training?

Hugh Jackman: I train everyday so I have to get in shape for that. I start training about four months before the film starts. Stuntwise, we rehearse, things like jumping off the tree and things like that take quite a long time. Other things it doesn't take a lot of time, it just takes more balls than anything. It's better not to rehearse it. Generally, my rule of thumb is, I have a stuntman, actually there's two because there's two units, and I say, "You do it first." If they don't kill themselves and it doesn't look that hard, then I just get in there and do it. It's kind of tough because one of my stuntmen is my brother-in-law and on Van Helsing he broke his leg. So it's a pretty tense family situation.

How is your preparation different for an action film?

Hugh Jackman: No different, for me. Actingwise, no different. I look at the script in the same way and I think why X-Men has been successful is that it is a character driven piece. I think beyond the amazing visuals and the great special FX, it's about these ten or so characters. This film is, I think, by far the most emotional. A lot happens in it and in a way, for an actor, it's a lot tougher to get that eventually across to an audience when there is so much going on. You know, you've got Elvis chops on, and Elvis hair and claws coming out of your hands and you've still gotta make people believe and slightly relate to that character. I'm not saying I should be up for an Academy Award... it's exactly the same for me.

What was it like working with Brett Ratner?

Hugh Jackman: Oh, Brett was great. He's, I love Brett. He's the most fun guy. You can see his personality in the film. He loves the epic scale but he's also a very emotional guy. He's not as cerebral as Bryan, he's more instinctive and incredibly passionate. He loves what he does, like I've never seen anybody love what they do. In any job, in any field. I think that comes across. He's unflappable. It's the toughest kind of thing for a director to pull off and to not ever have a tantrum, and to not ever really have a low moment. There's a couple of moments where fell asleep in the chair at 4 am and the entire set left, and we had him on video sort of waking up. He's just sort of looking around and this huge set piece was empty... and he went straight back to sleep, anyway.

But apart from that, generally he was always up and I thought he brought a lot to the film. I thought he was smart to not change what was working. He didn't try and reinvent the wheel. Yet, I thought he made it his own.

What do you think about the idea in the film that these are powers that people might want that are being "cured"?

Hugh Jackman: Well, everything in life is a double-edged sword. Having power is a double-edged sword. If you're the leader of the free world, as President, there's gonna be moments where you wish you were a garbage man. You know what I mean? Every person's dream can become their nightmare. So even though the X-Men have powers that seem so cool... every one of them, because of their power, is alienated, separated and unhappy with it. Look at Rouge's character. She's arguably one of the most powerful and yet there's a human being that can't touch people. Can never have children, can never make love, can never kiss. It's a pretty horrible kind of prospects.

I think X-Men really connects with people, because there's not a person on the planet who doesn't feel a little different. Who wouldn't like to change something in their life. And if there was a pill you could take, which is really what this story is a metaphor for, if there was something you could take would you just get rid of it like that? When we were filming X-Men: The Last Stand, there were arguments on set, for example, about the character of Rogue. Should Rogue take the cure or not? And literally, we'd be in standup arguments. And it's split and I am sure the audience is gonna be split. Particularly, that ending is quite shocking. I think that's what makes X-Men a little different.

Is Wolverine going to happen?

Hugh Jackman: I hope so. I hope we can do a spinoff of Wolverine. I'm championing it. We have David Benioff, who's an amazing writer, who's just written the second draft. It's never been my intention that if we did a spinoff that it would appear to be X-Men 4. I always thought we had an opportunity to really flesh out this character. I felt lucky in getting one of the most complex and amazing characters in, I think, comic book history. It's well loved and for a reason. It's got a lot of depth and a lot of mystery to it. I see it as kind of a Mad Max. I think we're gonna make the movie. I'm sure we're going to make the movie.

What was it like working with Halle Berry?

Hugh Jackman: It's my fourth movie working with Halle? I never have any complaints about working with Halle Berry. In fact, it's a contractual stipulation that at least, every two years, I work with her. She doesn't know that but we have an arrangement. Her agent and me.

What comic books did you find yourself most drawn to as a kid?

Hugh Jackman: I wasn't a big reader of comics or comic books. I was a big fan of cartoons. The X-Men cartoon didn't even come out in Australia when I was around. I think my favorite was Justice League, Legion of Doom, it was kind of like the greatest hits of the good guys and bad guys. That was my favorite actually.

In a franchise film the goal, it seems, is to make each film better? Were you nervous about this new X-Men film?

Hugh Jackman: Absolutely. There was a genuine feeling among everyone making this movie of wanting to, I suppose, please the fans, basically. The fans have been very good to us. Many people working on this film grew up with the comic books. They know everything about it so they're passionate about it. For my money, Two was better than One. I thought One was a great film and it reignited comic book movies. I felt Two was even better, I still feel we had room to improve. I think the script was great. The central idea of the script in Three was great. Brett has made it really entertaining and I think it's an emotionally satisfying film. Of course, we always want it to be better.

And I, in turn, want Wolverine to be better than all of these three. I think, what's the point of going into it if that's not your goal?

Being a Superman fan, what's your feelings on Bryan Singer's Superman Returns?

Hugh Jackman: Oh, I can't wait to see it. I know Bryan was very conflicted about doing X-Men 3 and doing Superman. I recall a moment on X-Men 1 and I was standing at the Statue of Liberty rescuing Anna and fighting up there, and he yelled at me through the megaphone, "Hugh, it's just like that moment in Superman when Superman rips off the door and pulls Lois Lane out of the car and then throws the door away. That's the moment and ACTION!" I said cut, "Bryan, I haven't seen Superman since I was twelve."

So we shut down filming and he had Superman in his trailer and we went in and watched the scene. He said, "You haven't watched this since you were twelve?" And I said, "No." And he said, "Well, I watch it like twenty times a year." So it was no surprise to me that he found it too compelling to give up. Although I know in his heart of hearts he would have loved to have done both.

Are you ready for the comic book conventions?

Hugh Jackman: You can never be ready for Comic-Con. If that becomes normal than everything is wrong. It is the most wonderful, amazing, freaky, slightly frightening experience you can go on. I remember being there announcing Van Helsing and I looked down and there were twelve Wolverine guys posing down, and trust me, every one of these guys looked exactly like the comic book version. They were stacked, these guys, and I was like "Whoa, I better get back in the gym!"

What's the toughest part of playing Wolverine?

Hugh Jackman: I think the toughest part of Wolverine, as an actor, he's always kind of fighting that beserker rage. You're feeling laid back and yet you always have to feel like he's ready to snap. That for an actor is concentration. A thing of intensity that you have to have. Over five months that's the toughest thing.

What do you think of all the new young actors and characters?

Hugh Jackman: I think Ben Foster does a great job as Angel. I thought it was a really interesting choice, the way he played it. I really felt for him. I felt his conflict. Ellen Page, I think is an amazing actress. I think she's wonderful as Kitty. She's gonna have a huge future. And that young guy Kelsey Grammer, I don't know where he's come from, but that guy... I'll tell yeah. I honestly think, because hasn't had a chance to see the movie, I said, "Man, you gotta see that movie with an audience." Particularly, in the third act when he's fighting. I said, "Everybody is gonna be cheering." The stuff that guy does is unbelievable. From the moment I saw him on set and we acted together, I can't see anyone who could have played that role.

Can you talk about The Fountain?

Hugh Jackman: It was the toughest thing I've ever done. It's probably the thing I'm the most proud of. It's a film, I can guarantee, whatever you think of it, if you can make sense of it it is like nothing you've ever seen before. I watch that movie and I think, "I'm just glad I'm in that thing." Darren Aronofsky, I think, is the new Kubrick. I think he's that good.

X-Men: The Last Stand opens in theaters on May 26th, 2006 from 20th Century Fox.

narrows101

05-22-2006, 02:24 PM

Reminder - Hugh gets PUNK'D tonight! MTV, 10:00 ET.

Deep Thinkin'!

05-22-2006, 03:36 PM

You'd squeeze the life outta him, no? :D :p

you got that right.

So, hugh get's punk'd tonight? Well, I've got to watch that!

narrows101

05-23-2006, 09:45 AM

Here's Hugh's Punk'd episode!

http://24.221.29.102/index.htm

narrows101

05-23-2006, 12:05 PM

This is from the charity screening in Australia - this is Hugh's dad (the infamous one from Leno) and his stepmother.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/71006471.jpg

Pauluz

05-23-2006, 12:09 PM

Basing of his looks, Hugh must really look like his mother. :D

narrows101

05-23-2006, 12:12 PM

Basing of his looks, Hugh must really look like his mother. :D
I've seen pictures of his mother and the camera showed her in the audience when he did Inside the Actors Studio - yes, he looks like his mother. They have the same shaped face.

Here's an article about their relationship.

http://hjackman.com/news/2004/may/040522mirror.html

Pauluz

05-23-2006, 12:27 PM

Here's Hugh's Punk'd episode!

http://24.221.29.102/index.htm

That was AWESOME! :eek: :up:

narrows101

05-23-2006, 03:44 PM

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12938601/

Hugh Jackman sinks claws into ‘X-Men’
On-screen Wolverine would like to model his career after Paul Newman’s
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:24 p.m. ET May 23, 2006

CANNES, France - Turns out the man behind Wolverine, that international mutant of mystery, is not so mysterious after all.

Rather than a lone wolf with a murky origin and a volatile temperament like he has in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” Hugh Jackman’s a family man from Australia whose main superpower seems to be an infectious grin.

Instead of a brooding figure wrapped up in Wolverine’s own dark thoughts, Jackman’s a guy always thinking of others. Just now, he’s concentrating on his wife, Australian actress Deborra-Lee Furness, who co-stars with Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne in “Jindabyne,” a drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival a day after “X-Men: The Last Stand” played there.

“I’m my wife’s publicist,” he joked, showing off the press booklet for her film and beginning an interview for “X-Men” proudly boasting that Furness made it to Cannes with her first film after a five-year break to look after their two young children.

Jackman and Furness’ Cannes trip this time is far different from one they made in the late 1990s, when they turned up to shop around “Paperback Hero,” an unfinished Australian film Jackman starred in, to distributors.
Instead of the Sean Connery suite they have this time, with their own private elevator at the luxurious Carlton Hotel, back then they stayed in a backpacker’s hotel and spent most of their time trying to sneak into glitzy parties without invitations.

“We managed to get in because my wife is a genius getting into places she shouldn’t be in,” Jackman, 37, told The Associated Press at his hotel suite. “It was kind of great and amazing, and I sometimes wish I could just stroll out in the crowd without being recognized and just watch it all. But that’s not the experience this time. Mind you, given the two, I prefer this one.
“You know, it feels very James Bond, actually,” Jackman said, staring around at his suite’s ornate furnishings and the framed photo of former Bond actor Connery on an end table.

Jackman’s name was among those tossed about as prospective Bonds before the role went to Daniel Craig. Agent 007 was not a part Jackman was angling for, and considering he’s become the hardest-working mutant in show business, it’s hard to imagine how he could have fit it in.

A busy year for Jackman
After the third “X-Men” film, Jackman has five more movies coming in less than a year.

He stars with Rachel Weisz in “The Fountain,” a fountain-of-youth fantasy from director Darren Aronofsky (“Requiem for a Dream”). In “The Prestige,” from director Christopher Nolan (“Batman Begins”), Jackman and Christian Bale play magicians in a blood rivalry. Jackman plays a British aristocrat suspected of serial murders in Woody Allen’s romantic caper “Scoop,” co-starring Scarlett Johansson. And Jackman provides voices for two animated flicks, as the lead rodent in “Flushed Away,” the story of an uppercrust London rat hurled into the sewers, and as a penguin in the cartoon musical “Happy Feet.”

He owes it all to Wolverine, a role he initially failed to land. Bryan Singer, who directed the first two “X-Men” flicks, had cast Scottish actor Dougray Scott, but he had to back out because of a scheduling conflict to shoot “Mission: Impossible II.”

Jackman happened to be in Los Angeles visiting from Australia as the first “X-Men” movie began shooting in Toronto. After a whirlwind of meetings and auditions, he started work as the replacement Wolverine a week after landing in Los Angeles.

“Hugh has kind of personified that character,” said Brett Ratner, who directed “X-Men: The Last Stand.” “This is the guy. I can’t even envision someone else playing that role, he’s so good at it. There are some actors who I feel were born to play certain roles, and he was with Wolverine.”

The Marvel Comics “X-Men” tales have a pantheon of mutants with superhuman abilities, yet dark loner Wolverine is the fan favorite. A man with a shadowy past, Wolverine has the ability to heal almost instantly and has been fitted with retractable metal claws.

The character commands respect as much from his menacing attitude as his superpowers, Jackman said.

“He may not have the most powerful mutation, but he’s kind of the most feared,” Jackman said. “I remember when Mike Tyson was fighting early on ... Because on one level, we kind of admired him, but on another level, you kind of felt for the person who was opposing him, because he was frightening.

“Wolverine’s got a little bit of that quality in him. You kind of like him, and you’re a little bit scared of him at the same time.”

Aiming for a career like Newman's
The youngest of five children, Jackman had done amateur theater and initially studied journalism before deciding to pursue acting. He studied at the Australian Academy of Performing Arts and quickly found success on Australian television and in stage musicals, including a British production of “Oklahoma!”

Jackman won a Tony on Broadway for “The Boy From Oz,” in which he played singer-songwriter Peter Allen, Liza Minnelli’s ex-husband, who died of AIDS in 1992.

With his success in “X-Men,” Jackman went on to star as the title character in the vampire-hunter tale “Van Helsing,” the romantic comedies “Someone Like You” and “Kate & Leopold” and the thriller “Swordfish” with “X-Men” co-star Halle Berry.

Jackman is developing an “X-Men” spinoff movie focusing on Wolverine, and he said he plans to maintain a mix of stage and film roles.

“If I really look at a career I admire, it’s probably someone like Paul Newman. I always felt that he was an actor, a character actor. He didn’t even kind of put on airs that ‘I’m a lead actor.’ He really just did justice to the part, and he mixed his stage life with his film life,” Jackman said.

“For me, that’s an important part of staying fresh, staying alive. You never know how this business is going to go. I feel very lucky at the moment that there are a number of doors open to me, and let’s hope I can keep them wedged open.”

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Deep Thinkin'!

05-23-2006, 04:00 PM

Here's Hugh's Punk'd episode!

http://24.221.29.102/index.htm

I saw that. I FELT SO BAD FOR HUGH! GAH, that's gotta give you a heart attack! It makes me just wanna go find him and give him a hug, you know? Do you see it his face!? It's like "OH MY M****** F****** G** D*** ********* ** ** ** ** ** what did I DO!!?!??!?!?!"

AWWW, poor hugh!

Deep Thinkin'!

05-25-2006, 05:54 PM

Bump!

narrows101

05-25-2006, 06:08 PM

Check out these Hugh links - there's just too many stories to post. Hugh was on The Today Show today, Regis & Kelly, MTV TRL, Ellen tomorrow - I can't keep up!

http://news.google.com/news?q=hugh+jackman&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?ei=UTF-8&p=hugh+jackman&datesort=1&fr=sfp

Today Show - scroll to Jackman on new 'X-Men' movie (javascript:oMvsLink('00','5b1fbfe5-3bfa-407b-b8db-14a0824b2376','','','','','',false,false,'Source_T oday Show Entertainment'))

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/

Two videos:

Red carpet:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=3bbe7d4b-59ca-438a-9476-cecc8e4f90eb&t=s120&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_cannes_celebrity

Interview:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=3bbe7d4b-59ca-438a-9476-cecc8e4f90eb&t=s120&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_cannes_celebrity

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=3bbe7d4b-59ca-438a-9476-cecc8e4f90eb&t=s120&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_cannes_celebrity

narrows101

05-25-2006, 07:11 PM

http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=589

Jackman Talks X-Men: The Last Stand!
Date: May 25, 2006

By: Kellvin Chavez
Source: Latino Review (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/)

Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Logan/Wolverine, the solitary fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, retractable adamantium claws and animal-like fury in the upcoming trilogy, "X-Men: The Last Stand." (http://www.latinoreview.com/filmpreview.php?id=23)

We had a chance to catch up with Hugh Jackman while in NYC doing his roundtable interviews to talk about the the film (http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=589#) and here is what he had to say to us.

WARNING, THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS INTERVIEW AND IF YOU WISH NOT TO BE SPOILED LEAVE NOW.

Have you seen the movie yet?
Jackman: I haven't seen it finished. I saw it probably a month ago. What I saw was essentially the same thing, but there were many FX still coming in.

Did you know about the little tag coming in at the end? I don't want to spoil it for Wolverine.
Jackman: I've heard. I've heard, yes. It's at the end of the credits, right, and I said, 'No one sits through the credits.'

They lock the doors.
Jackman: Yeah, right, and they're like seven minutes long.

Did you seem more comfortable on this film as sort of the team leader and your responsibilities on set?
Jackman: Becoming part of the team is pretty much a given at this point. Like in the first script that I got he kind of had a room at the mansion and I said to them that I could never see him having a room there. They might have had that in the comic book (http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=589#), but I thought that was always going to be a bridge that was too far for him to cross, but it's a given that he's a part of the team, and it's really about what role he's going to take. As you know there is a huge shake up in the team fairly early on and so will he step up or won't he? He's essentially a loner and if anything needs to be done he just does it himself and doesn't feel comfortable relying on anyone else.

So there has been talk about the 'Wolverine' prequel. How soon do you think that will get going and do you think that there might be an 'X4' before you get a 'Wolverine' prequel?
Jackman: No. I don't think that there will be an 'X4.' We've got a second draft in from David Benioff who is an amazing writer and a huge fan and I'm very, very excited about it. So I would say that 'Wolverine' would be the next, but as for when that might happen I don't know. It is looking very exciting though.

Will we see familiar villains from the 'X-Men' universe?
Jackman: It's too early to say. Too early. It's even a little - well, it's fair to say that it's probably going to be a prequel, but it's too early to say exactly who is going to be in it. Basically, I wouldn't tell you anyway, but I thought it would be nice to say it's too early [Laughs].

Where would you like to see the character of Wolverine go next?
Jackman: I have no idea. I haven't even thought of that. I think that at the end of this film, it's a pretty enormous thing that happens and it's very unsure, even though I think that there's this fairly good place, I think, in terms of the world of where mutants and humans stand, and so it's pretty unclear what's going to happen next.

The fact that he basically kills the woman he loves for the greater good, where do you think he can progress from that point?
Jackman: Well, it's the ultimate heroic act, what is done. It's how far would you go for the woman that you love or the person that you love, and it's a complicated love as you know since it is unrequited. That's one of the themes of the movie (http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=589#), and I love that about the film. I think that at the end of this he's going to be as tortured and conflicted internally as he's ever been even though he has kind of heroically continually crossed that line of doing the greater good. So personally I don't know. Maybe therapy. It'll be like Tony Soprano, but with Wolverine in a chair.

Can you talk about how this film was different without Bryan Singer directing?
Jackman: They are both great filmmakers, and I think that Brett [Ratner] has done an amazing job for this film. I think that he has put his mark on it and it's a more emotional film. He's a very visceral and passionate guy. You know exactly what he's thinking at all times. He can't hold stuff in. He's a very happy guy and he loves what he does. I feel that comes across in the film. As emotional as this movie is there is still a sense of fun about it and there are some good laughs and I think that people are going to watch this movie, the fans, and they might be a bit shocked and maybe a bit angry at some of the turn of events, but they're still going to have a good and fun time. Bryan is quite cerebral, very intelligent, a great filmmaker with a great eye and I would say that ultimately what Brett did smartly was he didn't try and reinvent the wheel. I don't think that someone who isn't really an expert on movies will really be able to tell the difference in terms of style. I don't think that he tried to reinvent it, as I said, but I think that he managed to kind of elevate it in a way, emotionally anyway, the characters.

You visited the 'Superman Returns' set and there was a rumor that you filmed a cameo on that. Is that true?
Jackman: No. I went and had dinner with Bryan and I've heard that many times for about the last month, but it's not true. It's really not true.

Was 'X-Men III' a happier set because there were reports that Halle [Berry] and Bryan Singer were having clashes on the other films?
Jackman: Well, I'll speak from my point of view, which is all I can do really, but I loved making all three films. Bryan is a different director from Brett. Bryan is intense at times and he is a friend and I love working with him. So I can't speak for the others, but my perspective was that we were a pretty close knit family. Just like before we were all meeting up and there was no sense of a Hollywood type hello, or 'How are you doing?' Trust me, everyone was very friendly. No one had to do this third one and everyone kind of came onboard, and I also thought that this script was the strongest of the three. I thought that central idea was really strong and so it was a blast for me. I had fun. Brett is a very different style to Bryan and there would be times when Brett was on three cell phones at once during a take, and you'd have to say, 'Brett, we can hear you from here, mate.' [Laughs] But both of them kind of love what they do. Both of them are very intense and passionate and so there is always going to be moments when you have that type of passion and always going to be a little bit of this.

Has Bryan called you up and talked to you about how close 'Logan's Run' is?
Jackman: Well, I hear that the age cut off for the movie is like twenty three. That's going to be a stretch for me [Laughs].

I guess that you could be the old man.
Jackman: Yeah. I could, but the answer is no. I've got no calls yet.

Can you talk about 'The Prestige' and what that's about?
Jackman: 'The Prestige' is something I'm very excited about. It's a movie that Chris Nolan directed with Christian Bale and Michael Caine and Scarlet Johansson and David Bowie. How awesome is that? The movie is extraordinary. It was an amazing script and I can't wait to see it. I love working with Chris and working on that film.

I can't wait to see 'The Fountain' as well. Can you talk about why the wait in releasing the film?
Jackman: Well, basically, that movie is like nothing you've ever seen before. This movie, I'm so proud to be in that film that I watch it and I go, 'I'm so glad to be in that.' I think that [Darren] Aronofsky is like a Kubrick, but from a marketing point of view you have to be very careful with how you position it and so they always had a plan to kind of start it at film festivals, the right film festivals to build momentum and then release it. So the movie has actually been ready for a few months I think, but they just had to wait for the right film festival. I do know where it's going, but I can't announce it. I'm not allowed to say, but there is a plan now in place for it. I know they said that there is a time of the year that they want to put it out and it's not this time. They don't want to just put it out because it is a special movie.

There were rumors that you'd like a role in the next 'Batman' film that Chris Nolan is doing. Any truth to that or is that just fanboy stuff?
Jackman: That's more fanboy stuff, and probably, you know, joking around on set. I mean, there was Christian and I there, and there was one scene in the movie - I don't want to tell too many details. Chris hates any kind of stuff like that, but there is a scene where if we were both superheroes we would have leapt in and done something, but both of us were standing there doing absolutely nothing and we were kind of laughing that here you have Wolverine and Batman just kind of twiddling their thumbs. There was this potentially very heroic situation, but they're standing there going [Whistling]. We joked a little bit, but I mean, I'll be honest with you, if Chris rang me to do something, I think of him that highly, that I would do it. I'm not laying down that I want to be in this movie or that movie, but he's an amazing director.

Did you and Bale talk much about your respective experiences as superheroes?
Jackman: Yeah, absolutely. I really respected that movie and I really respected what Christian did in it. I thought that similar to what we were trying to do with 'X-Men' which is making these characters believable and understanding them so that as fantastical as they are you kind of can relate to them and I think that we sort of talked a bit about that. Actors talk about things like, 'What did you get in the deal?' It's a little more that than philosophy general [Laughs].

Were there any interesting outtakes on this film? And do you still have the same muscles as you did in the film?
Jackman: The second answer is no [Laughs]. I'm probably fifteen, twenty pounds bigger in it than I am now, but this is sort of who I am. I workout everyday, but this is how I am naturally. I eat a ridiculous amount of food, probably four thousand calories a day and I train like a bastard, as we say in Australia. Basically, for this I trained every morning for an hour and a half and I hit it pretty hard, and I use it as a time to get into character. So I play Godsmack and Metallica which is the kind of angriest heavy metal music there is because if anyone has done any weight lifting there is that moment in almost every set which is similar, in a way, to that moment of when you go berserk into rage or you just start crying. Wolverine always goes into berserk rage and never cries. He never has that breaking point, but when you have the heaviest weight possible above you, in every set there is that moment where it's like I crank up the music and I get as angry as I can daily which is a great warm-up for my character. The first answer is that there are many funny takes that you will never see. There is a gag reel that I tell you is the best gag reel that I have ever seen, and if you ever get your hands on it you won't stop laughing. But you won't get your hands on it.

What about Ratner in the suit?
Jackman: Oh, yeah. For sure. I got a little tap on the shoulder just before action was yelled, and I got the tap and so I just sat out and he walked down there. I couldn't see it because I was behind a corridor wall and the next thing I hear is this hysterical laughter from Halle Berry. Brett was fully into it. He learned the whole scene and it was a long scene, about two pages and he had learned the whole thing and Halle never stopped laughing from beginning to end. I think that he was a little miffed about that. I think that he seriously wanted to do it. He said, 'I was pretty much as good as you, right?'

How was it having Kelsey Grammer in the mix?
Jackman: I love Kelsey. I mean, if you've seen the pictures you would never recognize him, but I can't imagine anyone else playing the role and in that moment - physically what he's doing is amazing. I thought that the look was amazing, but if you ever need proof as to why Kelsey is the only person who could play that role is that moment when his hand goes to blue to his normal color and it cuts to his eyes is for me one of the best moments in the film. I think that kind of says everything for me.

Did Marvel have more input on one and two or was it the same amount of input?
Jackman: It was the same input I think. Well, the guy who is second, I don't know his official title, but Kevin Feige was working full time on the movie and now he is working for Marvel. So his influence was great and he was very clever, but he was always in there at every script meeting, at every meeting.

Was there anything that Marvel kind of objected to at all?
Jackman: I honestly don't know. I hadn't thought that there was a difference in input, but I mean, there was a new writer and a new director so everyone has to be respectful of giving them the movie and let them make their movie. So with one and two we were in a flow and so it was kind of the same team, but honestly I can't really think of a huge difference by the Marvel people. What do you know? You probably know more than me.

This film kind of deals with the ambiguity of Xavier's approach. Was that always a part of the story, that ambiguity?
Jackman: Yeah. I think that 'X-Men' only works in it's ambiguity. I don't think that it works with pure heroes and pure villains and every character you can see that. I think that there is a case that every character wanting to cure themselves is wrong, and I think that's what makes it good. I don't know if you've ever read Nelson Mandela's book, but in his last paragraph, and you'd have to say that he's probably one of the greatest living human beings and that his cause was the most just, and at the very end of his book he says that he questions whether he did the right thing in my life or not because I sacrificed risking being the father of a nation for being a poor father to his children because he was basically never there for his children. He knew that when he went into it, and so he has lived with that guilt and doubt about whether he did the right thing. Now that's Nelson Mandela and I think that if you don't have that feeling about Xavier, that he doesn't wrestle with that, and if you look to 'Henry the V' there is that scene where before the war he walks around the camp disguised hearing their fears and wondering if it's right that he is sending people to die no matter how just the cause is. I think that Xavier knows what is going to happen. He knows what is at stake and you have to feel his weariness. Is taking Jean down the right thing. He's going against his nature effectively and that's what Wolverine is going through too, and for me that's what I love about the movie. Good question. I liked that one.

Did you do all your own stunts on this film?
Jackman: Mostly.

Which was your favorite one?
Jackman: Flying back through the trees. I got up to like eighty miles an hour going through there. The first three takes are unusable because it's like I'm a ride. When I go on those rides I giggle, and on the first three takes I was giggling. I couldn't help it. Trust me, eighty miles an hour backwards from a standing start. I was at like eighty miles an hour in like four seconds or less and so we kept ratcheting it up and the stunt guys with me know that I like it and so they would say, 'Alright, Hugh, we're going to go at sixty percent.' And I know that means a hundred percent, but they're saying for everyone that we're just going sixty percent for the first one and then on like take four they kind of go to like a hundred and ten percent.

Who do you play in 'Happy Feet?'
Jackman: In 'Happy Feet' I play a guy - the father of the main character who is played by Elijah Wood and I'm married to Nicole Kidman and her character is like a Norma Jean wannabe and I play a kind of Elvis wannabe. So my character's name is Memphis. He used to be called Elvis until about three sessions in and I was like, 'Oh, my character's name is changed to Memphis?' They said, 'Yeah, well, we just wanted to have the feeling that there is an essence of Elvis.' I said, 'So what you're telling me is that my impersonation was really crap?' [Laughs]

What about the film you did with Woody Allen?
Jackman: Oh yeah, 'Scoop.' I just saw it and it's very funny. I play an aristocrat who is a modern day 'Hello' Magazine sort of playboy who is also into politics and he's suspected of being a serial killer by Woody Allen's character and Scarlet Johansson's character. To everyone else that's the most ludicrous thing and so they investigate it privately and it's very funny.

narrows101

05-25-2006, 07:47 PM

TRL:

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Fleet Week in NY:

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narrows101

05-25-2006, 07:48 PM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/ship4.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/Ship3.jpg

DarknessOfDeath

05-25-2006, 07:49 PM

I hear Famke Janssen wanted Hugh Jackman's pants off during the infirmary shoot... she asked the producers and they said no...but again. She probably uh visualised without his pants on in her mind. damn it ... I knew she had a bad naughty side.

narrows101

05-25-2006, 08:34 PM

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=c9302208-689c-4415-8ab0-9ed743004ab7&k=3587

Wolverine gets to stretch
Hugh Jackman says character is more than an action hero
Jamie PortmanCanWest News Service

Thursday, May 25, 2006

CREDIT: FoxHugh Jackman in "X-Men: The Last St"Hugh Jackman has a confession to make about Wolverine, the mutant fighting machine he portrays with such ferocity in the X-Men films.

He understands the need for having hands which are actually retractable metallic claws capable of slicing and dicing his adversaries. What he can’t come to terms with are Wolverine’s grotesquely long sideburns. These the 37-year-old Australian hates. They are definitely not “a good look” for him.

“Is it a good look for Wolverine? Yeah.” It’s a reluctant admission — but it’s delivered with a smile, because the real-life Jackman has a sunnier disposition than Wolverine, a character given to white-hot rages. But never in even his wildest days — not even as a teenager — would Jackman have ever considered sprouting facial adornments like those dratted sideburns.

Still, it was all in a good cause. Wolverine may have his alarming aspects, but he’s a much-loved member of the X-Men comic book universe.

Furthermore, Jackman knows full well that it’s Wolverine who has made him an international star. So, even though he’s not that big a science fiction fan, he does make exceptions — which is why he’s here this morning singing the praises of X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s the final instalment of a groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the conflict between mutants equipped with a range of extraordinary and dangerous powers and the society which seeks to contain them.

Jackman found it his most rugged challenge yet. During shooting, he lost count of the number of enemies he demolished with his claws. He estimates that in the finished film, there are at least 30 victims of his rage, but adds that a good 50 more were left on the cutting room floor. After seeing the movie, he jokingly asked: “Where are those other guys that I killed?”

But actually, doing those scenes was no joke at all.

“You film them at night, and you’re forever slipping on gravel and whacking guys on the head (when you’re not supposed to). Those stunt guys are tough, but one poor guy, I clocked right in the eye.” The stunt man was fortunately wearing a prosthetic which Jackman accidentally sliced in two.

Elsewhere in the film, Wolverine literally soars to new heights. That’s because of the decision to incorporate “the fastball special” — a popular element with fans of the original Marvel comics — which had Jackman hurtling at up to 80 miles an hour through a forest. There was no computer-generated imagery in this one: it was the real thing with Jackman being dispatched by a 300-yard cable. The actor was in constant fear of hitting something or someone.

In one throat-catching moment, he came within five feet of slamming into an expensive camera.

Jackman knows that the new movie is darker in texture than its predecessors, and that’s because of its central plot device — a “cure” for mutancy that will allow members of Wolverine’s community to make a choice: give up their powers and integrate into a society which has long feared them and ostracized them, or retain their uniqueness even though it means continuing alienation.

The result is civil war within the alien community — on the one hand the followers of Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), the tolerant telepath who founded the X-Men, on the other the fiery Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen) who initiates a mutant revolution with the sole aim of destroying the cure and anyone who supports it.

“I think the the cure is the best idea we’ve had script-wise,” Jackman says. “It crystallizes what it’s about, and I like that a lot.” But he also knows the movie will be controversial with fans. “A few of the characters die in this … that’s definitely darker.”

Familiar characters from the earlier movies are back in this one: Halle Berry as Storm, the mutant who can fly and manipulate the weather; Anna Paquin as Rogue, whose mutant powers are such that she threatens the life of all whom she touches, even those she loves; Rebecca Romijn as the shape-shifting Mystique; James Marsden as Cyclops, the mutant whose eyes can dispatch an energy beam that splits mountains; Shawn Ashmore as Iceman, the mutant who can turn everything about him into a freezing cold.

There are also new characters — most notably Kelsey Grammer, as Beast, a blue and furry intellectual who’s been one of the most popular of the comic book characters.

However, one key figure from the first two films — director Bryan Singer — was absent. He went off to film Superman Returns and, after a period of pre-production turmoil, Brett Ratner, the boyish filmmaker behind Rush Hour and Red Dragon, took over. Jackman has nothing but praise for Ratner’s contribution — but “of course” Singer was missed.

“I think that he (Bryan) needs great credit for what he created, the world that he created, and Brett smartly didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. I think he added his own voice to it, but largely I would say that most people who see the film are not going to see a huge difference — as they did with, say, Harry Potter. I think it’s a fairly seamless transition — I thought Brett did that really well. He’s a very emotional guy, a very instinctive guy, a very passionate sort of guy. I think that all comes out in the film.”

Jackman won a 2004 Tony award for his performance in the hit Broadway musical, The Boy From Oz, and has a number of other films coming up — Woody Allen’s Scoop, Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige — which show his wide dramatic range.

But he considers Wolverine far more than just another genre action hero, and stresses that this film in particular has been fulfilling for him dramatically. Near the end of The Last Stand, there’s a climactic encounter with Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey, the formidable telekinetic who in the new film is reborn as The Dark Phoenix, a creature with powers so frightening that she can’t even comprehend them. This wrenching scene, which will be controversial with fans, is one of Jackman’s favourite moments.

“It’s the ultimate heroic kind of moment and I think a fitting dramatic ending to the trilogy,” he says. “I mean — it was always there from the beginning, the idea that this would happen at the end. Wolverine … has had several heroic moments, but none as great as this. It’s Greek tragedy really and quite melodramatic. It’s huge what’s going on. I thought it was fantastic — and fitting for the finale.”

© CanWest News Service 2006

narrows101

05-25-2006, 09:10 PM

Check out these YouTube things:

His Boy from Oz performance at the Tony Awards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zU2IcVzbc&search=hugh%20jackman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zU2IcVzbc&search=hugh%20jackman)

Australian Movie Erskineville Kings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twz-Xs5RoyA&search=hugh%20jackman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twz-Xs5RoyA&search=hugh%20jackman)

Something from X2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbqQTO-vgjw&search=hugh%20jackman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbqQTO-vgjw&search=hugh%20jackman)

narrows101

05-26-2006, 11:18 AM

http://people.aol.com/people/galleries/0,19884,1197016_4,00.html

MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY
Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman do a little gladhanding during their visit to to promote X-Men: The Last Stand on MTV's TRL on Thursday. When asked by Jackman what's toughest about working with him, Berry said it's the fact that he's "so stinkin' good-looking" – and that he's married.

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narrows101

05-26-2006, 11:19 AM

Hugh on Conan, The Today, Show, Regis & Kelly, Punk'd, Oprah magazine:

http://24.221.29.102/index.htm

danoyse

05-26-2006, 11:36 AM

Wow...

Hey narrows, thanks for finding all of this stuff these last few weeks! I'd never have been able to find all of it on my own!

I'm off to the movies now! :)

The Caped Knight

05-27-2006, 07:11 PM

I liked X3, But I thought we got less badass beast Wolverine, and more love sick puppy softy Logan compared to the two other X-Men movies .

I mean we got all little bit of the Beast in The fight scene's but overall we got more softy Logan in this movie .

DarknessOfDeath

05-27-2006, 10:08 PM

still i thought he was badass still but a lil softy ;)

The Caped Knight

05-30-2006, 10:51 AM

The Best version of Wolverine is X-MEN : TAS
I really like his X -suit.

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1968/wolverineopens5ai.gif

danoyse

05-30-2006, 03:01 PM

I can't speak for how Hugh would look in that thing (and if I did, I'm not sure I would be able to speak at all :eek: )...

...but last summer I was at Universal Studios in Florida, and there's a Marvel Superhero Island with comic-themed rides and stores, and a superhero parade.

Anyway, I caught the parade (while having lunch at the Fantastic 4 restaurant), and I saw the poor guy in the yellow spandex Wolverine costume.

All I can say is...I am so glad they don't use that costume in the movie. The guy looked kinda ridiculous.

Not to say I don't like it in the comics/cartoon. It looks great there. But in real life? I've seen it, it's scary. :eek:

Mary

05-30-2006, 04:38 PM

i don't think it would be so weird to see Wolverine in the movie with the orange one. Like EVO.

DarknessOfDeath

05-30-2006, 05:11 PM

orange?

danoyse

05-30-2006, 05:17 PM

From Universal Studios:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/P1010187.jpg

Try shoplifting at THAT store. :eek:

The Caped Knight

05-30-2006, 05:31 PM

Now that's The Badass Wolverine I know .

XCharlieX

05-30-2006, 05:32 PM

Simply put: logan is GREAT in this film.

danoyse

05-30-2006, 05:43 PM

Now that's The Badass Wolverine I know .

Notice the butt-kicking Rogue on the left. :up:

XmEnfAn

05-30-2006, 10:41 PM

hah, I almost missed that.

LEX

05-30-2006, 10:52 PM

From Universal Studios:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/P1010187.jpg

Try shoplifting at THAT store. :eek:
Holy hell. I want that in my room!

The Caped Knight

05-30-2006, 11:57 PM

Now this is What I'm talking about Bub !!!!

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7969/wolverdices0yt.gif

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3326/wolvercircles8qk.gif

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9941/wolvertunnel1bb.gif

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/7301/WolverinePops.gif

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2206/wolverslice9dn.gif

The Caped Knight

05-31-2006, 11:01 AM

http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/X-Men/2nd%20team/wolverine/Wolverine%20TA.gifhttp://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/X-Men/movie/wolverinemovie2.gif
Wolverine (http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/X-Men/2nd%20team/wolverine/Wolverine.htm)

Kira

05-31-2006, 11:17 AM

From Universal Studios:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/P1010187.jpg

Try shoplifting at THAT store. :eek:

I love the challenge. :D

The Caped Knight

05-31-2006, 02:23 PM

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2073%20-%20Wolverine.jpg

danoyse

05-31-2006, 06:43 PM

OK, he looks like the Joker in that picture. :eek:

DarknessOfDeath

05-31-2006, 06:47 PM

I don't like it...

Sub-Zero

05-31-2006, 07:23 PM

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2073%20-%20Wolverine.jpg

that pic makes me glad that they didn't use the colorful costume. that mask looks horrible.

DarknessOfDeath

05-31-2006, 07:37 PM

reminds me of an evil version of Singer... hehehe. -chuckles- yup that scares me even more than Famke in X3 :p

danoyse

05-31-2006, 08:56 PM

Wow..."The Fountain" actually has a release date: October 13th!

Can't wait to see that movie, finally. :up:

RonStoppablefan

05-31-2006, 09:13 PM

Ok guy's I'm back, saw the film for a second time. Wolverine is just so awesome, I loved his fighting scene's. And I guess the Wolverine movie is now in contract from the latest interview, that makes me very happy.

eXperiment

05-31-2006, 09:14 PM

me 2, can't wait!!!!

ginny_weasley

05-31-2006, 09:15 PM

Wow..."The Fountain" actually has a release date: October 13th!

Can't wait to see that movie, finally. :up:
Seconded. :up:

eXperiment

05-31-2006, 09:15 PM

thirded

danoyse

06-02-2006, 08:29 PM

And another movie update...the trailer for "Scoop" is online. Looks pretty funny. :)

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/scoop.html

narrows101

06-04-2006, 07:36 AM

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19344776%255E662,00.html

Boy back in Oz

03jun06

THE Boy From Oz has landed back in Oz but he may not be here to stay, with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner saying he wants Hugh Jackman to play him on the big screen.

Fresh from wowing crowds at the Cannes Film Festival, Aussie sensation Jackman yesterday proved he still called Australia home when he touched down in Sydney.

With wife Deborra-lee Furness and their two children, Oscar and Ava, the casual Jackman clan appeared anything but the superstar family.
Yet legendary skirt-chaser Hefner reckons Jackman's the real deal after watching X-Men: The Last Stand.

"I'd love Hugh to play me," the 80-year-old tycoon said.

Jackman, 37, has returned home to reprise the role of Peter Allen in the Broadway musical that sent his career into the stratosphere.
Boy From Oz rehearsals start in Sydney on June 26.
The show is due to open in Melbourne on August 11.

narrows101

06-04-2006, 07:38 AM

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20060604.O02&irec=29

Hugh Jackman After the press conference for X-Men, Hugh Jackman (aka the maverick Wolverine) was the only star from the ensemble to pay a visit to the TV reporters and fans waiting outside for interviews, photos, autographs or even just for a glimpse of the Australian hunk.

narrows101

06-04-2006, 07:42 AM

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/return-to-oz/2006/06/03/1148956585743.html

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Family/hughjackman_narrowweb__300x6390.jpg
Family man: Jackman and Furness with children Oscar and Ava yesterday.
Photo: David G Morgan

Hugh Jackman showed why he is a genuine boy from Oz yesterday, standing on the sidelines of a schoolboy rugby match at Northbridge.

Jackman entertained six-year-old son Oscar while his actor wife Deborra-Lee Furness played with their 10-month-old daughter Ava during a junior match at the grounds of the Shore School.

"Most people left them alone on the sidelines," said a source."But a couple of the mothers were giggling when they realised it was Hugh and his family."

Jackman arrived in Sydney two days ago ahead of rehearsals for The Boy From Oz.

The actor, who grew up in the North Shore suburb of Wahroonga, went to school in Sydney before training as an actor in Perth.

The action film X-Men 3 has been a smash-hit at the US box office, toppling The Da Vinci Code from the top spot. It is also number one in Australia.

Jackman was said to earn at least $US15 million ($20 million) for the film, but is likely to take an even larger slice of the profits because of a contractual box office deal.

He is already planning a spin-off series of movies based on his X-Men character Wolverine.

Jackman will begin full rehearsals for The Boy From Oz in Sydney in the next fortnight. The $21 million production is expected to be one of the most popular musicals staged in Australia.

Furness has also stepped back into the acting spotlight, receiving accolades at Cannes for her role in Ray Lawrence's new film Jindabyne.

mike20

06-05-2006, 02:44 PM

ANYONE notice when logan gave jean scot's glasses or showed them to her he had a bruise on his thumb or looked like it anyway. shouldnt that be heeled ? picky yes, it just caught my eye, loved the move ayway for sure

Retroman

06-07-2006, 02:22 AM

:eek: Russell Crowe's loss is Jackmans gain....

Jackman Joins Kidman in Luhrmann's Epic
Source: Twentieth Century Fox June 7, 2006

Hugh Jackman, just off the record-breaking success of X-Men: The Last Stand, has agreed to star with Nicole Kidman in writer-director Baz Luhrmann's as yet untitled epic.

Jackman, one of today's most in-demand and busiest talents, chose the Luhrmann film over the myriad projects he has been offered in recent weeks. His next film set for release, Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, is already receiving strong critical buzz. Also awaiting release for the actor are Woody Allen's Scoop and Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

Luhrmann's film, a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvass, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle.

The film begins pre-production October 2006 and production commences in Australia in February 2007. A third lead, a dark rival for the heroine's love and land, will be announced shortly.
Source: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14883

Advanced Dark

06-07-2006, 02:38 AM

So I guess Wolverine is next.

Loganbabe

06-07-2006, 03:16 AM

So I hope! :up:
Oh, the Baz Luhrmann's project sounds really interesting! And with Nicole...great! You go Hugh! :)

RedIsNotBlue

06-07-2006, 04:15 AM

Baz Luhrmann is bad for society. But hey just my opinion.

Celestial

06-07-2006, 04:28 AM

I guess Wolverine is delayed.

Retroman

06-07-2006, 04:45 AM

So I guess Wolverine is next.
No, hes doing Boy from Oz first in Australia this summer then he's shooting another movie then the Luhrmann epic early next year.

Retroman

06-07-2006, 04:47 AM

I guess Wolverine is delayed.
I don't think thats a bad thing. Gives the writer more time to perfect the script and the director (who ever they get) a good amount of time to do pre-production.:up:

RedIsNotBlue

06-07-2006, 05:09 AM

I don't think thats a bad thing. Gives the writer more time to perfect the script and the director (who ever they get) a good amount of time to do pre-production.:up:

But wasn't it delayed already? Oh well.

LEX

06-07-2006, 05:12 AM

Retroman

06-07-2006, 05:29 AM

But wasn't it delayed already? Oh well.
No, not that i know of. They haven't hired a director nor did they have a release date set. David Benioff was hired in October, 2004 and he's -according to Jackman- on the 3rd or 4th draft now.

RedIsNotBlue

06-07-2006, 05:30 AM

No, not that i know of. They haven't hired a director nor did they have a release date set. David Benioff was hired in October, 2004 and he's -according to Jackman- on the 3rd or 4th draft now.

I am pretty sure on one of Marvel's slates it was targeted for 2007 release.

narrows101

06-07-2006, 05:55 AM

He's in Sydney? :eek:

Operation: Stalking Hugh begins now!
Yes, Hugh is back in Australia - he arrived the beginning of June. He was in Adelaide yesterday promoting BFO (Lex, I think I posted stories about that above). There's a picture of him with his son on Bondi Beach on Sunday. His dad's 70th party is this month as is his daughter's christening next weekend. He was just in Adelaide. Then he goes to Seoul and Taiwan and then starts rehearsals for BFO on June 26.

About the Baz movie - YAY!!!! Hugh and Nicole!!!! When I heard Crowe dropped out and Ledger passed (although he's rumored for the third lead now), and found out it was a Fox project, I secretly wished for this movie, never thinking it would happen. And Hugh GETS TO USE HIS OWN ACCENT! This movie should get lots of publicity because of the stars, the epic nature, etc. Hugh is doing BFO from Aug. 3-Sept.16, then he films "The Tourist" - ANOTHER Fox property, and then presumably this new movie in February. He could possibly do Wolverine after that since it's slated for a 2008 release date. He's also rumored to be coming back to Broadway for the 2007-2008 season, but a "season" ends in May so that could be in 2008 for all we know.

I can't wait to see this "epic" movie!

Here's Hugh and Oscar on the beach.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Family/oscar-bondi-060406.jpg

LEX

06-07-2006, 06:03 AM

Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman -- it should be awesome to see. :up:

Retroman

06-07-2006, 06:29 AM

Retroman

06-07-2006, 06:31 AM

I am pretty sure on one of Marvel's slates it was targeted for 2007 release.
Target;) not set in stone. Until Fox announce its still not official.

RedIsNotBlue

06-07-2006, 06:35 AM

Target;) not set in stone. Until Fox announce its still not official.

I didn't say it was officially set for 2007 but just saying it was planned for 2007 at one point. It is still being shifted around it seems.

Celestial

06-07-2006, 06:47 AM

They should do Eucaplytus together too if this they hit it off on the big screen. Thats another Crowe project that fell apart last year btw. I think they even constructed the sets and had the costumes ready to roll.

If there ever was a male diva Russell Crowe is him.
I had wondered if this was a project that Hugh's production company might take on from their Sydney office. Maybe with a different leading lady.

Retroman

06-07-2006, 06:50 AM

I didn't say it was officially set for 2007 but just saying it was planned for 2007 at one point. It is still being shifted around it seems.
Oh, my bad.

Retroman

06-07-2006, 06:51 AM

I had wondered if this was a project that Hugh's production company might take on from their Sydney office. Maybe with a different leading lady.
Yeah, perhaps. If they want to stay faithfull to book that is. I think the character Kidman would have portrayed in Eucalyptus was supposed to be 19 or something.

Jan Irisi

06-07-2006, 07:58 AM

I am pretty sure on one of Marvel's slates it was targeted for 2007 release.

I thought I read somewhere recently that it may go into production late 2007 for a 2008 release. (Arad? Somebody said it I think)

narrows101

06-07-2006, 08:15 AM

They should do Eucaplytus together too if this they hit it off on the big screen.
Hugh and Nicole are great friends - when Nicole first came to the U.S. she roomed with Hugh's wife, who was living in LA at the time and hadn't met Hugh yet. Nicole was the presenter who announced his name and gave Hugh his Tony Award in 2004 at Radio City. They are also voicing "Happy Feet" and the rumor is that they are doing a duet of Prince's "Kiss" in the movie.

Here's Hugh and Nicole at the Tonys right after Nicole gave Hugh his award - she's in the background and he just went up to the mike. Notice the standing ovation starting.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/387.jpg

Jan Irisi

06-07-2006, 08:17 AM

Hugh and Nicole are great friends - when Nicole first came to the U.S. she roomed with Hugh's wife, who was living in LA at the time and hadn't met Hugh yet. Nicole was the presenter who announced his name and gave Hugh his Tony Award in 2004 at Radio City. They are also voicing "Happy Feet" and the rumor is that they are doing a duet of Prince's "Kiss" in the movie.

I still quiver when I hear that he is going to sing that song. Could be a real hoot!!! :D

danoyse

06-07-2006, 08:18 AM

And Hugh GETS TO USE HIS OWN ACCENT!

LOL!! I was thinking the same thing.

Jan Irisi

06-07-2006, 08:20 AM

LOL!! I was thinking the same thing.

Nicole too. After all this time will they need dialect coaches to find their accents again? :p

narrows101

06-07-2006, 08:23 AM

Nicole too. After all this time will they need dialect coaches to find their accents again? :p
If you ever heard Hugh speak in interviews with his real voice, the answer is NO! :)

Jan Irisi

06-07-2006, 08:27 AM

If you ever heard Hugh speak in interviews with his real voice, the answer is NO! :)

I know, (I was just joking btw) but surely it has faded over time. I know mine has, and I only live 200 miles from where I grew up. He's been around the world several times over. Nicole too.

narrows101

06-07-2006, 08:42 AM

I know, (I was just joking btw) but surely it has faded over time. I know mine has, and I only live 200 miles from where I grew up. He's been around the world several times over. Nicole too.
I know what you mean - he still has that great Aussie accent now but at least I can understand him. In his Australian movie "Paperback Hero" I could barely understand a word out of his head! This movie really sounds good - and can't wait to see Hugh as a cattle driver - wonder how similar it will be to the look of "Curly" in Oklahoma!.

Here's another good article about the new movie:

http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060607_jackman_joining_kidman_for_luh.html

>>Now that’s a better match – and someone that definitely doesn’t need a milk-crate to stand on, next to his lofty co-star.

Towering A-lister Hugh Jackman has replaced Russell Crowe in Bazz Luhrmann’s untitled romantic epic, co-starring Nicole Kidman.

The film centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across the country's most unforgiving landscape, only to face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces.

"He just continues to astound in terms of his range, whether it's 'Boy From Oz' or Wolverine," Luhrmann said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "He's always been a leading man, but he is moving toward being an iconic leading man, which is perfect for the story we're doing."

Jan Irisi

06-07-2006, 08:44 AM

....and can't wait to see Hugh as a cattle driver - wonder how similar it will be to the look of "Curly" in Oklahoma!.

Oh God...no perms!!!!!!! Chaps are ok. But no perms!!!!!

Decay

06-07-2006, 08:55 AM

OMG Hugh and family pictures are so nice!!! Gotta love him!

narrows101

06-07-2006, 09:04 AM

Here's the press release:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060606006264&newsLang=en

Hugh Jackman to Star with Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's Untitled Epic; Luhrmann's First Feature Film since Oscar-Winner ``Moulin Rouge'' to Begin Production February 2007

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2006--Hugh Jackman, just off the record-breaking success of "X-Men: The Last Stand," has agreed to star with Nicole Kidman in writer-director Baz Luhrmann's as yet untitled epic.

Jackman, one of today's most in-demand and busiest talents, chose the Luhrmann film over the myriad projects he has been offered in recent weeks. His next film set for release, Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain," is already receiving strong critical buzz. Also awaiting release for the actor are Woody Allen's "Scoop" and Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige."

Luhrmann's film, a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvass, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle.

The film begins pre-production October 2006 and production commences in Australia in February 2007. A third lead, a dark rival for the heroine's love and land, will be announced shortly.

One of the world's largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

narrows101

06-07-2006, 10:06 AM

First he was in Sydney, then Adelaide, now Melbourne.

Without the maracas, Jackman's a grounded bloke

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/without-the-maracas-jackmans-a-grounded-bloke/2006/06/07/1149359818764.html

HE LOOKS good in tights. He can carry off show tunes that are cornier than "Kansas in August". He's best known for playing a flawed, hairy anti-hero on screen and a flaming, maraca-shaking showman on Broadway. But it is as the romantic lead that Hugh Jackman is just a deep sigh of a bloke.

"We just celebrated 10 years," he says of his marriage to actress Deborra-Lee Furness. "And I know a lot of people say you need to work at your marriage … but it's never felt like that to me, to be honest.

"You can call it luck. You can call it destiny. But every idea I had of who I might end up being with was not as good as the reality of Deb." He delivers this with more easy, earnest intimacy than seems decent in a 15-minute slot in the high-churn publicity schedule for his movie ( X-Men: The Last Stand) and his show (a big-arena revival of The Boy From Oz). But a morning courting the media in home-town Melbourne is a cakewalk compared to the three-minute turnarounds of the Hollywood machine, he says.

Has love changed over 10 years? "For me, it's deepened. We remain best friends. She's someone I entrust absolutely everything to. I think the great test of a relationship is that you feel completely yourself no matter how ****ty you are feeling, no matter what mood you are in. No matter how ashamed you are of the thoughts you are having … you can share those and still feel secure.

"And there is another level. Watching your wife as a mother, you fall in love all over again," he says with an edge of surprise. Oscar is now six, and new daughter Ava is 10 months.

Jackman is famously nice. And stridently unrepentant. "I spend my life trying to be absolutely not anything other than who I am," he says. "Except, of course, the creation of your parents.

"If I was rude or an arsehole or a diva, I would still feel the heat of my father's hand bending me over his knee saying, 'Pull yourself together'."
His X-Men character Wolverine is "though at heart a good guy, not a nice one".

It's the imperfections of the anti-hero — the Dirty Harry or the Han Solo or the Mad Max, who may still save the day, but without the square-jawed attitude — that make him so appealing as an actor and to audiences, says Jackman.

According to one poll this week, the hairy mutant Wolverine is the most highly rated fictional power player, beating off not just comic-book rival Spider Man, but Harry Potter and James Bond.

About to revive his celebrated Broadway portrayal of entertainer Peter Allen in a $25 million arena extravaganza which he describes as " The Boy From Oz on steroids", Jackman is enjoying the opportunity to really call Australia, and his place on the Victorian coast, home.

The song that was the show's anthem will not have quite the resonance for him when he was singing it on Broadway, but it will still have a kick, because it's less about geography than about family.

"The way we did it in the show, (Allen) starts off singing it to his mum.
"Americans connect with that song because they understand it. They understand at one level the patriotism, and also understand very much that idea of family and of going away."

"It always tugged at me, because I was always away from my family, even though I had my wife and kids with me. My family is sort of all over the world, and you never know when they are not going to be there, right? When you're not going to be able to get on a plane and go and see them."
X-Men: The Last Stand is in cinemas. The Boy From Oz opens at the Rod Laver Arena on August 11.

danoyse

06-07-2006, 11:55 AM

Nicole too. After all this time will they need dialect coaches to find their accents again? :p

And he did have a dialect coach for "The Boy From Oz"! I read that in a Playbill when I was seeing another Broadway show. Peter Allen's was a much more 'Americanized Australian', the article said. When he was on stage playing him, he voice sounded a lot more nasal and (let's face it), a little swishier than what we're used to.

It's definitely faded a little in the last few years--but I remember watching the Tonys last year, when he was talking Christina Applegate's broken foot, we were still making jokes about needing subtitles. :p

danoyse

06-07-2006, 12:04 PM

I still quiver when I hear that he is going to sing that song. Could be a real hoot!!! :D

Haha...I saw him dancing like a lunatic while Elvis Costello played "Pump It Up" live during a 'Boy From Oz' performance...I'm ready for anything. :)

Daniella

06-07-2006, 12:23 PM

Hey... i read today that Halle wished that Hugh wasn't married and that he was kind...

Dany

narrows101

06-07-2006, 12:27 PM

And he did have a dialect coach for "The Boy From Oz"! I read that in a Playbill when I was seeing another Broadway show. Peter Allen's was a much more 'Americanized Australian', the article said. When he was on stage playing him, he voice sounded a lot more nasal and (let's face it), a little swishier than what we're used to.

It's definitely faded a little in the last few years--but I remember watching the Tonys last year, when he was talking Christina Applegate's broken foot, we were still making jokes about needing subtitles. :p
I read that about the dialect coach too - I think it's because he wanted to speak exactly the way Peter Allen spoke, which was very nasal and "swishy."

I remember watching his first movie, Paperback Hero, and practically needed subtitles - until I got used to it, I couldn't understand anything. But I think out of all the Australian actors, Hugh is the one is still pretty much has his native accent.

_BB_

06-07-2006, 01:05 PM

narrows, i bet you'll be a regular in the wolverine forum from now on eh? ;)

narrows101

06-07-2006, 01:14 PM

narrows, i bet you'll be a regular in the wolverine forum from now on eh? ;)
Well I didn't even know there was one of those! :)

It will be interesting to see where Hugh's career will be once Wolverine starts filming since he has a lot of high-profile roles this year, especially The Fountain which is generating a lot of buzz (and the word "Oscar" is in a lot of the stories).

YAVANNA

06-07-2006, 07:38 PM

hey!! hello!! when did all those new threads appear?? i'm going to be around the wolverine one quite a lot i guess......

narrows101

06-07-2006, 07:40 PM

hey!! hello!! when did all those new threads appear?? i'm going to be around the wolverine one quite a lot i guess......
There's been TONS of Hugh news in the past few days between Hugh going home to Australia and The Boy from Oz publicity and now the news on this new movie. There's thousands of pages of Google and Yahoo alerts on both of those stories!

YAVANNA

06-07-2006, 07:42 PM

yeah, and i was in madrid!! any news on a tiny possibility of having the boy from oz in london??

narrows101

06-07-2006, 07:46 PM

any news on a tiny possibility of having the boy from oz in london??
Sorry Yavanna - I doubt that very much, at least in the near future. He has too many movies to film and a return to Broadway on his plate!

YAVANNA

06-07-2006, 08:18 PM

a pity, but i'll never give up hope!!!

narrows101

06-07-2006, 08:40 PM

USS Kearsage:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/r3804157863.jpg

His look from The Fountain:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/Peoplemention6-12-06.jpg

On the beach in Australia:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Family/oscar-bondi-060406.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/JackmanBeach14.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/JackmanBeach12.jpg

With the family at a rugby game:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Family/hughjackman_narrowweb__300x6390.jpg

Ahem - a yoga pose:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Hugh/yoga.jpg

Loganbabe

06-07-2006, 11:48 PM

^ :eek: oiiiii!!!! *faints*
He looks gorgeous...I love seeing pics of Hugh with his family, they always make me happy inside! :)

CapBeerCino

06-08-2006, 02:56 PM

Was that posted?

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18938

It’s Hugh Jackman to the rescue! Proving that he doesn’t just play a superhero in the X-Men films, Hugh has manfully leapt into the void created when Russell Crowe left Baz Luhrmann’s next film.

LEX

06-08-2006, 03:04 PM

I am so jealous of Oscar. I wanna swap bodies with him, so that Hugh could be my daddy all day.

Mary

06-08-2006, 07:20 PM

LOL..must be so cool to have a dad like Hugh.

Logan Howlett

06-08-2006, 07:31 PM

Anybody know that Hugh once played Superman?

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/news-images/hugh-jackman1.jpg

RedIsNotBlue

06-08-2006, 07:33 PM

Anybody know that Hugh once played Superman?

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/news-images/hugh-jackman1.jpg

Yep that was a sketch on Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell as Jor-El I believe.

narrows101

06-08-2006, 07:36 PM

Was that posted?

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18938

I think so! I got about twenty pages of Google and Yahoo alerts on this news!!! It was all over the internet news sites yesterday. This is so exciting - Hugh and Nicole in an "Australian Gone with the Wind" - can't wait!

narrows101

06-08-2006, 07:38 PM

Yep that was a sketch on Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell as Jor-El I believe.
He did that episode of SNL in December 2001. Here are screencaps from the Superman sketch:

http://hjackman.com/shtml/tv/SNL/SNLsuperman.shtml

Logan Howlett

06-08-2006, 08:04 PM

Ya it was a great episode! I was looking for more screen caps, thanks :)

narrows101

06-08-2006, 09:02 PM

Ya it was a great episode! I was looking for more screen caps, thanks :)
That site is like the bible for anything multi-media related on Hugh, whether it be Movies, Stage, TV, you name it - they got it.

XmEnfAn

06-08-2006, 11:05 PM

out of curiostiy, do they sell the old xmen cartoon? (not evolution)

tclark10

06-09-2006, 10:32 AM

I posted this in another thread, i believe the first mutants thread? Was wondering if any of you devoted Logan fans noticed this in X1.

Quote:
Originally Posted by tclark10
I would watch X1 again, the very beginning with Magneto as a child, when he first uses his power to try and open the gate. One of the soldiers is a very young maybe late teens early 20's Logan( no beard, clean face). He's not the soldier that knocks Magneto out, but the last one you see looking at the gate. I think he had more of an expression on his face that the child Magneto was different like he was. So yes Logan might have been a Nazi or atleast a soldier at the camp. In X1 when Magneto looks at Logan's dog tags, the numbers are similar to the ones marked on Magneto's hand. Also in X2 Stryker mentions at the end that Logan did some horrible things in his past. Where he came from he would not like to remember. In X1 Jean hinted that Logan was quite possibly older than Professor, due to his healing factor.

How come you think that soldier is Logan? Has anyone else stated that he could be Wolverine?

danoyse

06-09-2006, 10:50 AM

I don't think so. The comics have said that he was at Normandy with Captain America--that wouldn't have left time for him to become a Nazi. And I think it was the Evolution cartoon that showed Wolverine as one of the soldier who actually rescued Magneto from the concentration camp. Wouldn't have made sense, either. Wolverine's bad side has always been fueled by rage--he wouldn't joined an army to let that bad side out.

Also, wasn't there another comic recently when Wolverine was imprisoned in a concentration camp? It was particularly gross--they kept killing him and he kept coming back to haunt the guards. :eek:

tclark10

06-09-2006, 11:00 AM

Sorry i forgot to mention that this was going by the movieverse. Its the very first scene in X1. He is the last soldier u see in that scene after Mags is knocked out. It looks like a younger version of Jackman. This wasnt going by the comicverse sorry.

danoyse

06-09-2006, 11:08 AM

Yeah, I know the scene. No, I don't think that's him.

They've speculated in the movie that Wolverine is likely to be older than the Professor, so he'd probably look the same during WWII as he would in X1--especially if they're setting up a spinoff series that's set to take place before X1.

And I still don't think he'd ever be a Nazi. When he did the really bad stuff as Weapon X it was because he was being controlled. And that happened long after WWII.

tclark10

06-09-2006, 11:14 AM

danoyse

06-09-2006, 11:25 AM

Still don't think so. They showed the numbers on his arm to explain to the audience that Magneto was the little boy from the opening scene.

I think Magneto was reaction to seeing Wolverine's dog tags. He knew who he was--remember in X2: "Now you think that taking in the Wolverine is going to help with your failure with Stryker's son."

They're connected somehow--but not with Wolverine as a Nazi. That just doesn't fit at all.

tclark10

06-09-2006, 11:38 AM

Damn now im really gonna have to watch that scene again, i remember the first time i had saw it i thought the one soldier would be Logan, it just looked exactly like a younger Jackman. And it made sense becuz it was the only soldier that didnt look shocked as to what the young Mags had done to the gate.

Deep Thinkin'!

06-22-2006, 01:59 AM

Bump!

narrows101

06-22-2006, 05:47 AM

Hugh was in Seoul, Taiwan and Shanghai last week promoting X-Men. I posted pictures in the picture thread on his appearances there. He's now home in Australia awaiting Nicole Kidman's wedding to Keith Urban on Sunday - my mailbox is full of alerts on this wedding since Hugh's name is in there as a guest and it's the "wedding of the year" in Australia. Monday he starts rehearsals for his Boy from Oz arena show which starts on Aug. 3.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/9021738.jpghttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/9021744.jpghttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/9021029.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/capt-1.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/HJ1160.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/XMen/71236797.jpg

danoyse

06-22-2006, 06:17 AM

Awww....I missed this thread. Thanks narrows! :)

narrows101

06-22-2006, 08:05 AM

I'll have to keep it up! :)

Here's some pictures from "Scoop" which is released in the US on July 28 (with Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/scarlett_johansson1.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_021.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_025.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_032.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_053.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/Scoop-4.jpg

The website and IMO hysterical trailer is at www.scoopmovie.net (http://www.scoopmovie.net/)

narrows101

06-22-2006, 08:08 AM

A few more:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/hugh_jackman2.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/199.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_033.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_044.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_052.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/Scoop-4.jpghttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_030.jpg

narrows101

06-22-2006, 08:19 AM

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1206875,00.html

Hugh Jackman Home for Kidman Nuptials
Thursday Jun 22, 2006 8:45am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
CREDIT: DEBRA L ROTHENBERG / FILMMAGIC

Hugh Jackman is the latest celebrity to arrive in Sydney for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding, expected to take place this Sunday.

The X-Men: The Last Stand star, a Sydney native, and wife Deborra-Lee Furness flew into the city from Shanghai Wednesday, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reports. He headed straight for the gym, responding to reporters' questions with, "Wedding? What wedding?"

Earlier in the day, longtime Kidman pal Naomi Watts arrived from New York and spent the day at the home of actor Simon Baker (Something New) and his wife.

On Wednesday, Kidman worked out with her personal trainer at her harborside mansion; throughout the day, shipments arrived of flowers, wine and groceries – including Coke, chips and Cheerios – arrived at the house.

That evening, Kidman's sister, Antonia, hosted a low-key bachelorette party for the bride-to-be. Guests included Kidman's mother Janelle, cousin Angela, publicist Wendy Day, Watts and other friends.

Urban, meanwhile, took it easy at the InterContinental hotel until the arrival of his parents, Marianne and Bob, as well as his older brother Shane, sister-in-law Jennifer and their two children. "We're very excited to be here – really looking forward to it," Marianne Urban told journalists.

Urban's bachelor party is reportedly set to take place Thursday.

Loganbabe

06-23-2006, 01:23 AM

I'll have to keep it up! :)

Here's some pictures from "Scoop" which is released in the US on July 28 (with Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_025.jpg
Hugh looks gigantic next to Woody! :O
And it´s funny how Woody made Scarlett looks like a young Mia Farrow!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/Scoop-4.jpg

Awww...love this pic!
Narrows, do you have a good picture of the Scoop poster?

Decay

06-23-2006, 06:02 AM

Hugh is a tall guy...I know he's about 1.87 m.

narrows101

06-23-2006, 09:59 AM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_025.jpg
Hugh looks gigantic next to Woody! :O
And it´s funny how Woody made Scarlett looks like a young Mia Farrow!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/Scoop-4.jpg

Awww...love this pic!
Narrows, do you have a good picture of the Scoop poster? Here's the poster:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/posterscoop.jpg

The poster is also the website:

www.scoopmovie.net (http://www.scoopmovie.net)

narrows101

06-23-2006, 10:08 AM

Here's some more:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_051.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_041.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/normal_026.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/scooptrailer02.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/Scoop-5.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/scooptrailer08.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/scooptrailer01.jpg

MaleRogue

06-23-2006, 10:12 AM

Damn he looks thiner :p..
Lol...suits him well you know

Kira

06-23-2006, 10:21 AM

Hugh looks hot. *hot*

I feel ashamed. I don't know anything about Scoop. Not a damn thing. :O

LEX

06-23-2006, 10:25 AM

Damn you, Scarlett Johansson!

I shall put poisonous snakes in her bed. :o

narrows101

06-23-2006, 10:27 AM

Damn he looks thiner :p..
Lol...suits him well you know
Looks are deceiving. Scoop started filming June 28, 2005 and after then he went right into X-Men.

narrows101

06-23-2006, 10:38 AM

Hugh looks hot. *hot*

I feel ashamed. I don't know anything about Scoop. Not a damn thing. :O
You can watch the trailer here:

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2006/STUVWXYZ/Scoop/trailer.php

Here's the synopsis - it's apparently in limited release only on July 28.
>>A contemporary comedy centering around a student journalist for a college paper (Scarlett) visiting friends in London who happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail, she finds magic, murder, mystery--and perhaps love, with a British aristocrat (Hugh).<<

Woody plays a magician. You can also see the trailer and read the synopsis on the official website. Someone on the IMDB message board saw the movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457513/board/nest/45947636

LEX

06-23-2006, 10:57 AM

narrows101

06-23-2006, 10:59 AM

I think I might see Scoop in theaters. 'Tis been a long time since I saw a small film like Scoop on the big screen. :) Plus, the plot sounds interesting.

Maybe.

Did anyone hear about Nicole Kidman's wedding? It's this Sunday in Australia at the Opera House, Sydney. All of Nicole's A-List pals are gonna be there, including Naomi Watt, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman. All the major media stations are covering it. It should be cool to watch. Lex, I don't think Scoop has a release date in Australia yet. There's also a rumor that it's going to the Venice Film Festival in August - perhaps to get more countries to sign on. According to IMDB, the release dates:

USA (http://www.superherohype.com/Recent/USA) 28 July (http://www.superherohype.com/BusinessThisDay?day=28&month=July) 2006 (http://www.superherohype.com/Sections/Years/2006/)
France (http://www.superherohype.com/Recent/France) 27 September (http://www.superherohype.com/BusinessThisDay?day=27&month=September) 2006 (http://www.superherohype.com/Sections/Years/2006/)
Netherlands (http://www.superherohype.com/Recent/Netherlands) 19 October (http://www.superherohype.com/BusinessThisDay?day=19&month=October) 2006 (http://www.superherohype.com/Sections/Years/2006/)
Italy (http://www.superherohype.com/Recent/Italy) 27 October (http://www.superherohype.com/BusinessThisDay?day=27&month=October) 2006 (http://www.superherohype.com/Sections/Years/2006/)
Spain (http://www.superherohype.com/Recent/Spain) 3 November (http://www.superherohype.com/BusinessThisDay?day=3&month=November) 2006 (http://www.superherohype.com/Sections/Years/2006/)

narrows101

06-23-2006, 11:04 AM

Did anyone hear about Nicole Kidman's wedding? It's this Sunday in Australia at the Opera House, Sydney. All of Nicole's A-List pals are gonna be there, including Naomi Watt, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman. All the major media stations are covering it. It should be cool to watch.
Oops! Didn't see this part of your post! Are you kidding me? I have thousands of Google Alerts on this wedding because Hugh is mentioned in all of them! Plus the news is on all the US entertainment stations, and I've been visiting the Nicole message board, where they are up to date on all the happenings - although I don't remember the Sydney Opera House being mentioned. She's getting married in a Catholic Church and all the famous Aussies are supposedly going - Hugh (when asked by the paparazzi, he said "wedding, what wedding?" His wife went to Nicole's "Hen Night"), Russell, director Baz Lurhmann (who is supposedly filming the wedding and is the director for Nicole and Hugh's new "Australian epic" movie shooting in February), Simon Baker, Renee Zellweger, Naomi Watts, Rupert Murdoch. It's dominating the news here too so I can only imagine how it is in Australia!

LEX

06-23-2006, 11:05 AM

*gasps*

*tears hair*

Not releasing in Australia soon? What?

*cuts wrists*

This is depressing. :( (Thanks, though.)

LEX

06-23-2006, 11:07 AM

Oops! Didn't see this part of your post! Are you kidding me? I have thousands of Google Alerts on this wedding because Hugh is mentioned in all of them! Plus the news is on all the US entertainment stations, and I've been visiting the Nicole message board, where they are up to date on all the happenings - although I don't remember the Sydney Opera House being mentioned. She's getting married in a Catholic Church and all the famous Aussies are supposedly going - Hugh (when asked by the paparazzi, he said "wedding, what wedding?" His wife went to Nicole's "Hen Night"), Russell, director Baz Lurhmann (who is supposedly filming the wedding and is the director for Nicole and Hugh's new "Australian epic" movie shooting in February), Simon Baker, Renee Zellweger, Naomi Watts, Rupert Murdoch. It's dominating the news here too so I can only imagine how it is in Australia!
Oh, sorry, not at the Opera House. Scratch that. Yeah, they're marrying at St Patrick-something Church and then having a reception at some yacht.

Yeah, this makes me really happy to be an Australian. :p It's bound to be one of the biggest weddings ever in Australia. I can't wait!

narrows101

06-23-2006, 11:12 AM

Hey Lex a question. I think you are probably too young to remember this, but I heard that when Hugh and his wife got married in 1996 that was also a big to-do since Deb was a big star at that time (Hugh was just starting out and he had been in musicals and on the TV series Corelli, where he met Deb, where she was a star, and she was a huge star in Australia back then). Do you know anything about this?

LEX

06-23-2006, 11:21 AM

I've heard that she was a huge star in the past, but no, I didn't know about it, sorry. What movies did Deb do?

narrows101

06-23-2006, 11:29 AM

I've heard that she was a huge star in the past, but no, I didn't know about it, sorry. What movies did Deb do? Oh, only about 30 of them! She's is also in "Jindabyne" which I think comes out in Australia on July 20.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299028/

Actress - filmography
(2000s (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#actress2000)) (1990s (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#actress1990)) (1980s (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#actress1980)) (1970s (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#actress1970))
Jindabyne (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0382765/) (2006)
"SeaChange" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0138785/)
- Hungi Jury (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0696879/) (2000) TV Episode .... Vicki Drury
The Real Macaw (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0166321/) (1998) .... Beth Girdis
"Roar" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0118451/)
- The Cage (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0687253/) (????) TV Episode .... Agrona
"Correlli" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0111927/) .... Louisa Correlli
- Rumours (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0546881/) (1995) TV Episode .... Louisa Correlli
- Revelations (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0546879/) (1995) TV Episode .... Louisa Correlli
- An Early Release (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0546876/) (1995) TV Episode .... Louisa Correlli
- Wishin' and Hopin' (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0546885/) (1995) TV Episode .... Louisa Correlli
- Spoons (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0546884/) (1995) TV Episode .... Louisa Correlli
(5 more (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/filmoseries#tt0111927))
Angel Baby (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0112362/) (1995) .... Louise Goodman
"Fire" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0108774/) (1995) TV Series .... Dolores Kennedy
Halifax f.p: The Feeding (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0109979/) (1994) (TV) .... Brigit Grant
Stark (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0108215/) (1993) (TV) .... Chrissie
Singapore Sling (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0108140/) (1993) (TV) .... Annie
Newsies (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0104990/) (1992) .... Esther Jacobs
... aka Newsboys
Waiting (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0103231/) (1991) .... Diane
Homo Faber (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0102050/) (1991) .... Ivy
... aka The Voyager (France)
... aka Voyager (USA)
The Last of the Finest (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0099991/) (1990) .... Linda Daly
... aka Blue Heat (UK)
... aka Street Legal
A Cry in the Dark (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0094924/) (1988) .... Magazine reporter
... aka Evil Angels (Australia)
Act of Betrayal (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0094611/) (1988) (TV) .... Kathy
Two Brothers Running (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0096322/) (1988) .... Silver's Secretary
Celia (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0094849/) (1988) .... Miss Greenway
"Falcon Crest" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0081858/)
- New Faces (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0575976/) (1987) TV Episode
A Matter of Convenience (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0093511/) (1987) (TV) .... Valma
Shame (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0093952/) (1987) .... Asta Cadell
The Bit Part (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0092662/) (1987) .... Acting Teacher
Cool Change (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0090876/) (1986) .... Lee
Jenny Kissed Me (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0091289/) (1986) .... Carol Grey
The Humpty Dumpty Man (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0091234/) (1986) .... Carmel DeVries
"Neighbours" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0088580/) (1985) TV Series .... Linda Fielding (1985)
Crossover Dreams (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0088968/) (1985)
Glass Babies (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0235429/) (1985) (TV) .... Joan Simpson
"The Flying Doctors" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0088518/) (1985) (mini) TV Series (as Debra-Lee Furness) .... Fran
"Kings" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0085796/) (1983) TV Series
"Prisoner" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0077064/)
... aka Caged Women (Canada: English title)
... aka Prisoner: Cell Block H (UK)
- Episode #1.35 (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0678762/) (1979) TV Episode .... Connie
- Episode #1.76 (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0679146/) (1979) TV Episode .... Connie
"Division 4" (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0064238/)
- The Human Factor (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0561867/) (1975) TV Episode (as Debora-Lee Furness) .... Junior 1 Filmography as: Actress (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#actress), Director (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#director), Writer (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#writer), Miscellaneous Crew (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#miscellaneousX20crew), Casting Director (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#castingX20director), Herself (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/#herself)
Director - filmography
Stories of Lost Souls (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0462721/) (2005) (segment "Standing Room Only")
Standing Room Only (http://www.superherohype.com/title/tt0185704/) (2004/I)

LEX

06-23-2006, 11:31 AM

Hey, I've been to Jindabyne. Beautiful place. ;)

Nope. I've never heard of those films.

narrows101

06-23-2006, 11:44 AM

Back to Scoop - here's the one-sheet:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Scoop/scooponesheet.jpg

LEX

06-23-2006, 11:52 AM

It now becomes my new wallpaper. :)

*stares at Hugh dreamily*

*draws a moustache and horns on Scarlett*

narrows101

06-23-2006, 12:13 PM

*draws a moustache and horns on Scarlett*
What are you going to do when The Prestige comes out in October? Scarlett is in that one too! Speaking of which, I wish we would get SOMETHING on that movie!!!! This is as bad as The Fountain with info! Busy October and November for Hugh:

Oct. 13 - The Fountain
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/Fountain-Paperback.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/2996ab5e.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/5fb2edfb.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/8d8fa2b3.jpg

Oct. 27 - The Prestige

Nov. 3 - Flushed Away
http://www.flushedaway.com
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Flushed%20Away/89a08991.jpg

Nov. 27 - Happy Feet
http://www2.warnerbros.com/happyfeet
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Happy%20Feet/3d620ea3.jpg

narrows101

06-23-2006, 01:05 PM

Back to Scoop - are you in a "top 100" market?

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/06/scoop_debut.php

>>There was a slight rigamarole in late April (or was it early May?) when Variety reported that Woody Allen's Scoop would be released in the late summer and one of my Focus Features pallies kept saying, "That's news to us." Anyway, it's official: Allen's comedy, a London-based runaround about a young reporter (Scarlett Johansson) and an older, somewhat suspicious man of wealth and schwing (Hugh Jackman), will open on 7.28 in the top 100 markets, at a running time of 96 minutes.

Sub-Zero

06-23-2006, 03:25 PM

scoop looks like a the prestige reunion. where's the one-sheet for that?

Sub-Zero

06-23-2006, 03:33 PM

I dont know ill watch it again sometime this weekend, or maybe if i can find a site with that first clip from X1 i can watch it here at work. It would make sense for Singer to try and throw that in there as the soldier being Logan. Plus remember the part where Mags looks at Logans dog tags, he looks at the numbers that are branded on his arm from the camp, as if the numbers on the dog tag were similar.

you guys are thinking too much about that scene. i think it was only there to make the audience think that mags was after wolverine and not rogue. bryan singer is all about twists in his movies. i'm pretty sure it was meaningless.

and for the person who mentioned the x-evo. episode where logan meets young mags, i wouldn't go by anything they did in that show . the art/animation was pretty good, but besides that it was pretty dumb.

i read somewhere that sabretooth would be in the wolverine movie and everyone on the first x-men thought that the wolvie/sabre relationship could've been expanded. to me it looked like sabretooth remembered everything about wolverine.

narrows101

06-23-2006, 03:38 PM

scoop looks like a the prestige reunion. where's the one-sheet for that?
Actually it's the other way around since Scoop was filmed first. Nothing has been released on The Prestige yet!

Sub-Zero

06-23-2006, 03:39 PM

ah. my bad. thanks for the heads up. :up:

danoyse

06-23-2006, 04:37 PM

[QUOTE=narrows101]Oct. 13 - The Fountain
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain
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Wow...where'd you find that image? That's really cool.

Also, it's possible X3 will be out on DVD in October. He'll be everywhere! :)

It will be fun with my boss, who's convinced he hasn't worked a day since the Broadway show ended. :mad:

danoyse

06-23-2006, 04:39 PM

narrows101

06-23-2006, 06:01 PM

[quote=narrows101]Oct. 13 - The Fountain
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/Fountain-Paperback.jpg

Wow...where'd you find that image? That's really cool.

Also, it's possible X3 will be out on DVD in October. He'll be everywhere! :)

It will be fun with my boss, who's convinced he hasn't worked a day since the Broadway show ended. :mad:

I forget where I found it - it's fan created, taking images from the trailer.

The Fountain is in this week's Entertainment Weekly (Jessica Alba on the cover) with a new picture of Hugh and Rachel in the "past" with Darren giving them direction. There are four lines pointing to things in the picture and they say this, quoting Darren:

First one:
I'm pointing at the main doors that open the chamber and let in the white light, which is the theme of the film - namely, Hugh searching for the truth, searchfing for the light. Here, I'm working with the actors, telling them that's where the light is going to be comeing from. Behind me is a wardrobe person.

Second one:
It's kind of a tradition that I don't shave while shooting. It started with Pi because I was concerned that we wouln't have enough actors to play the Hasidic tough guys so I grew my beard and mustache just in case I needed to stand in myself at the last minute. Here it's probably about halfway through the shoot. By the end I had a huge beard and mustache and a huge afro.

Third one:
"Hugh was not on my [original casting] list because I didn't really know what he could do. But then I saw The Boy From Oz and was blown away by his performance. Even though that character had nothing to do with what we were doing, he had so much charisma. After I cast him, we would get together to rehearse while he was still on stage, kicking higher than me, you or Grandma."

Last one:
The set is modeled after the Great Museum of Cordoba in Spain. The concept was that the mosque has all these arches that stretch off into infinity and that worked for us because we were trying to connect the 15th century to deep space and wew wanted to create a place on earth that mirrored that infinity. Then we hung little oil lamps all over the place to mimic stars in space.

danoyse

06-23-2006, 07:23 PM

Of course, my Entertainment Weekly didn't show up in the mail today like it usually does. :mad:

So I guess it's safe to say the publicity for "The Fountain" is starting. :up:

Deep Thinkin'!

06-24-2006, 01:33 AM

It now becomes my new wallpaper. :)

*stares at Hugh dreamily*

*draws a moustache and horns on Scarlett*

ooooh, I totally agree.

*envies Scarlett*

Farren

06-24-2006, 02:55 AM

Oh I am SOOO excited for The Fountain!

narrows101

06-24-2006, 08:38 AM

Here's the picture from Entertainment Weekly:

Actual picture:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/fountain8.jpg

Just Hugh and Rachel:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/The%20Fountain/Fountain13.jpg

Deep Thinkin'!

06-24-2006, 02:51 PM

Oh I am SOOO excited for The Fountain!

oh i hear ya! Just wait till Wolverine comes out! We'll all be bouncing off the walls ........ well, i know i'll be. :D

narrows101

06-24-2006, 07:14 PM

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narrows101

06-24-2006, 07:17 PM

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Retroman

06-25-2006, 05:25 AM

Awesome pics from the Fountain!

I just heard on CNN that Hugh was at Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding. Apparently he sung a song for the bride and groom.

Retroman

06-25-2006, 05:31 AM

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Actor Hugh Jackman arrives at St Patrick's College for the wedding of musician Keith Urban and actress Nicole Kidman on June 25, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Paul McConnell/Getty Images)

Source: Getty Images

Decay

06-25-2006, 05:41 AM

^ OMG! I've seen that on tv today! I mean Hugh going on Nicole's wedding.

LEX

06-25-2006, 06:17 AM

Damn it.

I missed the whole thing. :down

narrows101

06-25-2006, 06:55 AM

narrows101

06-25-2006, 06:58 AM

Awesome pics from the Fountain!

I just heard on CNN that Hugh was at Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding. Apparently he sung a song for the bride and groom.
Since I have Hugh's name in my "Google" alerts, for the past week I've had PAGES AND PAGES of news on this wedding since Hugh's name is mentioned in all of them since he was a guest! He was also reportedly at Urban's bachelor party (or whatever they call it in Australia - stag party?) and Deb was at Nicole's bachelorette party ("hen night").

Hugh, Deb and Nicole are good friends. Deb used to live in LA before she met Hugh (she was also an actress) and when Nicole first came to LA she stayed with Deb for a bit. And Nicole presented Hugh with his Tony Award in 2004.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/2004%20Tonys/001.jpg

Retroman

06-25-2006, 07:38 AM

^^Thanks for the info.Didn't know that they knew each other so long.

Kira

06-25-2006, 09:09 AM

Hugh sang Peter Allen's song "Tenterfield Saddler" at Nicole's wedding.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/_41808892_jackman_getty-1.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/2275ih.jpg

Singing. Aww... Hugh. That is *so* nice.

And off topic: Oh, Nicole. What is that thing you are wearing?! If it were pink; it would be some poor girls prom dress from the 80's. :(

danoyse

06-25-2006, 10:32 AM

Awww...and he does weddings too! :)

That's really sweet. I love that song...it was cut from the Broadway version of the show, but it's one of my favorite songs on the cast album.

_BB_

06-25-2006, 10:40 AM

Stunning

and nicoles dress is nice too ;)

LEX

06-25-2006, 10:42 AM

Hugh sang Peter Allen's song "Tenterfield Saddler" at Nicole's wedding.

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Hugh = wedding singer

How cute. :)

God I envy Nicole. What perfect life.

Kira

06-25-2006, 10:49 AM

Hugh = wedding singer

How cute. :)

God I envy Nicole. What perfect life.

Dude. She was married with Tom Cruise. For ten years. :(

LEX

06-25-2006, 10:57 AM

Dude. She was married with Tom Cruise. For ten years. :(
Crap. How could I forget that? Sick.

I don't envy Nicole anymore. :o

narrows101

06-25-2006, 01:56 PM

Crap. How could I forget that? Sick.

I don't envy Nicole anymore. :o
Nicole was able to get married in a Catholic ceremony because her marriage to Cruise was annulled in 2001. When she married him they had a private Scientology wedding in Colorado, and the church doesn't recognize that so that's how she was able to get the annulment. Also this was such a big deal since I don't think any of her family were at the first wedding so this is sort of like the first one for all of them.

narrows101

06-25-2006, 02:13 PM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/image1749393.jpg

Either coming from or going to the wedding!

bruja_escarlata

06-25-2006, 02:16 PM

nice pics...Hugh looks great and nicole´s dress is beautiful...she has taste (Ok, not thinking on Tom....but she has taste chosing dresses)

danoyse

06-25-2006, 03:07 PM

Either coming from or going to the wedding!

Or possibly during the U-turn:

Australian movie star Hugh Jackman was the first guest to arrive, though his black European sedan almost missed the entrance. The car stopped and reversed back to enter the venue.

Found that on one of the AOL news sites. LOL. :p

narrows101

06-25-2006, 03:22 PM

I saw that one - I have thousands of alerts and most of them say pretty much the same thing with a new thing here and there. Here's a new one:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/06/...341.html?page=2 (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/06/25/1151174072341.html?page=2)

>>At 4.30pm X-Men star Hugh Jackman arrived at the chapel with wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Confirming his reputation as Hollywood's Mr Nice, Jackman was one of the few guests to wind down his window and acknowledge the crowd.

Jackman sang Peter Allen's hit Tenterfield Saddler after the service in front of an estimated 230 guests.

narrows101

06-26-2006, 01:17 PM

Here's some more stories on the wedding:

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19601441-5001025,00.html

Crowe looked miffed, Jackman played for laughs

June 27, 2006

RUSSELL Crowe was not a happy chappy when, after arriving late with wife Danielle Spencer to the church, was forced to sit on the groom's side rather than the bride's.

He then reportedly spent the best part of the ceremony vigorously chewing gum.

"He seemed either miffed he didn't have a special seat or because he wasn't on Nic's side of the church," one guest told Confidential.

On the flip side, Boy From Oz Hugh Jackman scored the gong for gag of the night.

Remarking on Kidman's huge celeb status, Jackman joked he, wife Deborra-Lee Furness, Russell and Danielle had all gone skinny dipping in the absence of any paparazzi.

"Thank you Nicole, it's because of you that there wasn't one photographer out to catch us," Jackman joked.

Guests also commented on Jackman's obvious love and affection for his wife Deb.

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19599234%255E31624,00.html

Urban legends

WITH Sunday's fairytale wedding of Keyhole (that's Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban) over, reports of exactly how romantic and memorable it was have started to surface.

At the reception, fairytale mixed with Moulin Rouge, with chandeliers and red backdrops. On each table sat plain white crockery, stainless steel cutlery and a bonboneria of a blue Tiffany and Co box. Inside were Tiffany desk clocks, inscribed with: "A moment in time, 25th June 2006, Nicole and Keith." The clocks are thought to be valued at $512 each - meaning the generous couple forked out almost $100,000 for the gifts.

Kicking off proceedings to a roaring cheer, the bride and groom were introduced as "Mr and Mrs Keith Urban." As entrees were served Hugh Jackman performed the Boy from Oz hit Tenterfield Saddler.

"Thanks a lot," said former Crowded house frontman Neil Finn who complained he had to follow such a great performance when he sang the ballard Fall at Your Feet. Then came "the absolute highlight" with the groom singing Making Memories of Us to his teary bride.

There is also talk that Russell Crowe was not happy when, after arriving late with wife Danielle Spencer to the church, was forced to sit on the groom's side. He reportedly spent the best part of the ceremony vigorously chewing gum.

http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,19590186-7485,00.html

NICOLE Kidman and Keith Urban wed in Sydney last night in a romantic twilight ceremony - completing the latest chapter in their fairytale romance.

Wearing an ivory gown, the Oscar-winning Australian actress was glowing as she exchanged vows with country crooner Urban in the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel at the St Patrick's estate at the cliff top at Manly shortly after 5pm.
Earlier, the famous bride had been greeted by thousands of fans who came from across the state and around the world to line the streets as the wedding party arrived.

Kidman, was accompanied down the aisle by her father Antony. At 6.25pm the church bells rang to indicate the couple were married.

The Hollywood star, 39, walked down the aisle accompanied by her father Antony, with her bridesmaids - who were also wearing Balenciaga - her sister Antonia as matron of honour, her 13-year-old daughter Isabella as bridesmaid and her niece Lucia as flower girl.

She was met at the altar by Urban, 38, who wore a simple black suit teamed with black tie, and his groomsmen his brother Shane, good friend Marlon Holden and his nephew Blake.

Clutching a simple posy of white roses dotted with tiny red blooms, the bride was joined by her father Dr Kidman in a vintage white Rolls Royce.
The bride was said to be overwhelmed by the show of public support and cried in the car as well as throughout the ceremony.

It was a scene reminiscent of royal visits, with fans lining both sides of the street with cameras, as police officers and private security guards kept order.

With an Aussie-theme throughout, Hugh Jackman was accompanied by the choir who sang Peter Allen's classic Tenterfield Saddler during the ceremony, and former Crowded House frontman Neil Finn also sang a song.

About 230 family and friends including Naomi Watts, Jackman's wife Deborra-Lee Furness, director Baz Luhrmann, Russell Crowe, News Corp chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng, and Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch attended the service which was presided over by Father Paul Coleman.

Thrilling onlookers as she arrived at the gates of the church by police escort, Kidman wound down her window to wave at fans and thank the cheering crowd.

Fans screamed and some cried as the bride drove by with Kidman offering the crowds a good look at her by putting on the inside car light as night fell.
"It's very simple, there's no big operation - she's just like you, me or any other bride," Kidman's spokesperson Wendy Day said.

"She didn't want anything strange or odd or underhand about this, no black umbrellas or tinted windows."

Earlier, Kidman's Darling Point neighbours emerged from their homes, some climbing on to the rooftops, to send her on her way to married life.
Some fans had been at the estate, which is surrounded by a high sandstone wall, since early yesterday morning.

Wedding bells chimed at 6.25pm signalling the couple had become husband and wife.

Soft jazz music was played straight after the wedding bells while guests were served h'or d'eouves and champagne in a specially constructed marquee adjoining the church.

At 7.10pm a huge cheer went up from the crowd after being introduced to the guests as husband and wife.

The reception is believed to have had a Moulin Rouge-style theme with guests eating tuna as part of entree, a choice of Tasmanian atlantic salmon or lamb for main. A raspberry and mascarpone dessert was for desert.
Walking from their hotel lobby prior to the ceremony the groom's parents Bob and Marienne were full of compliments for their new daughter-in-law.
"She's going to be a beautiful daughter-in-law," Mrs Urban announced as she happily posed for a photo with her husband.

"They are absolutely perfect together," Urban's former US manager Anastasia Brown said. "Keith and I go back to 1994, I've never seen him this happy."

Deep Thinkin'!

06-26-2006, 11:45 PM

um.... about the movie flushed away, which character does Hugh act as? Is he the main character? I'm not entirely sure......

danoyse

06-27-2006, 06:22 AM

He plays Roddy in "Flushed Away".

And Ian McKellan plays the bad guy. Sound familiar?? :)

narrows101

06-27-2006, 09:34 AM

um.... about the movie flushed away, which character does Hugh act as? Is he the main character? I'm not entirely sure......
Yes, Hugh is the main character "Roddy St. James". Ian is "Toad".

You can view the trailer and a "making of" featurette at the website:

http://www.flushedaway.com

From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the Oscar®-winning hit “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” comes the computer-animated comedy “Flushed Away.” Blending Aardman’s trademark style and characterizations with DreamWorks’ state-of-the-art computer animation, “Flushed Away” is a madcap comedy set on and beneath the streets of London.

Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust “society mouse” who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he’s hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the “whirlpool.” Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he’s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad—who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats—wants them iced…literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin—that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.

“Flushed Away” stars the voices of Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman (Broadway’s “The Boy From Oz,” the “X-Men” film franchise) as Roddy; four-time Oscar® nominee Kate Winslet (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Iris,” “Titanic,” “Sense and Sensibility”) as Rita; two-time Oscar® nominee Ian McKellen (“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” “Gods and Monsters”) as the Toad; Andy Serkis (“King Kong,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”) and Bill Nighy (“Love Actually”) as Spike and Whitey; Shane Richie (“Shoreditch”) as Syd; and Jean Reno (“The Tiger and the Snow”) as Le Frog.

“Flushed Away” is being directed by Sam Fell and David Bowers, and produced by Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Cecil Kramer.

SCOTT&JEAN

06-27-2006, 01:30 PM

Source: Hellomagazine.com

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Father-of-two Hugh Jackman topped our online poll for best celebrity dad. The Aussie superstar adores his parenting role and describes the love he has for kids Oscar and Ava as "mind-blowing"

HUGH VOTED BEST DAD IN OUR ONLINE POLL

27 JUNE 2006

Hugh Jackman is used to reaping awards for his cinematic exploits but it would seem his fans not only admire the 37-year-old's on-screen skills, but his parenting abilities, too. The Aussie actor has been voted best celebrity dad in our online poll, beating other A-list fathers including Will Smith and Tom Cruise to take pole position.

The doting dad won 28 per cent of the votes, narrowly beating Johnny Depp who walked away with 26 per cent of the total count. Hugh, who has two adopted kids Oscar, five, and baby girl Ava, describes parenthood as a "privilege". Despite playing tough, muscle-bound Wolverine in the X-Men trilogy, the actor happily admits that his daughter turns him to "mush".

Child-at-heart Johnny Depp came a close second after showing his devotion to kids Jack and Lily-Rose. Gaining double the number of votes over fourth-placed Bob Geldof, the former Hollywood rebel now admits to being a homebody who loves nothing more than hanging out with his family. Men In Black star Will Smith, who is the perfect father according to wife Jada Pinkett Smith, came third, while fellow actors Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx took fifth, sixth and seventh places.

narrows101

06-27-2006, 01:58 PM

I love seeing Hugh play dad! I just read an interview he did where he said on the X3 set they put Oscar in the harnesses and he went flying just like dad, and Hugh thought "my dad was just an accountant!!!"

On another subject, there was another screening of The Fountain last night from someone on IMDB who saw it:

>>I just got out of a screening for the film. I don't know exactly what to say beyond the fact that it was brilliant. Aronofsky's genius is not simply in his grand and sometimes overwhelming decisions, but also lies in the smaller and more subtle ones. I don't want to give any of these decisions away, as the magic in watching the film comes from not knowing exactly what is going on. No doubt countless people will say that the film is like a puzzle, but this description does not quite fit in the same way it doesn't for 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is because a puzzle implies a goal or solution, whereas the game of these films has no real end. The solution is the puzzle if you will. Yes the film is surreal, and it does draw upon the metaphysical, but unlike so many films that also fit this description one never feels bored watching it. One can, if they are so inclined, sit back and watch The Fountain simply as a visual masterpiece.

I don't know if this film will connect with the masses. They are probably going to request a PG-13, which they will not get unless they trim some of the gore, which is not prevalent, but definitely exists. Of the seven or eight other people I saw it with no one had a negative reaction, but some were less awed than me. It is definitely hard to follow, and not so much in that "Who is that" Syriana hard to follow. More in the "what the hell does that mean" form. I would suggest that everyone sees this movie. Some will not be comfortable in being lost, but don't worry, this is the type of film you can enjoy very much while at the same time not completely understanding. I hope desperately that people go out and see this movie by the millions. This is the type of interesting self reflexive film that Hollywood needs more of. And bravo to Warner Bros. for taking a chance of this one. It really works.

Any information about story would be a spoiler, but as far as the acting goes anyone who saw Boy from Oz on Broadway won't be surprised by Hugh Jackman at all, but for everyone else whose only experiences are the x-men franchises and swordfish be prepared to be blown away. Hugh Jackman really shows his range and really gives a powerful performance. It is doubly impressice considering if he didn't believe it all the way it could have come across as silly. Jackman's ability to believe in the material makes the film work in a way I don' t think it would have had Pitt stayed with the project.

As far a Rachel Weisz she's great, but that's no surprise. She's always great and she's working with her husband, so I'm guess they already have a shorthand. The rest of the cast is fine considering how little they are in it. This really is a film about two people and Ellen Burstyn feels a little underused. Not that they should have pumped up her part, it wouldn't have worked for the film.

One more thing you'll should look out for is the beautiful use of visual symmetry, especially when aronofsky moves the camera. I was going to say I haven't seen anything like it since Kurbrick, but you know what? I'm not sure I ever saw it this much in Kubrick, and especially not when Kurbrick was a in his early career. This is a film that will no doubt solidify Aronofsky as one of out great directors.