Official Hugh Jackman Appreciation Thread.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Yeah I saw an interview with Hugh he said both....... it's hard with a friend, but it's also a little bit less strange cause you're not a stranger with the person.

gotta find that interview somewhere :S

[narrows101]

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

Yeah I saw an interview with Hugh he said both....... it's hard with a friend, but it's also a little bit less strange cause you're not a stranger with the person.

gotta find that interview somewhere :S


I'm wrong........ heard him incorrectly. He did say that it's not as strange WITH a stranger.. :p

[squeekness]

I suppose a person does better with detatchment. It would be harder with someone you're friends with... and perhaps a little dangerous. :(

[cptjack]

The Wolverine movie is going to be awesome!

[Hunter Rider]

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[elgaz]

I always thought Jackman had some Clint Eastwood vibes going on, he reminds me of a younger version of him. If they ever remake Dirty Harry, he's the man for the job

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[narrows101]

Hugh likes to tell a story that early in his career he was at some event where he was standing on line and he was in front of Eastwood. He turned around and introduced himself and said something like "some people say we resemble each other." To which Eastwood replied: "you're holding up the line, kid."

Some who went to the recent test screening of Hugh's next movie AUSTRALIA said they heard quite a few people in the audience say that he looked just like Eastwood at some parts in the movie.

[Hunter Rider]

Full Empire Article on Australia (http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=15442764&postcount=100)

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[Raiden]

I always thought Jackman had some Clint Eastwood vibes going on, he reminds me of a younger version of him. If they ever remake Dirty Harry, he's the man for the job

http://i34.tinypic.com/2iw38cj.jpg

http://racehogan.homestead.com/files/Clint_Eastwood-1-A.gif

I also think they have some strong resemblance with one another. With western on the verge of coming back (thanks to 3:10 to Yuma's success), we might see remakes of Eastwood's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Jackman will be the right man for the job.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Anyone have any new news or pics from Australia or Wolverine?? :p

[Hunter Rider]

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

Awww thanks Hunter.......
:D Put a smile on my face :D
those are a little different than other pictures I've seen already........

[Nightmare]

Awww thanks Hunter.......
:D Put a smile on my face :D
those are a little different than other pictures I've seen already........

Sarcasm at its finest.

[strikezone89]

nice pics hunter... when does that movie come out?

[Bad Supe's Girl]

nice pics hunter... when does that movie come out?
November 14, 2008 :D

[narrows101]

An article about Hugh in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07barnes.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



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A Wolverine Finds His Romantic Side
20th Century Fox

Hugh Jackman is a rugged drover wooing Nicole Kidman in the romance “Australia.”
By BROOKS BARNES
Published: September 4, 2008

HUGH JACKMAN is a big, macho movie star. Got it?

In talking up Mr. Jackman in advance of “Australia,” his coming romantic epic, three executives at 20th Century Fox all described the actor as a “rough-hewn” throwback to Hollywood’s classic leading-man types, a “young Clint Eastwood.”

Baz Luhrmann, the director of “Australia,” which co-stars Nicole Kidman as an aristocratic cattle owner, also talked up Mr. Jackman’s manliness. “There are not many actors who have an ability to pick up a Nicole Kidman, throw her on the bed and ravish her with believability,” Mr. Luhrmann said.

Perhaps feeling that description was not vivid enough, Mr. Luhrmann added, “He is also excellent with a cattle whip.”

Here’s what Mr. Jackman’s bosses and colleagues are trying to say: Mr. Jackman, 39, is on the verge of megastardom, the kind that comes with Oscar nominations and demands for script approval. But to join the short A-list of male movie stars he must move past all that girly singing and dancing stuff on his résumé.

In Hollywood, where typecasting remains very much a force, Mr. Jackman retains a slight stigma. Isn’t he the guy who won a Tony Award for playing a flamboyant gay songwriter in “The Boy From Oz” on Broadway? Didn’t he host the Tony Awards for three years running? And didn’t he also produce and star in “Viva Laughlin,” that campy CBS musical series that bombed last year?

With “Australia,” which Fox plans to release on Nov. 26 in North America, Mr. Jackman will get the chance to prove that he can play a big-time romantic lead in a big-time movie. And with any luck, the film will be part of a one-two punch erasing any lingering worries about his ability to open a movie. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” in which he reprises his “X-Men” role as a hirsute mutant in need of a nail file, opens on May 1.

“I think it will surprise people,” Mr. Jackman said of his performance in “Australia” during an interview on the Fox lot. “I’m never that worried about positioning myself, and I don’t like labels personally or professionally. But this is definitely the straight-down-the-line, classic, old-school leading-man role I’ve been waiting for.”

Mr. Jackman was not Mr. Luhrmann’s first choice. Mr. Luhrmann intended for Russell Crowe to play the character, a brooding drover with no name who helps Ms. Kidman’s aristocrat drive cattle across a barren homestead during World War II. But Mr. Crowe and Fox sparred over money. (At the time the combative actor fumed to a reporter, “I do charity work, but I don’t do charity work for major studios.”)

Mr. Luhrmann, the director of critical darlings like “Moulin Rouge!” “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” and “Strictly Ballroom,” said Mr. Jackman was initially under consideration for the smaller role of a greedy land manager. “I was keen to have Hugh in the film, but I didn’t immediately see him as the drover,” Mr. Luhrmann said, adding that Fox worried about Mr. Jackman’s marketability.

Fox grew more comfortable with Mr. Jackman’s star status after “X-Men: The Last Stand” opened in 2006 with strong results (it ended up making more than $450 million worldwide), and Mr. Luhrmann had become impressed with Mr. Jackman’s gung-ho attitude. Ms. Kidman, a friend of Mr. Jackman’s wife, the Australian actress Deborah-Lee Furness, gave her approval at a party in Los Angeles.

“Nicole came bounding in and said she heard I was talking to Baz,” Mr. Jackman recalled. “I said: ‘Yes, I’m very excited. But I haven’t yet seen a script. Tell me, what is it like?’ And she responded: ‘Oh, I haven’t read the script. It’s Baz. Just sign on.’ ”

Not long after, Mr. Jackman found himself enduring intense horse training in Texas. For the role he would need not only to woo Ms. Kidman’s character, who inherits an enormous cattle ranch in a remote part of Australia, but also to ride herd over 2,000 cattle and rope horses. In one scene he would need to jump off his horse and grab a stampeding cow by the tail. Another scene called for him to stand in the center of a corral and lasso a wild horse.

Mr. Jackman played down the rigor required by most of the wrangling work. But even he was impressed with the lassoing. “The horse went ballistic when I got that rope around his neck,” he said. “My gloves ripped, the rope peeled skin off my hands. I just remember being so happy that I did it that I didn’t care at all.”

Filming took place in Australia’s barren Northern Territory. (In the film Ms. Kidman’s character owns a sprawling desert property near Darwin, a small Australian city bombed by the Japanese during World War II.) The shoot came with dust storms, scorpions and, down the side of a cliff from Mr. Jackman’s trailer, a lagoon slithering with crocodiles. The shoot lasted 157 days in total, an epic period even for an epic drama.

“I almost fainted on the first day,” Mr. Jackman said. “Incredibly hot, incredibly remote.”

It was a long way from his days starting out in musical theater in Sydney, a time when he worked as a part-time clown at children’s parties. (In another job around that time, a pre-muscled Mr. Jackman was paid to stand in the lobby of a local gym as the “before” model.)

One early role came from the Sydney production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” He played the prince. He went on to a starring role in a local tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” and eventually landed the role of Curly in an acclaimed London revival of “Oklahoma!” in 1998.

During that production, a permed Mr. Jackman had his first professional encounter with Mr. Luhrmann. It didn’t go well: he auditioned for the romantic lead in “Moulin Rouge” and was passed over for Ewan McGregor.

Mr. Jackman came out O.K., though. During the same time, he was a backup choice for the Wolverine character in “X-Men” and got the part after the original actor, Dougray Scott, backed out because of a conflicting film commitment. Aside from the “X-Men” movies, Mr. Jackman’s movie career has mostly included films that missed expectations, including “The Prestige.” Whether “Australia” will work is unclear. Fox hopes it will be an Oscar force, and the footage is lavish. Mr. Luhrmann said he was influenced by sweeping classics like “Gone With the Wind,” “The African Queen” and “Out of Africa,” which Mr. Jackman says is one of his favorite films.

But the film is commercially risky. Historical epics can be a tough sell, as “Troy,” “Kingdom of Heaven” and “King Arthur” have recently proved to the studios’ dismay. And Ms. Kidman’s recent track record at the box office (“The Stepford Wives,” “Bewitched,” “The Invasion,” “The Golden Compass”) has been scanty. (The film also represents a big departure for Mr. Luhrmann, who has developed a passionate following for his colorful visual style, which often places characters in over-the-top worlds bordering on fantasy. But “Australia” is darker and more realistic looking, and includes a subplot about the government’s forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families.)

Mr. Jackman always has a backup in “Wolverine.” Judging from his reception in July at Comic-Con, the huge comic book and movie marketing convention, the action film will be a blockbuster. More than 6,500 fans at Comic-Con greeted him like a deity when he made a surprise appearance to plug the movie. People were screaming and chanting; one woman burst into tears. “It was my little rock-star moment,” Mr. Jackman said.

People who work with Mr. Jackman gush about him, too, to the degree that one starts to wonder just how badly other stars are behaving. “He is the most centered, incredibly focused actor I’ve ever worked with,” Mr. Luhrmann said. “I know everybody always says that in Hollywood, but I really mean it.”

Nina Tassler, the president for entertainment at CBS, said she had no regrets about “Viva Laughlin” because of Mr. Jackman’s involvement. “Working with him was one of the highlights of my entire life,” she said. Mr. Jackman, she added, was intimately involved in aspects of the project like script writing and marketing — rare for movie stars moonlighting in television — and said she found him humble and unassuming, an opinion echoed by others.

In wielding his charm, Mr. Jackman, whose offices on the Fox lot are located in Shirley Temple’s former dance studio and who watches “Judge Judy” in his spare time, likes to use humor. “You can’t cut my hair or my beard — but you can trim my nose hair if you like,” he said to a stylist readying him for a photo shoot.

And his looks — five appearances on People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful” list and counting — don’t hurt his bankability either, as the director Bryan Singer, who hired Mr. Jackman for “X-Men,” helpfully pointed out in an interview.

As for that “rough-hewn” label? “That’s studio-speak for a lot of chest hair,” Mr. Singer said.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Thanks Narrows ;):up:

[narrows101]

Hugh and Oscar:

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Hugh and Ava:

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/09/hugh-jackman-av.html

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

Awww He's so adorable and so are the kids :p

[squeekness]

Oscar's getting big, lol. :p They grow up so fast....

[p4poetic]

Great pictures.

Stupid question, but is Wolverine ever going to wear this outfit in the spin off movie?

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[Compi716]

I always thought Jackman had some Clint Eastwood vibes going on, he reminds me of a younger version of him. If they ever remake Dirty Harry, he's the man for the job

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Ever since X-Men I've always felt that Jackman had the Clint thing down.

Which only makes him more awesome in my book.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Great pictures.

Stupid question, but is Wolverine ever going to wear this outfit in the spin off movie?

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That's a good question........ I have no idea if he'll be in any of the spandex costumes or if he'll have a mask or not.

Does anyone have any information on this?

[Johann Schmidtt]

Hello Calvin! Courtesty flickr.com.

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I have a feeling that "Wolverine" will be awesome and beyond:word:

[Johann Schmidtt]

I always thought Jackman had some Clint Eastwood vibes going on, he reminds me of a younger version of him. If they ever remake Dirty Harry, he's the man for the job

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Wow! The resemblance is amazing. They look so much alike indeed.

[Goten]

Words cannot describe how awesome ths guy is :D

[Jack Bauer]

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HOLY ****! The eyes move!

[Goten]

Holy crap!

I just noticed hat!

[danoyse]

That's a good question........ I have no idea if he'll be in any of the spandex costumes or if he'll have a mask or not.

Does anyone have any information on this?

All signs point to no, if the Comic-Con footage was any indication.

[narrows101]

MEN'S JOURNAL profile of Hugh:

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You Don't Know Jackman
Thu, Sep 25, 2008

He’ll tell you he “just fluked it,” that he’s just plain lucky, that his remarkable range is simply an Aussie survival tactic. But behind his modesty and his seemingly random career, Hugh Jackman knows exactly what he’s doing.

by Jonathan Miles

Oooooof! Hugh Jackman has just been punched, squarely, in the nuts. His body crumples inward, hands instinctively headed southward to cup his groin from further attack, and his eyes, which for a brief moment cross in pain, begin to water. As he struggles to catch his breath, gulping for air, his face contorted in grimace, he raises an outstretched palm to say no more, to surrender. No más. The great Aussie action hero has been vanquished, felled by something close to the wince-inducing blow that Jackman’s Wolverine delivered to the crotch of an enemy mutant in the most memorable fight scene of X-Men 3. His attacker steps back and, devoid of all mercy, lets out a long and sustained giggle. Jackman wags his head quickly, as if to shake off the pain the way a wet dog shakes off water. “No more hitting Daddy in the penis,” he finally croaks.

It’s a clear, crisp Sunday afternoon in Jackman’s hometown of Sydney, Australia, and Jackman — along with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, his three-year-old daughter-slash-assailant Ava, and myself — is aboard a 48-foot sailboat cutting its way across the waters of Sydney Harbor. It’s a leisurely family cruise, despite my presence (Jackman’s thought process: If you’ve got to do an interview, arrange it so that the family gets out on the water). Jackman is loose and relaxed, dressed in a lightweight cotton blue hoodie, black Converse sneakers, and a straw hat, his face darkened with a faint scruff of beard. He is tall, lean, and unfailingly polite. The caustic edge many Australian men display — a good-natured chip on the shoulder that manifests itself in conversational jousting — is absent.

Jackman’s casual graciousness seems more British, evoking more the native England of his parents than the rough-and-tumble ex–penal colony of his birth.

In between amusing his daughter, Jackman gives a starboard tour of the Sydney waterfront, pointing out an oddly extravagant house with a palm tree jutting through its roof (“I’ve been in that house. Inside, it’s literally like you’re in Tahiti. Kind of cheesy”) as well as Nicole Kidman’s expansive three-story villa. The Jackmans, he says, watched the New Year’s Eve fireworks with Kidman, Jackman’s co-star in the Baz Luhrmann–directed drama Australia, aboard a yacht that Sting rented for the night. With Kidman’s husband Keith Urban on the guitar, “everyone got up and sang a song,” Jackman says. “Then a friend who was staying with me got up and started singing ‘Roxanne’ a cappella,” a decidedly ballsy move, it would seem, on Sting’s boat. “But Sting said all right, and he got up, too.” Next he points to a dazzlingly white stuccoed stone Victorian mansion planted on the coastline. “And that house, there? That’s where we filmed the Darwin party scene,” he says, talking about Australia.

Australia — and, by extension, Australia — has been a primary focus for Jackman since 2006, when the actor was tapped to replace countryman Russell Crowe in the leading man slot. (Crowe dropped out for financial reasons, grumbling, “I don’t do charity work for major studios.”) The World War II–era epic has Jackman playing a rough cowboy (or drover) who undertakes a massive cattle drive to save the ranch of a high-strung widow (that’s Kidman). “He brings enormous Aussie charm to the role and this laid-back swagger, which I think hasn’t been seen onscreen for a long time,” gushes Kidman. “I think Baz brought something very different out of Hugh.” The movie has become something of a national endeavor, not unlike the effort that went into Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, which put neighboring New Zealand on the map. But as with Australia itself, the scale of this countrywide production one-ups Jackson; Luhrmann not only filmed this down under Gone with the Wind in Australia, he filled the marquee with an entirely Aussie cast and crew and paired up with Tourism Australia so the film could be used as bait for international visitors. Then there’s the title: in Australia anyway, definitely a risk. “There’s some anxiety that goes with it,” Jackman admits. “It better be good, right? Australians aren’t going to go, ‘Oh, I didn’t like that,’ if they didn’t. No, they’ll be angry. But Baz has earned the title.”

And Jackman, it’s fair to say, has earned the role. Or any role, for that matter, since in his 10-year film career he has played nearly every kind: the darkly obsessed magician locked in a battle to the death with Christian Bale in The Prestige; his Tony Award–winning run as the flamboyant, ultragay entertainer Peter Allen in the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz; the voice of a penguin in the animated Happy Feet; and the woolly, adamantium-clawed comic-book mutant Wolverine in the X-Men movies — an unlikely choice, as the comic books pegged the character at 5-foot-3, but special effects do work wonders.

That kind of range is the definition of the job, but Jackman, who turns 40 in October, extends his brand of Method acting to his body as well (Happy Feet excluded). Hence the nine straight months of daily yoga he practiced to pull off the lotus position for 2006’s The Fountain, plus the additional three months’ practice it required to be able to do it underwater — all for a movie barely anyone paid to see. (Yeah, he’s heard of body doubles. Stuntmen, too. Not interested.) Or the total body transformation he achieved to play Wolverine, a feat so admired that Jackman’s trainer, Vancouver-based Steve Ramsbottom, touts a “Wolverine Workout.” The former gym-phobe (“I never understood why people went to the gym; I thought it was just ridiculous,” Jackman says) undertook a grueling, boot camp–style routine — up to two hours of weightlifting, five days a week, screaming along with Metallica and Godsmack — at the end of which he was benching 315 pounds and sporting that comic-book-hero silhouette. Ditto for Australia, for which the naturally lean actor needed to pack on the thick muscle of an outback cattle drover.

“Hugh’s amazing because he has such athleticism,” says Kidman. “He could barely ride at the beginning of the film, but by the end he was a great horseman. He will make Aussie stockmen proud.”

“For a year and a half I’ve been pretty strict on my eating,” Jackman says. “The biggest change was that I was eating every three hours.” He adopted the diet of an Australian bodybuilding champ who “wakes up at four in the morning, has egg whites on dry toast, then goes back to bed so he gets some food in him before he trains at 6 am.”

“That was your chicken breast by the bed,” Deb chimes in, from her sunlit perch at the stern of the boat. “It’s just gross.”

“It’s pretty fine eating,” Jackman says. “I got used to it. And my energy level went through the roof.”

Chicken breast on the nightstand: Jackman doesn’t do things half-assed. Not that he would put it that way. He is so modest he won’t even take credit for being modest, chalking it up to national character. “I love the way in America people go, ‘I’m good at making coffee. I’m going to make you some great coffee,’ ” he says. “Here you’d say, ‘Let me make you a cup of coffee,’ and if someone says it’s great, you go, ‘Aw, I just fluked it. Usually it’s crap, what I make, but I just got lucky today.’ ”

He offers a variation on that theme when asked about his versatility as a performer. It’s an Aussie thing, he explains. “Look at the business here in Australia,” he says. “With a population of just 20 million, you can’t be too fussy. You have to be able to do everything. Russell Crowe did musicals when he started in indie theater. That may be some of the reason Australian actors have done well. There’s more versatility to what they can do. Plus, we have a saying here: Have a go. We don’t like people who play things safe. It’s not enough just to be successful. You have to take a bit of risk.”

Have a go, you mug: it’s as good a summation as any for Jackman’s life thus far. But it’s slightly misleading at the same time, because while Jackman may sometimes leap without looking, once he leaps his commitment is fervent, and possibly even (see the underwater yoga) obsessive. Don’t believe him for a second when he says he just fluked it.

Jackman is the youngest of five children of Chris Jackman, an English-born accountant, and Grace Watson, who abandoned the family and moved back home to England when Hugh was eight. It was by all accounts a searing split for the young Hugh, who was suddenly a latchkey kid, left to the roughshod care of his older siblings while his father worked until 6:30 or 7 at night. Though his youth was comfortable — “I was raised in a white, leafy, Connecticut-type suburb north of Sydney with the WASPy sort of private schools,” he says — it wasn’t, at least to him, normal. Normalcy was what he craved, which may be why his earliest ambition was to be an accountant like his dad. “I wanted to do his job,” he says. “He had a calm power about him when he was at work. He had a secretary.”

As with most Australians, a sharp yearning to travel eventually set in. “Part of that is our isolation,” Jackman says. Australia might be a big country, but it can feel like a small island, tucked far away from the rest of the world. If we were to turn this boat due east, we’d cover lots of blue — 7,000 miles of it — before landfall in South America.

“I used to spend nights looking at atlases,” Jackman says. “I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I’d been on a plane, and there was food onboard, so I presumed there was a chef back there. I thought that would be the ideal job.” When he realized the grim reality of airline cuisine, he switched his ambitions to the ministry. “My dad was religious,” he says. “He was converted by Billy Graham, and he used to take me to things like that.” The teenage Jackman found something appealing about those itinerant preachers: maybe their power to spellbind a crowd, their wizardly ability to draw emotions from people, the invocatory force of their voices. “For two or three years I thought I might want to be a minister or something,” he says. An accountant, a minister: Jackman was a good son, toeing the family line, headed straight for mild normalcy.

But then something happened to Hugh Jackman out in the outback. He was 19 and building homes for Aborigines as part of a Lutheran mission in Areyonga. “Throw a dart in the middle of Australia, and there it is,” he says. “Very arid, very dry. Red rocks and red dust.” He met a general store owner who lamented that he hadn’t had a vacation in half a decade. Jackman told him to take off; he’d manage the store, have a go. And he did, for a month. “The locals loved it because I’m sure they were nicking so much stuff, and I had no idea,” he says. But Jackman discovered a weird, unexpected serenity out in the faraway. “Suddenly all the things that matter to a young man, like ambition and idealism, started to melt away. All the things you thought mattered to you just go. It’s the land, that feeling of being part of something natural. It feels right.” By this time Jackman was in college, halfheartedly intending a career in radio journalism. He deeply considered staying in Areyonga for good, but his father urged him back to college. “But it was just to finish it off so I’d get the piece of paper,” he says. “Not that I had my sights set on acting then, but there was enough quiet in my head, I suppose, for me to get an inkling of who I was.”

After enrolling in a college drama class (“Everyone knew the teacher, and it was easy”), the former aspiring minister discovered acting. It didn’t come as a bolt of lightning, or a burning bush, but rather a sense of challenge — the former class president and rugby player felt “like the dunce of the class, vulnerable and overwhelmed” — that, eventually, came to feel like destiny. “I decided to give it a crack,” he says. He was working the front desk at a Sydney gym when Annie Semler, wife of Academy Award–winning Australian cinematographer Dean Semler, came in for a sales tour, during which she suddenly stopped and leveled an uncomfortably intense stare at Jackman. He presumed he’d just squandered the sale. “You’re going to be a big star,” Semler announced, with a spooky certainty. “Don’t worry, it’s all going to happen so fast.

Listen to me, I’m a white witch.”

“At the time I was thinking, Please just give me your credit card,” Jackman says.

But the white witch was right. Jackman landed an agent the next day. Two weeks later he was offered a role on an Aussie soap opera. It was a plum gig, with the allure of easy money and quick fame, but to Jackman it felt too safe. He turned it down, choosing instead to hunker down for another three years of acting school. “I’d learned just enough to know how little I knew,” he says.

The risk paid off. Aside from a few clunky efforts and one near miss (the Jackman-produced CBS show Viva Laughlin tanked last year after two episodes; he was passed over to play James Bond), Jackman’s career arc has shot steadily upward, even as his range has veered steadily outward. “I have gone to the theater for 60-some years,” famed screenwriter William Goldman wrote in Variety about Jackman’s performance in the Broadway show The Boy from Oz. “I was there for Brando in ’47 Streetcar. But nothing prepared me for Hugh Jackman.”

Now he’s headlining the biggest production to ever come out of his native country, shouldering his homeland’s history and character in all its celluloid glory. Quite a go.

There’s one way jackman’s not your typical Aussie. “I don’t drink much,” he admits. Which is his way of saying he’s still a bit hungover from a weeklong guys’ trip to Japan that ended just a few days earlier. The sail cruise finished, we’re sitting at a table at a harborside cafe while Deb scores some coffee for us all. “I was just about to say I wanted to have an assassin,” he says, “because it was right about now, this time in the afternoon, when we started drinking.” He went with 11 childhood friends, inspired by the father of one who said that he’d “gone to Japan on a hot tub tour” in his 40s.

Ava is clinging to her father; she wants more tickling, and Jackman complies. He’s an easy mark that way, even mid-interview. “Very hard thing to organize, with 11 40-year-old guys with their lives and wives and families and jobs. It was sort of unbelievable that we were actually there. It took me a while to get my fitness on the drinking front. There were some very fit boys on that front.”

Owing to Australia’s other leading men, Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson, we’ve come to expect a certain bad-boy mystique from Aussie actors: a penchant for fistfights, busted-up marriages, arrest records, crazy-wild binges. Jackman is the antithesis to all that. If it’s perhaps too facile to see, in his devotion to family, the glint of the motherless boy who wanted only normalcy in life, it’s also impossible to ignore. He at least hews to that conventional notion of normalcy: the doting father and husband, the man for the job. “I think he’s from another planet,” says John Palermo, Jackman’s longtime friend and production partner. “You can compare him, professionally, to Kelly and Astaire and McQueen, but he doesn’t have the temper or drama their lives had. He’s a happily married actor who spends honest time with his children.” Ask Jackman about the biggest risk he has ever taken, and the answer comes instantaneously: “Marriage, the whole family life. It’s not so much a risk as a surrender, kind of like, okay, I’m jumping into the rapids.”

He met Deb, an actress and director eight years his senior, on the set of Correlli, an Australian TV series they both appeared in; they were married in 1996 and, after she suffered two miscarriages, adopted their son Oscar in 2000 and Ava in 2005. Talking about them is when Jackman seems most genuinely enthusiastic; the movies are nice and all, and the karaoke with Keith Urban on Sting’s yacht, that’s cool, but this is when he leans in hard, this is when his eyes focus. “What you learn being married to someone is better than any classroom or anything you can study, or any job,” he says. “If I didn’t have Deb, I don’t know if I would’ve kept acting. With the risks, having someone’s unconditional love means you can really fall on your ass and be completely loved, even if the rest of the world chucks tomatoes at you.

“And the same with kids,” he says. “Everything is exposed with kids. There’s no artifice, because they see you for exactly what you are. You can’t pretend. Actors can fool people about the kind of person they are. You can wear whatever mask you want to put on. But it doesn’t work with kids, you know? If your career is more important than them, you’re going to have hell. You see things get out of whack, out of balance, because they just mirror it back to you. To feel at the end of the day that you haven’t done everything you could for your kids — none of it’s worth it.

“It’s going to sound like I’m coming back to my work now,” he says, “but when the head of the studio saw Australia, he said, ‘Mate, when your grandkids ask your kids what you did, this is the movie they’ll put in.’ But, see? Everything is related to the kids now. Frightening how in love with them you are. It’s hard to go away, hard to do things like this. You have those little flashes of them jumping into a road and you stop breathing.”

But that, Jackman knows, is the risk you take. You have a go, mate. Then you throw everything you’ve got into it, do whatever it takes to push through to the end. Even if it means getting punched in the nuts every now and again.

[narrows101]

Check out/download the new trailer of "Australia" on this great fan website, plus 110 screencaps from it:

http://www.australiamovie.net/2008/09/full-length-australia-trailer-online/

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Check out/download the new trailer of "Australia" on this great fan website, plus 110 screencaps from it:

http://www.australiamovie.net/2008/09/full-length-australia-trailer-online/

:wow: oooohhhhh, that was gooooooooood! :heart:

[Two-Face]

Jackman looks like young Clint Eastwood.

[narrows101]

Men's Journal November 2008 (not online yet, found on ebay):

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/jackensack/MENSJOURNALNOV2008A.JPG



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[narrows101]

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/03/hugh-jackman-slick-rick/

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[Two-Face]

Cool :up:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Yummy! :heart:

thanks for the pictures :D

What a great way to start my Saturday ;)

[narrows101]

Happy 40th birthday Hugh!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,24482942-2902,00.html

Famous guests party the night away as Hugh Jackman turns 40
Article from: Sunday Herald Sun
Kym Wilson
October 12, 2008 12:00am

FRIENDS of Hollywood hunk Hugh Jackman converged at a ritzy Sydney yacht club last night for the actor's surprise 40th birthday bash.

Wife Deborra-Lee Furness spent months planning the event, which attracted messages from actors and directors from around the world.
Jackman and his wife arrived back in Australia with their children, Oscar, 7, and Ava, 3, on Friday after a holiday in Cambodia.

Those in the know were warned that they faced instant extinction from the charmed circle if they let details out to the media.

Twenty-six of the couple's closest friends gathered in the main dining room of the Royal Motor Yacht Club about 8pm after pre-dinner drinks.
Jackman, looking tanned and wearing a grey suit with blue shirt, arrived at the venue in a black limousine, unaware of the secret gathering. The Australian Girls Choir sang Happy Birthday to a beaming and surprised Jackman.

Heading the international invite list was Jackman's producer partner John Palermo, who is spending just two nights Down Under before flying back to Los Angeles.

Melbourne-based film producer Mark Pennell (the former husband of Tara Moss) attended. Foxtel boss Brian Walsh arrived carrying a big present wrapped in a Prada bag.

Also partying was Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Miller, Rove McManus and his actor girlfriend Tasma Walton and Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton.

Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch and Jackman's good friend, director Baz Luhrmann joined in. Luhrmann stayed for about an hour before dashing off, perhaps to continue editing the soon-to-be-released blockbuster Australia.
Jackman's Australia co-star, Nicole Kidman, and her husband, Keith Urban, were overseas.

One guest who found it hard to buy the right gift for Jackman was personal trainer-turned-fashion guru Michael Ryan, who earlier had received a motor bike from the actor.

Party guests kicked on until about 1am today.

Gallery Pics of the party:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,24482942-2902,00.html

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[narrows101]

Hugh and Nicole Kidman traveled to Chicago last week and taped an episode of "Oprah" to promote their upcoming movie "Australia" - out Nov. 26 in Australia and the US. No firm date for airing but some say it will be next week.

And looks like this may be Hugh's next project - finally, a movie musical.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23543

Steven Soderbergh Talks Cleo Musical
Exclusive: Latest on his ambitious next

Steven Soderbergh was in town this week to promote Che, his four-hour, two-part biopic of Che Guevara. All very serious stuff - but when Empire spoke to him at the Times BFI London Film Festival, we had to had to HAD TO ask him about the freshly-announced and wonderfully bizarre news that he's set to direct a 3D rock musical called Cleo, starring Hugh Jackman as Mark Antony and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cleopatra.

“I've wanted to do a musical my whole career,” said Soderbergh, who's done just about everything else as a director. “I've been developing this on my own quietly, and I'm hoping to get it together for next Spring.”

Soderbergh is clearly delighted to have secured the services of Zeta-Jones (with whom he's worked before, on Traffic and Ocean's Twelve) and Jackman as his leads. After all, they have a background in musicals, and Zeta-Jones' Oscar came, of course, for Chicago. “They've got great voices,” said Soderbergh. “I've seen them live and they're amazing. Now we need a Caesar.”

That, history fans, means Caesar Octavian, the ruler determined to put Cleo and Mark Ant. in their place during their later years, rather than Julius, who famously dallied with Cleopatra in her younger days and would presumably appear in flashbacks at most in this story.

Either way, it's clear to see that Soderbergh is relishing the challenge of putting together the musical, which will be soundtracked by Guided By Voices. And, even though the story of Antony & Cleopatra ends in tragedy and asp-assisted suicide, this won't be as heavy as some of Soderbergh's output. “It's supposed to be fun – you're supposed to have a real good time,” he said. “I'm really excited about it.”

You and us both, sir. You and us both.

[squeekness]

I hates musicals. :(

[Ziggyman]

^I hate you...

...I kid!

:dry:

[squeekness]

They make me break out in a rash. :p

[narrows101]

Hugh and Nicole Kidman are going to be on the Oprah Winfrey Show for the full hour on November 10.

Meanwhile, the premiere of "Australia":

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24602285-12377,00.html (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24602285-12377,00.html)

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman to attend Australia premiere
November 04, 2008

NICOLE Kidman and Hugh Jackman will step onto the red carpet in Sydney for the world premiere of Baz Luhrmann's highly anticipated epic movie Australia on November 18.

Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, young indigenous actor Brandon Walters and other Australian celebrities will join them at the George Street Greater Union cinemas in Sydney's CBD.
Simultaneous screenings will be held in Darwin and Bowen, in Queensland, to celebrate key shooting locations from the film.

A separate celebration of the film will be held in the fourth shooting location, Kununurra, in Western Australia's East Kimberley region, with details to be announced shortly.

"With the huge anticipation for this film, these events will be the first chance for people to discover what promises to be Baz's next cinematic masterpiece,'' said Marcos Oliveira, managing director of 20th Century Fox Australia.

NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson welcomed the local screening of Australia.

"It is great that Darwin is being recognised by having an important role in the premiere of the film,'' Mr Henderson said.

"Darwin and the Northern Territory play an important role in the movie which will provide a great boost for the Northern Territory tourism industry.''

Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor Michael Brunker added: "I'm sure it will be an unforgettable night for the people of Bowen.''

The $130 million romantic action-adventure film, set in northern Australia, follows the story of Lady Sarah Ashley, played by Kidman, who inherits a remote cattle station called Faraway Downs in the mid-1930s, before World War II.

When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of kilometres of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.

The film will be released nationally on November 26.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Soooooooooo, what's the rating on this film.........

and what's the scoop of what's in it?
as in Violence, Language, Nudity?

none of that is on imdb yet..

[narrows101]

Hugh and Catherine Zeta-Jones hosted a charity event on Saturday called "A Fine Romance - Hollywood Loves Broadway." Here are some snaps from the event - Hugh and Kristin Chenoweth LOL! And it's great to see Hugh and CZJ together since they will reportedly will be filming the movie musical "Cleo" starting in April!

http://www.ineedmyfix.com/2008/11/09/hugh-jackman-kristin-chenoweth-a-fine-romance-event/

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[squeekness]

So I finally got to see Deception last night. It was better than I had expected considering the tepid reviews it got. I thought it was a decent enough film. :D

[Charlie No-One]

I watched Van Helsing today. He was delicious in it.

[danoyse]

So I finally got to see Deception last night. It was better than I had expected considering the tepid reviews it got. I thought it was a decent enough film. :D

I just got it from Netflix. Haven't watched it yet.

I've got my Tivo set for Oprah tomorrow!! :woot:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

:heart: Ooooooh, Hugh was so gorgeous on Oprah :heart:

I love how he was so humble and blushed when they were talking about a certain part in the movie :heart:
His Face turned BRIGHT RED! His ears and neck too :p

I hope to see this movie!!!!

[danoyse]

He really did turn red, that was so funny!!

I've missed Hugh, it was so nice to see him again! :heart:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Something I thought you all might enjoy........
Myspace has an Artist on Artist with Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrmann

http://www.myspace.com/artistonartist

Enjoy!

[danoyse]

I cannot believe I beat narrows to this: Sexiest Man Alive, anyone?!

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20237714_20241213,00.html

It's about time!!!! :woot:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

I cannot believe I beat narrows to this: Sexiest Man Alive, anyone?!

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20237714_20241213,00.html

It's about time!!!! :woot:

:wow: OMG OMG OMG :wow:

:heart: FINALLY :heart:
I just mght have to buy this issue of People!!!
if my husband will allow it

[Hunter Rider]

At the Sydney premiere of 'Australia'.

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[narrows101]

Those are great shots from the premiere! I've seen sooo many pictures, news reports, reviews and videos from "Australia" the past few days. Hugh will be on Leno Thursday and you know he will give him grief for the Sexiest Man Alive thing.

Part 1:

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[narrows101]

Part 2:

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

*drool*

Those are some great pics....... Gonna have to see if I can pick up this issue of People.
I never buy People Magazine :p

[ant3ros]

I wish Hugh Jackman had the power to shrink his height because that's the only thing in the way of him being absolutely perfect as Wolverine.

[squeekness]

You know? I didn't even really notice or care about the hieght difference. He did such a convincing job with Logan the man I simply didn't care. :p

[Bad Supe's Girl]

You know? I didn't even really notice or care about the hieght difference. He did such a convincing job with Logan the man I simply didn't care. :p

Seconded :up:

[Bim]

Hugh's darn sexy, that's all i can say :woot:

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51255

Hugh Jackman to Host the Oscars!!
Source: ComingSoon.net
December 12, 2008


The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Hugh Jackman will host the 81st Academy Awards. This is a breaking news item, stay tuned for more.

[narrows101]

Yep, Google alerts confirming this up the wazoo LOL! Here's the original exclusive:

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/motion-picture-academy-wants-hugh-jackman-to-host-he-may-say-yes-if-this-oscars-are-different/



OSCARS WANT HUGH JACKMAN TO HOST: He'll Accept If Academy Show "Different"

EXCLUSIVE: I reported (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/wp-admin) yesterday that the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had chosen someone "way outside the box" to host the 81st Oscars on February 22nd. Today, I've learned that the person is not just outside the box but outside this country. The Academy Awards is going international with its emcee choice -- Australian actor Hugh Jackman, star of X-Men, Australia, and the upcoming Wolverine, as well as People Magazine's 2008 "Sexiest Man Alive". But, and it's a BIG but, while the 40-year-old Sydney-born thesp of English parentage has received the AMPAS offer and is very interested, I'm told that he's not yet fully committed. Because there's still a lot of negotiating ahead between his showbiz representatives and AMPAS. I've learned that the people around Jackman want to know exactly what would be expected of him, especially when it comes to opening the Oscar broadcast. One segment of the show which reps for Jackman are objecting to specifically is the joke-telling monologue. "I don't want that for him," an insider told me. "He is an actor with big movies behind him and one coming this summer. He didn't work the last 20 years to suddenly be a stand-up comedian."

In recent years of Oscar telecasts, even going back decades, the ceremony has been emceed by mostly TV or movie comedians -- whether Will Rogers and George Jessel in the 1930s, Bob Hope off and on for the next three decades, Johnny Carson in the 1980s, even David Letterman in 1995. In the 1990s and 2000s, there's been a mix of film funnypeople like Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Steve Martin as well as stand-up comedians and TV personalities like Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres and Jon Stewart. But now that producers Larry Mark and Bill Condon plan to get rid of the joke-telling portion of the show this year (as I reported (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/oscar-news-host-wont-do-stand-up-protests-over-ampas-honor-for-jerry-lewis/) Thursday and thought a smart move: these one-liners are usually understood only by the movie industry and so inside that TV viewers are left bewildered), it opened up the possibility of an actor hosting. "If this is a different version of the Oscars than in previous years, then Hugh would be great. But I have no interest in him being Billy Crystal." a Jackman insider told me.

Only a few thesps have hosted the show by themselves, including first AMPAS president and one of the founders Douglas Fairbanks, then Jimmy Stewart, Robert Montgomery, and Jack Lemmon, when the Oscars consisted of an awards banquet, then a radio show, and ultimately a globally broadcast TV spectacle. As far as I can tell, all of the lone emcees have been Americans. Jackman's selection is the motion picture industry's recognition that, more now than ever before, the success of a movie depends equally if not more so on its international box office than its North American grosses.

As to why Jackman might have been selected over other actors, he's a proven commodity at hosting awards shows. He brilliantly emceed the televised ceremony for the Tony Awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005. As to whether Jackman would be asked to show off his musical talent at the Academy Awards isn't clear. But he did win Broadway's 2004 Tony Award as Best Actor In A Musical for his portrayal of Australian singer/songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz. The hiring of Mark and Condon, respectively Dreamgirls' producer and director, to co-produce this 81st Academy Awards would seem to indicate the pair might choose to make the most of Jackman's multi-talents. As for the actor, he'd probably love the exposure because his own movie production company, Seed Productions, is behind not only for the recent X-Man: The Last Stand (2006) but also the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off for 2009. It also could conceivably help the worldwide box office and DVD sales of his current pic Australia whose domestic grosses have been disappointing.

News of Jackman's selection as the next Oscar host -- no matter if he turns it down, which I do believe is doubtful -- is sure to be cheered in his home country of Australia, where moviegoing is a widespread passion. The choice is also a repudiation of recent hosts like Jon Stewart (twice) who though a household name in this country was barely known to anyone outside the United States. Last year, his emceeing resulted in the worst-rated Oscars since Nielsen started tracking them in 1974. Only 32 million people watched the writers strike-threatened 80th Academy Awards. And the 56 metered markets averaged a 10.7 rating among adults aged 18-49 -- smaller than the 39.9 million drawn by 2007's Ellen DeGeneres, or the 55 million who tuned in for Billy Crystal back in 1998.

But, really, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences only has itself to blame. AMPAS was trying to pander to young audiences. But after last year's kudosfest, several Hollywood power players lobbied AMPAS to do everything it could to change the awards show from top to bottom. What can't be helped is that recent nominations have been dominated by the small independent movies at the expense of the popular studio movies. As a result, last year's crowd-pleasers like 2007's Transformers, The Simpsons Movie, Knocked Up, Harry Potter, The Bourne Supremacy, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3 were barely given much air time.

I'm told the Jackman announcement could come as soon as Tuesday but more likely after the holidays if all the i's are dotted and t's get crossed in time. Jackman was one of the presenters at the 2002 Academy Awards, but said he'd think twice about doing it again because "getting up there in a suit and talking for a little bit is kind of bizarre." Also, he's supposed to be very near-sighted with extremely blurry vision when he isn't wearing contacts, so, reportedly, when he hosted the Tonys and even Saturday Night Live, Jackman memorized almost everything he had to say so he wouldn't have to struggle to read. And then there's just the terror of appearing live before Hollywood and the world. But Jackman once said about his own courage, "I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down -- of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' -- that galvanizes me more than anything."

One of the articles with a quote from those involved:

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20246416,00.html

Hugh Jackman to Host the Oscars
Originally posted Friday December 12, 2008 12:30 PM EST

And the hosting honor goes to … Hugh Jackman (http://www.people.com/people/hugh_jackman).

PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man Alive (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20241213,00.html) has been chosen to host the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony, to take place Feb. 22

The Australia star, 40, who'll be hosting the Oscars for the first time, was selected "because we want the ceremony to be fun," says Laurence Mark, producer of the telecast.

"He can hold the screen and he can hold a stage. It doesn't hurt that he looks amazing in a tuxedo and he's the Sexiest Man Alive."

Jackman won an Emmy in 2005 for hosting the 59th annual Tony Awards in 2004. He was also nominated as host of the Tonys in 2005.

ABC will broadcast the Oscar ceremony live from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 22.

[Dave McFly]

Seconded :up:

THIRDED! :applaud

[Figs]

I think Jackman is great but shouldn't host the Oscars.

Main reason is stated in that article, they already think it will be weird for him to do a joking monologue.

I'm sorry but that's what that Borefest needs(sometimes, not always) is some laughs in between everyone patting themselves on the back. I say get a comedian again, people who don't think they should have a host who pokes fun at Hollywood need to lighten up.

If anything it shows they can laugh at themselves. Not to mention two other things.

Seeing Hugh in interviews he has a decent sense of humour and although he does stage work and some serious movies he was also in Swordfish and the X-men films(I liked both but their not serious dramas). In short, I don't think telling a few jokes would ruin his "image" but I guess others think differently.

[Jake Cassidy]

They could've got Eric Bana. Any Aussie around here can tell you how funny he can be. :woot:

[[A]]

Hugh Jackman to Host the Oscars!!

Just read about it--I can totally see it. The guy's overwhelmingly charismatic

[danoyse]

I think Jackman is great but shouldn't host the Oscars.

Main reason is stated in that article, they already think it will be weird for him to do a joking monologue.

I'm sorry but that's what that Borefest needs(sometimes, not always) is some laughs in between everyone patting themselves on the back. I say get a comedian again, people who don't think they should have a host who pokes fun at Hollywood need to lighten up.

If anything it shows they can laugh at themselves. Not to mention two other things.

Seeing Hugh in interviews he has a decent sense of humour and although he does stage work and some serious movies he was also in Swordfish and the X-men films(I liked both but their not serious dramas). In short, I don't think telling a few jokes would ruin his "image" but I guess others think differently.

You've obviously never seen him on stage live - I have (5 times, as a matter of fact) and Hugh is an absolute natural. He's great with the audience, he's insanely funny, and he's amazing to watch. If you've never seen him perform live, you have no idea what you're in for. He'll be fantastic.

And I just found this news about 3 minutes ago because our internet was down at work all day - I'm practically jumping around my living room right now.

So cool!!!!! :woot:

[Figs]

You've obviously never seen him on stage live - I have (5 times, as a matter of fact) and Hugh is an absolute natural. He's great with the audience, he's insanely funny, and he's amazing to watch. If you've never seen him perform live, you have no idea what you're in for. He'll be fantastic.

And I just found this news about 3 minutes ago because our internet was down at work all day - I'm practically jumping around my living room right now.

So cool!!!!! :woot:


What I meant by my previous post was that it sounded like some of the higher ups didn't want him to have any jokes in case it tarnishes his 'image'.

I was simply saying that it would suck if they deny him that, sometimes the only worthwhile thing about the Oscars is when the host starts poking fun at other celebrities.

Basically, if they don't want Hugh to use any jokes they should just get someone to host that is known for being funny.

I'm all for him hosting just as long as they let him do what he wants...well for the most part.

[danoyse]

What I meant by my previous post was that it sounded like some of the higher ups didn't want him to have any jokes in case it tarnishes his 'image'.

I was simply saying that it would suck if they deny him that, sometimes the only worthwhile thing about the Oscars is when the host starts poking fun at other celebrities.

Basically, if they don't want Hugh to use any jokes they should just get someone to host that is known for being funny.

I'm all for him hosting just as long as they let him do what he wants...well for the most part.

The article said it was his reps who don't want him doing a monologue, since he's not known as a stand-up comedian. They didn't say they didn't want him telling jokes - he did plenty the 3 times he hosted the Tony Awards.

There's a ton of things he can do, they certainly don't have to turn him into Jon Stewart for the night. They just want to make sure that's not what they're looking for in a host for the show.

[Hunter Rider]

http://i41.tinypic.com/1f7g1v.jpg

[narrows101]

Everything that danoyse said.

Hugh is going to be FANTASTIC! Those of you who haven't seen him live (daynoyse has me beat by one - I saw Boy from Oz 4 times) or hosting the Tony Awards have no idea what he can do. And he was very funny hosting the Tonys! He also kept the audience entertained during the commericals which I bet he will do during the Oscars.

He has also hosted many other things and performed live in other places - the recent "A Fine Romance" where he co-hosted and performed with Catherine Zeta-Jones was attended by Bill Condon (the producer of the Oscars).

I think many people will be very surprised - too many just think of him as Wolverine and he is so much more than that.

[narrows101]

Very interesting profile on Hugh with some tidbits I didn't know (and a gorgeous picture).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3833405/Hugh-Jackman-X-appeal.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3833405/Hugh-Jackman-X-appeal.html)

Hugh Jackman: X appeal

If playing a gay entertainer on Broadway led Hollywood to question Jackman’s leading man credentials, his performance as a red-blooded cowboy in Australia has settled the argument.
By Claire Scobie
Last Updated: 5:52PM GMT 18 Dec 2008

'For years I had this feeling that my career was like being dragged by a Great Dane down the road. it was exhilarating and fun but also a little out of control'

Hugh Jackman’s face breaks into a wide grin when he sees the tray of sushi I have brought him. Diet features large in this Australian actor’s life. When he was in training to play the mutant action hero Wolverine in the X-Men films he was waking at 4am for his first meal and eating every three hours. 'This is a good way to my heart,’ he says. 'What you eat is everything. I always thought it was about lifting harder, heavier, longer. Now I think you have to eat more and eat leaner.’



We meet on a warm breezy day at his film production company, Seed Productions, based at Fox Studios in Sydney. He is svelte in a black Louis Vuitton shirt and jeans, his tanned face obscured by sunglasses. His thick nut-brown hair is slicked back, emphasising those chiselled features and well-groomed stubble.

Rather than sit inside to talk about his new film, he motions to a grubby table and chair on the grass opposite. In Hollywood Jackman’s reputation as the Mr Nice Guy precedes him. Rachel Weisz went so far as to describe Jackman, whom she starred opposite in The Fountain, as 'a sort of male sex God. He’s so beautiful and such a perfect gentleman at the same time.’

He has lost 9lb training for his starring role in Baz Luhrmann’s new film, Australia, as 'the drover’ – a lasso-slinging whip-cracking cowboy – and he only picks at the sashimi: he doesn’t do carbs after midday. Down-to-earth, with no trace of self-importance, Jackman is an intriguing combination of laidback Aussie charm and flashes of English thespian (his parents are English). He speaks fast in a sunny drawl, quotes Shakespeare and tends to ruminate philosophically on the nature of the self.

Jackman’s career is singular for its versatility. Now 40, he began in musical theatre – leading roles in Beauty and the Beast and Sunset Boulevard in Australia led to a year in London, where he first came to the attention of the British public playing Curly in Trevor Nunn’s Oklahoma! in 1998, for which he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. Six years later he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the gay Australian entertainer Peter Allen, in the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz, which would lead to three years hosting the glitzy Tony Awards at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

'For many years I had this weird feeling that my career was like being dragged by a Great Dane down the road,’ he says, thrusting out an arm as if gripping a lead. 'I was holding on and it was fun and exhilarating and hysterical but – aaarrggghhh – it was also a little out of control.’ He almost leaps off the seat before catching himself. 'The Boy from Oz turned out to be one of the turning points for me because it was a risk. I wasn’t 100 per cent sure I could do it, but I felt a compulsion to give it a go and it worked out.’

Many counselled against him signing up for a year on Broadway. 'Aside from the fact that it was a “gay character who’s not that famous,”’ he continues, 'it was the worst time in the trajectory of a film career to take 18 months out. You know – “You’re in your mid-thirties, and it doesn’t last for ever old man.”’ The risk paid dividends. 'Darren Aronofsky saw it and thought that I could play the role in The Fountain [three incarnations of the same character over a 1,000-year period], Woody Allen the same [casting Jackman in Scoop], then Christopher Nolan [who directed Jackman in The Prestige in 2006, a drama about two 19th-century rival magicians].’

Amid this sweep of arthouse films – including the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold and the gothic horror Van Helsing, which grossed £200 million worldwide – was his touching portrayal of Wolverine, with mutton-chops like shag-pile carpet, in the X-Men series, alongside Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, which brought Jackman box-office success.

If his legion of adolescent Wolverine Marvel comic book fans were confused by Jackman’s new role on Broadway wearing skinny flares and Hawaiian shirts, the gay community championed a new pin-up. 'I try not to find out any of that stuff regardless of whatever the [fan] group is,’ he says, adding that towards the end of the show’s run, 'There was a fairly substantial rumour going round about my own sexuality. I only know that because my wife [the actress Deborra-Lee Furness] told me. Every time Deb would go to the ladies she’d hear people saying, “Is he or isn’t he?” She’d yell out, “He isn’t!”’ He gives a deep chesty laugh. 'I just took it as a compliment to be honest. Maybe I’m doing a good job of it.’

None the less, the executives at Fox Studios LA have been working hard to reposition Jackman in Australia as a younger, rough-hewn Clint Eastwood able to ravish the leading lady, Nicole Kidman, with credibility. As the New York Times puts it: 'In Hollywood, where typecasting remains very much a force, Mr Jackman retains a slight stigma.’

The opening scenes of Australia, at £60 million the most expensive Australian film ever made and the most eagerly anticipated, quickly establish Jackman’s leading man credentials. When Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman), an uptight English aristocrat, arrives in Darwin in the Northern Territory in search of her husband, the owner of an enormous cattle station, the drover is sent to meet her. Swaggering in moleskin trousers and a battered Akubra hat, he throws the first punch in a pub brawl and in the chaos that ensues, some of Lady Ashley’s luggage (designed by Prada for the film) is decimated: her underwear – corsets, brassieres and stockings – thrown up in the air like confetti. 'Welcome to Australia,’ a bloodied Jackman says to Kidman.

It 'was the most physical part’ Jackman has ever played. He takes off his sunglasses to reveal startling hazel/olive-green eyes. 'In the script it says, “The drover was probably the greatest horse rider of all time.”’ Jackman spent several months in Texas learning how to ride among the toughest cowboys he could find. This couldn’t prepare him for galloping alongside 1,500 stampeding cattle across the blistering Kimberleys in remote north-western Australia, where some of the five-month shoot took place.

Going on location was like going 'to Mars’. Temperatures soared to the low 40s and a once-in-a-hundred-year flood marooned the station’s homestead, Faraway Downs,delaying the shoot for several weeks. Down the bank from Jackman’s trailer was a creek teeming with crocodiles. Yet filming Australia, an old-fashioned epic and romping romantic adventure set during the Second World War, was 'incredibly transformational’, a sentiment echoed by Kidman (who became unexpectedly pregnant on location), and one of the driving themes of the film.

At its heart Australia tells of how the land and mystical Aboriginal culture have the power to transform. Indeed, the film’s strongest storyline lies with the character Nullah, a mixed-race Aboriginal boy played brilliantly by the 13-year-old newcomer Brandon Walters, who is trying to escape the cruel fate of forced separation from his Aboriginal family. Until 1973 these children were snatched by the authorities and brought up in church missions to 'breed the black out’, becoming known as the Stolen Generations.

Jackman is compelling as the troubled drover whose frozen heart thaws when he and Kidman join forces to outwit cattle barons plotting to seize her ranch. Playing a man of few words, he is forced to express everything through the flicker of an eye or purse of the lips. In America, where Oprah Winfrey dedicated an entire show to the film, enthusing, 'I’ve not been so excited by a movie since I don’t know when,’ you suspect Jackman’s elevation to the A-list is assured.

Back home, the hype was such that when Australia premiered in Sydney last month, one film critic said it was 'the biggest thing this town has seen since the Olympics’. With an £8.5 million tie-in marketing campaign by Tourism Australia, hoping it will re-ignite the country’s flagging tourism industry, is there pressure on Jackman?

'I’m quite hard on myself [but] the pressure comes from me. So the simple answer is probably no. Being an actor, it’s all in some way very neurotically linked to your self-esteem and I think you’ve got to understand where your anxiety comes from. What is the fear? Is it the fear I am letting down Tourism Australia or the Australian film industry or myself?’ He pauses. The biggest fear 'would be for Baz. Overriding that there’s always that actor’s fear that they’ll find out this time,’ – his chuckle sounds slightly forced – 'they’ll find out I am just that kid from Wahroonga.’ Who’s he kidding?

The leafy middle-class suburb of Wahroonga on Sydney’s North Shore is where Jackman grew up, the youngest of five children. The year before his birth, in 1968, his English parents had migrated to Australia as 'Ten Pound Poms’ (under the Australian government’s scheme to encourage skilled migration). His father, Chris, knuckled down as a hard-working accountant; his mother, Grace, did not adapt so well. After Jackman’s birth she suffered post-natal depression severe enough for Hugh to spend the first 18 months of his life with his godparents. When he was eight his mother returned to England. It was out of the blue, Chris Jackman has said recently – she left 'just a letter’ and five 'heartbroken’ children.

'For many years I believed that she was going to come back. I think you live in that kind of world.’ Jackman falls silent. With his mother and four siblings now living in England, he’s reluctant to elaborate. 'I’m sure it shaped me but I wouldn’t say it’s haunted me or made my life dark or full of anger and angst. Mum and I have come to a peaceful place with it.’ From the age of 14 Jackman travelled to England occasionally to see his mother, where his love of the theatre blossomed.

As an adolescent he disliked all the attention and sympathy he received from his friends’ mothers and desperately wanted to fit in. At school, the high-achieving Knox Grammar, he was an all-rounder who excelled in sport and drama and became school captain. Jackman drew great strength from his father, a devout Christian – as was Jackman when growing up, but no longer – who brought up five children single-handedly through discipline and hand-me-downs. 'I’ve never heard Dad say a bad word about anybody including my mum. I love that quality about him.’

After studying communications and journalism at Sydney’s University of Technology, Jackman switched to acting in 1991, turning down a role on Neighbours to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. Those three years were 'probably one of the happiest times of my life,’ he says. 'We’d do Shakespeare, then circus skills and singing and dancing. It is a quality that seems to tap into my surname, Jack of all trades.’

During those early lean years Jackman made his living as a clown at children’s parties, and worked in restaurants and petrol stations, before his first television break in 1995, aged 27, in Correlli, a prison drama on which he met his wife,13 years his senior. Recognising his rising star, she put her own ambitions on hold to further his career.

'That had its moments for Deb,’ Jackman says, a shadow crossing his face. 'When we first went to Hollywood people would ignore her. She’d call it the chopped liver syndrome. She would be literally hit away as [women] tried to get to me,’ he sighs. 'It takes adjusting for me too. Sometimes I don’t understand why I am getting this attention.’

Notwithstanding his ranking as one of People magazine’s '50 Most Beautiful People in the World’ from 2000 to 2004, Jackman still walks freely in New York or London. In Sydney he is on first-name terms with the Australian paparazzi who trail him on dawn swims at Bondi Beach. 'I’m pretty boring,’ he shrugs. 'There’s no scandal.’

Much of this is down to the rock-solidness of his 12-year marriage. For Jackman it was love at first sight – 'like a thunderbolt. I knew 100 per cent that Deb was going to be my wife.’ Furness laid down the 'two-week rule’ – the 'backbone’ of their marriage according to Jackman – stipulating that they could not be apart for longer than 14 days. 'She’d seen so many relationships go awry, particularly on location when people were away for months on end,’ he explains. 'Absence doesn’t necessarily make the heart grow fonder.’

The result is a Bedouin lifestyle. They have lived in Pimlico, London and Soho, New York and after two years in Sydney, will return to New York this Christmas. Jackman knows that this may be unsettling for their two adopted children, Oscar, eight, and Eva, three. 'It’s pretty simple. It started with the marriage. Now we ask, is this good for the family or bad? If it’s good we do it. If it’s bad we don’t.’

The couple experienced considerable heartache trying to have their own children. After three years of IVF in Britain and Australia they decided on adoption. In 1998, during the previews of Oklahoma!, when Jackman was rehearsing all day and performing at night, exhaustion set in.

'We’d been told by a naturopath that you’ve got to make love every day for a 10-day period. I never thought I’d get to the point where I was like, “Deb, can I have a break?”’ He rests his chin on his hand, thoughtful. 'It’s very hard with IVF, there are a lot of emotions,’ says Jackman, who was giving his wife daily injections as part of the treatment. 'We did have a couple of miscarriages as well and those are very tough. When we adopted, all that seemed to melt away instantly.’

After finding the red tape impossible in Australia, they succeeded in adopting both their children in America. 'For Oscar we opted for open adoption because we thought it would be much easier to discuss the whole subject.’ Flouting the rules, they became friends with the birth mother, a young woman from Iowa, and attended Oscar’s delivery. 'It was exhilarating. I remember tears running out of my eyes in the happiest possible fashion.’ With Ava they chose closed adoption; both children are of mixed race.

A devoted father, Jackman worries about his children’s right to a private life. 'I tell them the truth: people see me in movies and want to know what I do at the weekend. They don’t really love me, I tell Oscar. Real love is what you and I have and will never go. The interest in me – the fame, the magazines – that will go. I don’t know when, but that means it’s not real.’

It’s this detachment that keeps Jackman so level-headed. A detachment cultivated, perhaps, from 15 years of daily meditation – since 1993 he has followed the School of Practical Philosophy, a mixture of religious beliefs and philosophies from Hinduism to Socrates. Under no illusions that Australia’s wave can crest for ever, he is already looking ahead to next year’s release of his own production of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the prequel to the X-Men series.

Later that day I catch up with Jackman at the photo shoot in a large warehouse studio. He greets me with a 'hello darling’ and a peck on the cheek. Then, without warning, peels off his black shirt. The stylists gasp audibly. I find myself manoeuvring out of the way: Jackman’s presence fills the entire space.

At the Australia press screening the audience break into spontaneous applause in the scene where Jackman, naked to the waist, is taking a shower, his gleaming upper torso covered in soap suds. Without a doubt, this is the HJ factor and with his no-frills Australian attitude, it must cut through the Hollywood artifice. 'Do you want a curtain?’ the photographer inquires as Jackman strips down to grey boxer underpants, his legs like a thoroughbred ready to sprint. 'Naah,’ he says. 'Don’t worry. I just drop my pants anywhere. I’m from the theatre.’

Australia is released on December 26

[LastSunrise1981]

Kind of a random question. But does anyone have Hugh Jackman's workout regime for the definition he worked with Wolverine? I noticed how in the trailer how lean and ripped he had gotten.

[Hooded Justice]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0640422/

Last time I checked, Dancing with the Stars was a show for pathetic has-beens to make pathetic attempts and pathetically fail at reviving their pathetic careers, and pathetic what's-his/her-names to make pathetic attempts and pathetically fail at raising their pathetic profiles.

Last time I checked, Hugh Jackman didn't need this s***.

[Raiden]

Well, if Jackman does it, I think it is because he thinks it's a fun thing to do, not because he's desperate or a has-been like other celebrities on the show.

[lou2099]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0640422/Last time I checked, Dancing with the Stars was a show for pathetic has-beens to make pathetic attempts and pathetically fail at reviving their pathetic careers, and pathetic what's-his/her-names to make pathetic attempts and pathetically fail at raising their pathetic profiles.
Last time I checked, Hugh Jackman didn't need this s***.Maybe Dougray Scott can be on the show?

[Hooded Justice]

Maybe Dougray Scott can be on the show?

Good idea.

[Sentinel X]

Perhaps he watches the show and think it would be fun to do :huh:
...I know Dancing with the Stars usually has has beens or even celebrities that never were...I personally hate the show...but you act like its a death sentence for his career, lol.

[Sawyer]

This thread is kind of unnecessary. It's not like Jackman is joining DWTS or has even mentioned doing it, its just the co-host saying that she would like to see him on the show... :huh:

[Hooded Justice]

Perhaps he watches the show and think it would be fun to do :huh:
...I know Dancing with the Stars usually has has beens or even celebrities that never were...I personally hate the show...but you act like its a death sentence for his career, lol.

No. What I'm saying is, anyone who has been on that show, their career has already died. So even the very concept of Jackman going on the show is ridiculous.

This thread is kind of unnecessary. It's not like Jackman is joining DWTS or has even mentioned doing it, its just the co-host saying that she would like to see him on the show... :huh:

The reason I set it up was just because I found it so laughable that the host of that sad show would even suggest that Hugh Jackman could go on it when, unlike everyone else on the show, he's still happy with his life.

[danoyse]

Oh, I hope not. But I doubt you'll see him on DWTS. That was just wishful thinking on the producers part. The show's got huge ratings and it would be fun to watch, but seriously...like he's got the time to spend weeks on a dance show? I think he's got enough going on with the Oscars next month, and Wolverine right after that.

If he's going to sing and dance, I'd rather see him back on Broadway. It's been almost 5 years already since The Boy From Oz ended!

[Hooded Justice]

Oh, I hope not. But I doubt you'll see him on DWTS. That was just wishful thinking on the producers part. The show's got huge ratings and it would be fun to watch, but seriously...like he's got the time to spend weeks on a dance show? I think he's got enough going on with the Oscars next month, and Wolverine right after that.

If he's going to sing and dance, I'd rather see him back on Broadway. It's been almost 5 years already since The Boy From Oz ended!

Are we EVER gonna see that Bill Bixby biopic he apparently wrote and wanted to star in and wanted Bryan Singer to direct?

[narrows101]

Are we EVER gonna see that Bill Bixby biopic he apparently wrote and wanted to star in and wanted Bryan Singer to direct?
Who knows if that's even still around - how many things do we read about that never happen?

I just want to know what the heck he's doing after the Oscars and Wolverine promotion - he dropped out of "Cleo" because of "scheduling conflicts" which I took to mean Wolverine promotion since the director wanted to start filming in April. I need to know what's next!! And something besides voicing "The Gardians of Ga'Hoole"!

And where's that movie musical Hugh? Everyone is doing one except the one that SHOULD BE!

[The Caped Knight]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2900/wolverinegroupep2.jpg

High-Res Wolverine cast photo shoot promo (http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2499/hjwolverinebigvp9.jpg)

[Bad Supe's Girl]

^^ I don't think I'll get tired of seeing this pic......... EVAH! ^^

:heart: :wow: *drool* :wow: :heart:

[narrows101]

Maybe he should wear that outfit for part of his Oscar hosting duties LOL.

[narrows101]

Entertainment Weekly magazine:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/th_OscarEW1.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/?action=view&current=OscarEW1.jpg)http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/th_OscarEW2.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/?action=view&current=OscarEW2.jpg)

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Entertainment Weekly magazine:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/th_OscarEW1.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/?action=view&current=OscarEW1.jpg)http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/th_OscarEW2.jpg (http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Magazines/?action=view&current=OscarEW2.jpg)

Thanks for that narrows... I enjoyed reading the article.

Looking forward to Februrary 22nd!

[Adrian89]

He's a really good Actor, I admire him.

Swordfish, X-Men Trilogy, Van Helsing, The Prestige say quite alot. Hugh FTW!

[ross2287]

I have a man-crush on him. :o

[Red Cherry Lips]

Maybe he should wear that outfit for part of his Oscar hosting duties LOL.

The ratings will go through the roof! *THUD!* :oldrazz:

[narrows101]

Barbara Walters announced on THE VIEW this morning that Hugh is going to be one of her guests on her annual Oscar special, along with Anne Hathaway, Mickey Rourke and the Jonas Bros.

[narrows101]

double post

[The Caped Knight]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine poster
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7177/wolverineposteral0.jpg

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Is that the real poster? :huh:

kinda boring and reminds me of X3 :(

[squeekness]

Yeah, I'm not as jazzed about that poster as I was the group shot. And not just because Gambit wasn't in it. :p I agree that it's kinda meh.

[Knightsaber Priss]

Is that the real poster? :huh:

kinda boring and reminds me of X3 :(

I like it.

[narrows101]

There was a memorial service for Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization on Broadway, and Hugh attended, emceed and sang. He was a good friend of Schoenfeld - Schoenfeld died in November, a day after he attended the "Australia" premiere!

Nice Wolverine story in this too.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20257928,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

Hugh Jackman Pays Tribute to Broadway Titan
By Stephen M. Silverman

Less than two weeks before he'll host the Feb. 22 Oscars, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, Hugh Jackman, on Monday emceed and performed at a loving, all-star tribute to the man Angela Lansbury, at the ceremony, said "represented the very, very best of Broadway" – Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld, who died last November at 84.

"Hey, you!" Jackman said was how Schoenfeld would always address him. Telling the handsome star that he'd already made enough money "with the claws" as the movies' Wolverine, Schoenfeld would then prod Jackman by saying, "It's time you came back to the theater."

Shubert shows overseen by Schoenfeld included such landmarks as A Chorus Line, Mama Mia!, Cats, Les Miserables, Equus and The Phantom of the Opera which, after 21 years, is still playing at the Majestic Theater, which was packed for Monday's Schoenfeld tribute.

During the two-hour memorial, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber introduced Betty Buckley, who sang "Memory," which she introduced Broadway's Cats in 1982.

Like a Proud Parent

Among others, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons also recalled Schoenfeld's powerful personality.

"I believed if I had said I didn't like the audience, Jerry would have changed it for me," said Irons.

Besides wanting to woo Jackman back to the theater, Schoenfeld would also stand in the wings several nights a week when the leading man was on Broadway in 2003, in the musical The Boy from Oz.

Recalling how Schoenfeld would watch the show and beam like a proud parent, Jackman said the chairman particularly liked the final musical number, "Once Before I Go."

Wolverine came back to the theater on Monday afternoon – and sang it once last time for Schoenfeld.

Here's an account from someone who was there:

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1684124

[narrows101]

Promo pic:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/02/11/hugh-jackman-oscars-promo-pic/

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/Oscars%202009/hugh-jackman-oscars-promo-pic.jpg

Video:

http://ontheredcarpet.typepad.com/ontheredcarpet/2009/02/oscars-host-hugh-jackman-has-his-game-plan-ready-for-the-big-night.html

[narrows101]

Sounds like Hugh may be on Oprah on Monday.

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-en-jackmanbox18-2009feb18,0,7823052.story
Hugh Jackman talks Oscar night
Jackman on his post-hosting plans, "The Dark Knight" and Aussie Oscar drinking games.
February 18, 2009

What are you going to do the day after the Oscars?
Go to the Urth Caffé for breakfast, do the Oprah show, and then go to Japan to open " Australia." I love Oprah. She was the first person to ring me when I got the job. She called and said, "Gayle and I are so excited we're jumping up and down."

What's the best Oscar party you've ever been to?
One thrown by Patrick Whitesell and Scott Stuber. It's the only real party I've been to in Hollywood. It didn't start until 2:30 a.m. You think, "I didn't think this kind of thing happened in Hollywood. I thought everyone was always working." I have images and stories to ruin careers.

Do you wish you had been in any of the nominated movies?
" Doubt." I loved that play and it was something I really wanted to do, but I'll never argue with any role that Philip Seymour Hoffman has gotten. I would have loved to have been in all the movies, except maybe "The Reader." Playing the teenager would have been a struggle.

Is there any movie you feel was overlooked this year?
"The Dark Knight." I was sad about that.

What's the biggest drag about sitting through the Oscars?
You get very hungry. I'll never forget Will Smith coming back from the Green Room during a commercial break loaded down with candy and water to hand out. It was like being in the playground, with people screaming, "Will! Will!"

What will you miss the most about not being able to watch the show at home?
Our Aussie drinking games. You pick either lawyer, agent, mom, dad or God, and whenever one of those names are thanked you take a shot. You get most drunk with "agent," followed by "God."

What are you going to ask for backstage?
Peppermint tea with lemon and room-temperature water for my voice. Three writers so we can bounce ideas around. And for my wife to come backstage when the show is done, so we can have a moment alone. She's my touchstone. If I die out there, she'll say, "Babe, I still love you," and if I thought I was great, she'll say, "Babe, you weren't great, but I still love you."

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-en-jackman18-2009feb18,0,6076482.story

Hugh Jackman prepares to host the Oscars
He sings, dances and acts on screen and stage. But can Hugh Jackman make this year's show a winner?
By Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
February 18, 2009

Reporting from New York -- Starting with the obvious -- that there is no actual superhero available for the job of rescuing the Oscars from its annually diminishing ratings -- Hugh Jackman's a solid second choice. He sings, he dances, he's hosted the Tony Awards and, after four turns as X-Men's Wolverine, he knows plenty about using brawn. And did we mention he's a sure bet in a tuxedo?

But if the weight of the world's movie-loving audience is bearing down on his wide shoulders, he seems delighted by the prospect.

"When I got the call asking if I'd do the show, I was in London doing press for 'Australia' and I had no idea my agent was even negotiating," remembers Jackman, pausing for coffee at a New York hotel between Oscar rehearsals. "I think there were 15 seconds of silence on my end, and then I hung up the phone and said to [my wife] Deb, 'You're about to get into bed with the next host of the Oscars!' She started jumping up and down on the bed, and then I was jumping up and down on the bed. I feel like I've arrived, but way, way before my time."

The 40-year-old actor, who claims to be a foreigner to stage fright, has been preparing ever since that December phone call. Back home here after a long stint in his native country filming both "Australia" and this summer's " X-Men Origins: Wolverine," he has been rehearsing up to six hours a day before flying out to L.A. this past Sunday for a final week of run-throughs.

In addition to working with a group of writers, he's doubled up on his regular once-a-week singing lessons -- and he's been working his speed dial.

"I rang Lorne Michaels for advice," he says, "And he said, ' Steve Martin's in the room, let me put you on speakerphone.' Martin rang me back another time as well. Then I rang Ricky Gervais, of whom I'm a massive fan, and told him I was looking for ideas and he said, 'No problem!' and started riffing with me. You can't believe how lovely people are being."

Even Whoopi Goldberg added her two cents: "I saw her yesterday and she said, 'Hugh, I've got to tell you, the first five or six minutes will be among the best of your life because there's so much energy there. Nobody's lost yet, and everyone's feeling celebrated. But after that, it gets really tough. They've lost; they've been in their dress for three hours; they haven't eaten. Enjoy the opening and then drive it home.' "

But for all of the comedic advice, Jackman -- who is coy about the contents of the show, citing the element of surprise as his only edge -- says he's not trying to measure up to his favorite host, Billy Crystal. "I hope I'm funny, but there's not the same pressure on me to be knocking 'em out," he insists. "I don't think anyone is expecting seven minutes of stand-up." Nor will he be tackling his adopted country's new government, saying, "There are a few political jokes floating around, but I'm not going to be the most controversial host they've ever had, that's for sure."

What he will cop to about his performance: He's responsible for an opening number and a section in the middle, and he will be taking advantage of his singing ability. So does that mean we can expect a rendition of " Slumdog Millionaire's" catchy "Jai Ho" on Sunday? He's still not saying.

As for whether he'll prove popular, "I think the real measure of being successful will be people saying afterward, 'That was a great Oscars,' rather than focusing on the host," Jackman says before beginning to laugh. "Of course, I'm probably saying that to take the pressure off myself. But as my wife said to me, 'Have fun. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. And I do mean once.' "

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

Aussie drinking game....... :lmao:

get most plastered by chosing agent then God :funny:

[MoPlaYa]

Anyone think the comedian Kirk Fox kinda looks like Hugh Jackman?

[Alexia Dark]

So, this thread is totally bumped due his complete and utter awesomeness and fantastic job hosting the Oscars (which featured many musicals, including my fav, much to my delight).

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Yes his first number was hillarious........
bvTZ_PVKNf0

I had to go to sleep 1/2 way through the oscars, but my cousin taped it for me, so i'll see the rest later :)

[Bim]

Hugh was BRILLIANT last night, i was very impressed with him. I knew he could sing and dance, but i was worried because the Oscars just tend to be boring as hell usually.

But last night's show? first time i watched from start to finish without changing the channel... congrats to Hugh!!:woot:

I really hope they bring him back in the future :yay:

[Alexia Dark]

There is nothing that man can't do.

Hugh Jackman for Jekyll & Hyde the Musical movie adaptation.

Screenplay written by me.

[ShadowBoxing]

Anyone think the comedian Kirk Fox kinda looks like Hugh Jackman?
No, but he looks like the young Clint Eastwood.

[Spider-X]

No, but he looks like the young Clint Eastwood.

LOL, wow...I was just about to post a picture to this affect! I have always thought this.

[Raiden]

Hugh was great as the Oscar host, but Oscar hosts nowadays have little hosting to do, and the presenters (and voice-over guy) stole much of the screentime. It's a good thing that Hugh did some musicals and really showcased his talents.

[PWN3R]

After last night my dude love for him went through the roof. :man crush:

[Two-Face]

Yes his first number was hillarious........
bvTZ_PVKNf0

I had to go to sleep 1/2 way through the oscars, but my cousin taped it for me, so i'll see the rest later :)



That was funny :funny:

[ShadowBoxing]

I definitely have a Hugh man-crush. He's very talented, but I felt like his talents were kind of wasted as host, or at least he never did much hosting so he didn't feel like a host, more like a performer.

[Two-Face]

He has great singing voice, I didn't notice before.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

He has great singing voice, I didn't notice before.
I've known that for years :p

[squeekness]

They said on the Today show this morning that some of the papers gave Hugh's performance last night a bad rating, but I thought he was fine. :) Anybody else hear this?

[Prison Mike]

I loved Hugh's performance last night. I can't stop watching that crazy dance he does when he sings about The Reader. lol

[PWN3R]

Especially the opening bit about TDK, "How can one billion dollars not be sophisticated?" Ahaha, love him.

[Prison Mike]

^yeah and he even mentioned Iron Man. I didn't know he was a fan of TDK. I just read that interview posted above.

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[Raiden]

^ Hathaway is gorgeous, and she has good chemistry with Jackman. Would be great if these two can star in a movie together.

[ShadowBoxing]

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[ShadowBoxing]

Although I respect him for being faithful and not marrying the best looking starlet he could find, I do find it highly amusing that this is Hugh Jackman's wife.
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[Hunter Rider]

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[Bad Supe's Girl]

Although I respect him for being faithful and not marrying the best looking starlet he could find, I do find it highly amusing that this is Hugh Jackman's wife.
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It's amazing how so in love they are and they've been together for 12 years. It also bothers me that people down his wife. She is much older than him but I think she's absolutely beautiful and aging well :)

[ShadowBoxing]

It's amazing how so in love they are and they've been together for 12 years. It also bothers me that people down his wife. She is much older than him but I think she's absolutely beautiful and aging well :)
People down his wife?!? Damn, that's one kinky marriage:hehe:

[Hypestyle]

was there a wolverine commercial during the Oscars show?

[Bad Supe's Girl]

was there a wolverine commercial during the Oscars show?
I don't remember seeing one... but I didn't watch to the very end of the Oscars.

[Prison Mike]

wow...yeah his wife looks a lot older than him. He must really be in love with her.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

wow...yeah his wife looks a lot older than him. He must really be in love with her.

oh yes... anytime someone asks him about his wife he makes a point to tell them how deeply in love he is with her.

[Ziggyman]

He was a great host yesterday...Kudos to him!

[Raiden]

Check out Jackman's fantastic opening here:

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And Anne Hathaway is amazing herself. She can really sing a tune!

[Warhammer]

Man, I am not going to lie, Hugh Jackman was simply amazing last night. He was the best host of the Oscars in a good minute. He has so much charisma.

:up:

[narrows101]

Those of us that have seen him "live" know what a consummate entertainer he is, how much charisma he has, and how he can "work a room." Name another entertainer these days that can sing, dance, act, and be charismatic. He was fantastic last night!

No Wolverine commercial, but I loved the homage to Wolverine he did at the end of his opening number - that was hysterical!

[Bad Supe's Girl]

Those of us that have seen him "live" know what a consummate entertainer he is, how much charisma he has, and how he can "work a room." Name another entertainer these days that can sing, dance, act, and be charismatic. He was fantastic last night!

No Wolverine commercial, but I loved the homage to Wolverine he did at the end of his opening number - that was hysterical!

I AM WOLVERRIIINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

lol :funny:

[danoyse]

Those of us that have seen him "live" know what a consummate entertainer he is, how much charisma he has, and how he can "work a room." Name another entertainer these days that can sing, dance, act, and be charismatic. He was fantastic last night!

No Wolverine commercial, but I loved the homage to Wolverine he did at the end of his opening number - that was hysterical!

Omg, that note he hit when he sang "WOLVERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!" :woot:

I thought he was great. He was having a blast up there - totally reminded me of when he was on Broadway (and we want him back!!).

Everyone at work was raving about him, and they loved the show. I told them a few of the ad-libs I saw him do in The Boy From Oz and they were just cracking up. He's such an amazing performer, I'm so glad he had a good show. :up:

[ShadowBoxing]

Man, I am not going to lie, Hugh Jackman was simply amazing last night. He was the best host of the Oscars in a good minute. He has so much charisma.

:up:
Eh, he is very talented, that much is obvious, but as a host he did nothing for me. He broke no new ground, wasn't very funny (although he didn't crack many jokes), and the whole show felt very downsized. The fact that the show itself was so lackluster didn't help his style of hosting. After watching his musical number, I didn't really feel like I needed to see him ever again throughout the entire show. The fact that he did more was great, but I grew pretty tired of watching essentially the same thing over and over again. Hugh is a great entertainer, yes, but he's an actor, not a comedian, he can't write (or at least didn't write anything for that show), and just seems like a pretty down to earth guy when he's not playing a role. It felt like watching someone's very talented Dad host. That show needed more though, it needed someone like Ben Stiller who pushed the envelope with his Phoenix impersonation, or someone like Stephen Colbert who could do some stand up routines lampooning current events and people in the crowd. Hugh would've been much better off as a performer in the ceremony than the actually host, of which he did very little. It didn't help that this year I had literally no reason to watch the show past Heath Ledger, and didn't give two craps about any of the other categories or movies that were nominated. With the writers strike, this has been a lackluster Oscar season and the show needed something more than the down to earth charm of Hugh to give it a shot in the arm.

Next time give the hosting honors to Tina Fey. She deserves it.

[Hunter Rider]

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[Hunter Rider]

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[Nivek]

i heard he didn't come off that great to the general audience. Are the oscar numbers in yet?

[narrows101]

i heard he didn't come off that great to the general audience. Are the oscar numbers in yet?

That's funny, since I heard the complete opposite.

The Oscar numbers are up - I've read one report that said 6% and another that said 13%.

[scifiwolf]

The initial number was 6%, but later yesterday Nielson released more accurate information, which was 13%.

"Oh, Nixon!"

[Bad Supe's Girl]

lol....... oh Nixon.......

[ShadowBoxing]

i heard he didn't come off that great to the general audience. Are the oscar numbers in yet?
I don't know what the official audience reaction, but the critics tore him apart -- called him a "cruise ship entertainer".

[squeekness]

was there a wolverine commercial during the Oscars show?Overseas there was. :)

[Prison Mike]

well as long as he did his job, which was to bring in more viewers, that's all that matters.

[danoyse]

I don't know what the official audience reaction, but the critics tore him apart -- called him a "cruise ship entertainer".

That was from the always-classy NY Post. :whatever:

There were some grouchy reviews out there, but he got a lot of very positive reviews too - the NY Times, Newsday, the Toronto Star, Roger Ebert raved about him.

The poll on Entertainment Weekly was 70% yes that he should be asked to do the show again, Newsday's poll showed him with 86% either "excellent" or "good".

The snarkiest review I read was from the LA Times, and the readers comments they posted today definitely showed a lot of people overwhelmingly disagreed.

The comments I've seen on the Oscar threads here seem pretty positive, everyone I work with raved about him (which I was really surprised to hear), and another board I read started a separate thread just for ladies to swoon over Hugh. It was still going as of last night. :cwink:

I would say he did well. :up:

[scifiwolf]

If it had been anyone other than Jackman, I might have hated the performance. But he really made it work. The guy is charming as Hell.

[Pyrox]

My guess is most of those reviews are coming from people who have been watching the Oscars for a long long time,
and were uncomfortable with it's new look/feel. Less stuffy, which I admit I wasn't a fan of at first either lol

[ShadowBoxing]

He might have done well in some people's opinions, but I highly, highly doubt he'll be asked back.

[Raiden]

That was from the always-classy NY Post. :whatever:

There were some grouchy reviews out there, but he got a lot of very positive reviews too - the NY Times, Newsday, the Toronto Star, Roger Ebert raved about him.

The poll on Entertainment Weekly was 70% yes that he should be asked to do the show again, Newsday's poll showed him with 86% either "excellent" or "good".

The snarkiest review I read was from the LA Times, and the readers comments they posted today definitely showed a lot of people overwhelmingly disagreed.

The comments I've seen on the Oscar threads here seem pretty positive, everyone I work with raved about him (which I was really surprised to hear), and another board I read started a separate thread just for ladies to swoon over Hugh. It was still going as of last night. :cwink:

I would say he did well. :up:

That's good to hear. Jackman has made this otherwise stuffy and overwinded award ceremony to become fun and entertaining to watch, and although Jackman doesn't crack any stupid jokes (he's not a comedian, after all), I found it refreshing because more often than not, the jokes were usually not very funny anyway. I think Jackman's professionism and charisma more than offset bored one-liners, and his musicals were way better than the ones produced by Academy Award in the past.

[scifiwolf]

Made the show watchable this year:

Hugh Jackman
Ben Stiller
Jack Black
James Franco
Seth Rogen
Will Smith

Honorable mention:
Anne Hathaway
Jennifer Aniston
Steve Martin

Best acceptances:
Phillippe Petit (Man on Wire)
Kunio Kato (Le Maison en Petits Cubes)

[danoyse]

He might have done well in some people's opinions, but I highly, highly doubt he'll be asked back.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was asked back. The ratings went up this year (although they were in the gutter last year), and people overall really seemed to like it, judging from all of the press I've seen. The LA Times appears to have been slammed with hate emails and an angry rebuttal column after their two snarky reviews yesterday.

Even Jon Stewart was poking fun at himself comparing Hugh to Barack Obama on the Daily Show last night. :lmao:

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[Raiden]

how nice of him! taking his mom to the Oscars :)

:funny:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

how nice of him! taking his mom to the Oscars :)

not funny :cmad:

[Two-Face]

I like Hugh Jackman, I wanna meet him. :up:

Jackman has a great singing voice as well as acting.

[ShadowBoxing]

I wouldn't be surprised if he was asked back. The ratings went up this year (although they were in the gutter last year), and people overall really seemed to like it, judging from all of the press I've seen. The LA Times appears to have been slammed with hate emails and an angry rebuttal column after their two snarky reviews yesterday.

Well, all the critics were pretty hard on him, I agreed more with the NYTimes that said he was the equivalent of a "value meal [at McDonald's]". It wasn't great, but it was consistent and he seemed like such a nice guy. In the end though if he was never asked back I really wouldn't care.

[narrows101]

Well, all the critics were pretty hard on him, I agreed more with the NYTimes that said he was the equivalent of a "value meal [at McDonald's]". It wasn't great, but it was consistent and he seemed like such a nice guy. In the end though if he was never asked back I really wouldn't care.

It depends on what you are reading - most of the ones that I read loved him as host.

[Sawyer]

how nice of him! taking his mom to the Oscars :)

That's....thats his wife isnt it? :csad:

I hope thats just a bad shot...

[Raiden]

That's....thats his wife isnt it? :csad:

I hope thats just a bad shot...

That's actually a better shot of his wife. :o

[LastSunrise1981]

Well, all the critics were pretty hard on him, I agreed more with the NYTimes that said he was the equivalent of a "value meal [at McDonald's]". It wasn't great, but it was consistent and he seemed like such a nice guy. In the end though if he was never asked back I really wouldn't care.

I wouldn't be surprised myself either. Don't get me wrong though, I like Hugh a lot. Looking back I just wish they hadn't casted him as Wolverine. Because of his status and the swooning women, they've turned the character of Wolverine into a sex symbol hearthrob. :csad:

But as a whole I don't view Hugh as great Academy Award Host material. I like the idea of them having different celebrities host the ceremony.

Other than of course Billy Crystal and Steve Martin, has there ever been a host recently that has hosted back to back ceremonies?

[danoyse]

Looking back I just wish they hadn't casted him as Wolverine. Because of his status and the swooning women, they've turned the character of Wolverine into a sex symbol hearthrob. :csad:


So are you saying that women shouldn't be allowed to enjoy the X-Men movies? That sounds incredibly sexist.

[LastSunrise1981]

So are you saying that women shouldn't be allowed to enjoy the X-Men movies? That sounds incredibly sexist.

Oh for the love of God, that is not what I meant.

What I meant is Hugh Jackman's status as a sex symbol and women swooning over him has turned the character of Wolverine into a hearthrob. Whenever someone mentions Wolverine it's always "Oh, he's so sexy".

Women and men alike have the right to like whatever they like. I just wish they hadn't turned the character into a teeny bopper. That's all. There wasn't an intent to insult anyone.

[squeekness]

Logan in the comics has always drawn women. He is probably the most popular character in fanfiction and most fics are written by girls. :)

[ShadowBoxing]

Logan in the comics has always drawn women. He is probably the most popular character in fanfiction and most fics are written by girls. :)
Logan has hardly "always drawn women", anyone with a passing knowledge of X-Men could tell you this. Initially, when Claremont and Wein were writing him he was downright repulsive. During the Phoenix Saga Jean Grey chews him out calling him "annoying", "obnoxious" and "a brat". It's no accident in this weeks New Avengers Spider-Man says "you've had sex?" in response to finding out Wolverine has a son. Wolverine didn't even have an official girlfriend in comics until the late 170s of Uncanny X-Men, and that turned out to be a dead end fairly quickly. Wolverine spent the bulk of his lifetime as a hero chasing after Jean Grey, unsuccessfully. For some reasons fan misconceptions led people to believe she actually reciprocated his advances...but she didn't.

[squeekness]

I meant female fans of comics, but he did get Mystique, Domino and various other women into bed. :D

[ShadowBoxing]

I meant female fans of comics, but he did get Mystique, Domino and various other women into bed. :D
That's been in the past year -- and it's a drastic rewriting of his character -- who used to get nobody into bed and palled around with preteen girls.

[squeekness]

Nope, he had Mystie a while ago before that. It was back in the Jubilee era. Jubes follows him to a motel and sees Jean come out of his room but it was really Mystique. Then later it got lame and Spiral kidnapped them and took them to Mojo world. Sumpthin' lame like that. This was in the early 90's maybe?

[danoyse]

Oh for the love of God, that is not what I meant.

What I meant is Hugh Jackman's status as a sex symbol and women swooning over him has turned the character of Wolverine into a hearthrob. Whenever someone mentions Wolverine it's always "Oh, he's so sexy".

Women and men alike have the right to like whatever they like. I just wish they hadn't turned the character into a teeny bopper. That's all. There wasn't an intent to insult anyone.

So now women are "teeny boppers"? :whatever:

But since he was basically unknown when he was cast, how did they know they were casting a "sex symbol"? I can't imagine women were the demographic they were shooting for when they first put the movie together.

Honestly, if we have to listen to male fans droning on and on about actresses "so hot it's unfair" in these movies, don't complain when we do the same thing right back.

I think you just have to learn to deal with it. :cwink:

[Pauluz]

Don't know if this has been posted but I thought it was a cool interview! He even admits he saw a celeb sextape! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swBBZR378A

[Red Cherry Lips]

Don't know if this has been posted but I thought it was a cool interview! He even admits he saw a celeb sextape! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swBBZR378A


BWahahaha!!! That was awesome! Thank you so much for posting that! Omg, I'm in tears!!! That last bit with the twenty bucks! http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q188/Anya7/2a9thxcjpg.gif:applaud

[squeekness]

That was hilarious. :p Wonder if George Clooney would take him up on the offer, LOL.

[Red Cherry Lips]

That was hilarious. :p Wonder if George Clooney would take him up on the offer, LOL.


Squeekness! Now you stirred up all kinds of lovely, hot visuals in my head!!! Oh man, what I'd give to see that action. :oldrazz:

[squeekness]

Rowr! :D :p fanfic!

[Red Cherry Lips]

Rowr! :D :p fanfic!

Hey, I just noticed your sig! I'll be sure to read some of your fic. Heaven help me if I ever wrote a fic about Hugh and George. Couldn't post it here that's fer sure. Hehehehe. :oldrazz:

[squeekness]

Wow, thanks. I hope you like it. :D :p

[narrows101]

You've GOT to watch these five videos! ROTFL!! After the Oscars he went to Japan to promote the release of "Australia" and appeared on this show.

http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html (mhtml:{3A30CD98-714F-4F6B-9353-70EBB6E27981}mid://00000091/!x-usc:http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html)

[Red Cherry Lips]

You've GOT to watch these five videos! ROTFL!! After the Oscars he went to Japan to promote the release of "Australia" and appeared on this show.

http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html (mhtml:{3A30CD98-714F-4F6B-9353-70EBB6E27981}mid://00000091/!x-usc:http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html)

It doesn't open. :(

[narrows101]

It doesn't open. :(

Try it again - I just clicked on the link and it works.

[Pauluz]

Doesn't work Narrows.

http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html

[narrows101]

Doesn't work Narrows.

http://japanjin.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugh-jackman-has-balls.html

Maybe it has something to do with regions since it totally works for me every time I click it.

Try this link and then click "more clips from this show here" and that will hopefully lead to the page you can't get. They are YouTube videos but I can't find them at YT. There are five altogether from the same show (this one is the second one) and the last one is totally worth it.

http://www.theblogofrecord.com/2009/03/07/hugh-jackman-on-japanese-tv/

[Pauluz]

I copied your previous link and went to it and it worked, which is why I posted it.

[narrows101]

I copied your previous link and went to it and it worked, which is why I posted it.

Oh I see now! Thanks.

[Bad Supe's Girl]

That was some crazy stuff :wow:

[Pyrox]

that link won't work for me either, but I can only assume you mean the ball-grabbing in this?

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[narrows101]

that link won't work for me either, but I can only assume you mean the ball-grabbing in this?

plmsAdVv4tE

Yes that was it - since I posted the original link it's now all over the web.

[Two-Face]

Hugh Jackman is just funny. :funny:

[Lightning Strykez!]

LOL I don't know what to make of that video. Asians copping a feel on American ballsage....what is the world coming to? :p

[danoyse]

LOL I don't know what to make of that video. Asians copping a feel on American ballsage....what is the world coming to? :p

I think you mean Australian.

That video was like a bizarre Lost in Translation sequel. :wow:

[Red Cherry Lips]

Yes that was it - since I posted the original link it's now all over the web.

What I love about Hugh is he gives, I imagine, 110% in almost everything he does in life. He's really got the whole package. :word::up:

[Red Cherry Lips]

I think you mean Australian.

That video was like a bizarre Lost in Translation sequel. :wow:

Good analogy! Man, that was hysterical!! Unlike Bob Harris, Hugh went all balls-out! Even I wasn't expecting him to go that mental. He really impressed them. :woot::hehe:


Btw, Lost in Translation is one of my favorite films. :heart:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

What I love about Hugh is he gives, I imagine, 110% in almost everything he does in life. He's really got the whole package. :word::up:

:funny: :p

[Red Cherry Lips]

*salivates* :p

[narrows101]

I guess that's Japanese comedy for you! A friend of mine more observant than me said that they were comedians, and each comedian came out and did something (there was one guy that came out and did his impression of a newborn pony). When Hugh came out he used parts of what everyone did to do his own intro. He did the kung fu, then the "big t*ts"
thing, and then the newborn pony. She said the one ball guy is the one that grabbed him. If you watch them in sequence, the show makes more sense and there were subtitles too.

When Hugh was on Oprah right before the Oscars and he told the story about her calling him to congratulate him, she asked where he was when she called. He said he was "backstage at some weird German show" promoting Australia. That was also on YouTube - if he thought THAT was weird (which it was), I wonder what he thinks about this which is so much weirder LOL?

[Bad Supe's Girl]

lol yeah I watched all of the videos and it makes MUCH more sense if you can see them all :p

[danoyse]

I watched all the videos too. The WTF look on his face for most of that segment was priceless.

[narrows101]

Hugh is on the Kid's Choice Awards on Nickeodeon this Saturday, March 28 at 8:00. Hope he gets slimed!

[narrows101]

Well - Hugh and Sandra Bullock presented an award together. When Hugh opened the case where the winner's name was - THEY GOT SLIMED! It was hysterical - got in his mouth and everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5p3becoBk

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[The Caped Knight]

From the Panels to the Screen: Hollywood drawn to comics

Wolverine - (6)
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9167/galcomicwolverine.jpg

Claws Celebre: Starring as the 'X-Men's' Wolverine made a star out of Hugh Jackman. But now the hairy mutant is ready for his closeup, in this summer's 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.

Credits: Marvel/Fox Studios

Published: 04/16/2009 16:10:20

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/galleries/hollywood_drawn_to_comic_books/hollywood_drawn_to_comic_books.html#ph5

[nathaniel]

I like Jackman he has a easy likable persona in interviews and seeing him absailing for British troops in the UK papers just cements this like. He is easily up there with the likes of Brad Pitt or Christian Bale but they will probably never do this, this isnt to say they are bad guys but it just seems the hollywood untouchable star stereotype just doesnt sit wih Jackman.

He is one of the hottest names around but seems very down to earth.

[danoyse]

Posted this already in the theater thread, but thought it was worth repeating here:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/129588-Hugh_Jackman_and_Daniel_Craig_to_Team_for_Broadway _Play

Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig to Team for Broadway Play

By Andrew Gans
and Kenneth Jones
27 May 2009

Two major Hollywood box-office draws will join forces in the fall for a new Broadway play.

The New York Post reports that Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Daniel Craig (James Bond) will co-star in Keith Huff's A Steady Rain.

No official announcement about the production has been made; however, should it come to pass the drama will likely be the hottest ticket of the fall season.

Barbara Broccoli, who was a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang producer, will produce the Broadway outing.

A Steady Rain tells of two seasoned cops whose lifelong friendship is severely tested when a seemingly routine domestic disturbance call results in the death of a young boy. When the horrific truth of the situation is revealed, one of the two must take the blame for the fatal mistake.

A Steady Rain would mark Craig's Broadway debut. His film credits include "Defiance," "Quantum of Solace," "Flashbacks of a Fool," "The Golden Compass," "The Invasion," "Casino Royale," "Infamous" and "Renaissance," among others.

Jackman, who was recently seen on screen in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," earned a Tony Award for his work in the Broadway musical The Boy From Oz. He is also known for his film roles in the "X-Men" trilogy, "Someone Like You," "Swordfish," "Kate and Leopold," "Van Helsing" and the recent "The Fountain" and "Happy Feet" (in voice). His stage credits also include Trevor Nunn's staging of Oklahoma! at Britian's National Theatre and award-winning work in productions of Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast in his homeland.

A Steady Rain played a six-week sold-out engagement at Chicago Dramatists in fall 2007. The cast and artistic team, headed by director Russ Tutterow, remained intact for the 2008 run at Chicago's Royal George Theater.
Playwright Keith Huff is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award, the Cunningham Prize, the John Gassner Award, the Berrilla Kerr Award, and three Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowships. He has developed plays at American Repertory Theater, The O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference, Steppenwolf, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, and The Public Theater. His plays have been produced nationally and Off-Broadway.

That's going to sell out in about 10 seconds. :wow:

[squeekness]

Too bad I don't go to see plays. :(

[danoyse]

For the two of them? I'd camp out in front of the box office for tickets to that. :woot:

[Bad Supe's Girl]

That'd be really neat to see :D

[Hunter Rider]

http://i29.tinypic.com/258xy6e.jpg

[luke1234]

nice

[terry78]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/video-captures-jackman-chiding-cell-phone-offender-ap

Somebody let their cell phone ring during Jackman's recent Broadway show. He didn't get pissed, but made a joke about it. Yet, after it kept ringing, he got a little perturbed. :o

[Raiden]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/video-captures-jackman-chiding-cell-phone-offender-ap

Somebody let their cell phone ring during Jackman's recent Broadway show. He didn't get pissed, but made a joke about it. Yet, after it kept ringing, he got a little perturbed. :o

The security should've escorted that guy out of the theatre imo; having the phone ring is one thing, but letting it ring continuously shows that that audience member clearly tried to interrupt the show intentionally.

[Taking Candy]

I get so pissed at people who leave their cell phone volume on during plays or movies, even vibrate is too loud sometimes. If you have something that important going on- you should put it on silent and check every so often or just not be there to begin with. Hugh handled it better than I probably would have.

[danoyse]

I'm seeing this show on Saturday - if someone's phone goes off near me, I swear I'm going to beat them to death with their own Playbill. :cmad:

This is actually the 3rd time it's happened - Daniel Craig stopped the show last weekend to tell someone to get their phone. A few weeks ago a woman showed up a half-hour late and was loudly complaining that she wasn't being seated. Hugh told her the same thing - if she had a better story than his, let's have it.

It's ridiculous, how hard is it to turn off your cell phone? It's a 90-minute play. They tell you before the show to turn them off. There's no excuse for the phone to go off. It happens more and more during shows these days and they're not the only actors to go off on them during a performance.

[terry78]

And the funny thing is whenever someone's phone goes off in a theatre and you say something, they look at you like you're the crazy one. And they're ready to get physical to defend it.

[Lightning Strykez!]

Is it just me or is Hugh Jackman like...refusing to age?

[danoyse]

I saw a woman flip out when she saw the sign about turning the phone off in the lobby before a show a few years ago - she was saying, "**** them! What if someone needs to reach me?!" I'm like, "What did you do before you had a phone??" :whatever:

I love how some articles are saying they broke character - unless Hugh and Daniel have been hiding Chicago accents from us all of these years, they stayed in character for the whole thing, which is pretty impressive.

A few people I know who've seen the show said it happened at the worst possible moment in the show too.

I've gotten 2 emails from Telecharge reminding me about the show's late seating policy. It's so sad that people need to be reminded of basic theater etiquette.

[danoyse]

Is it just me or is Hugh Jackman like...refusing to age?

Well, he is Wolverine after all. :oldrazz:

I can't wait to see this show - I get to see him and Daniel Craig for nearly 2 hours. I love it already. :up:

[Matt]

Well, since no one seems to have posted it, here's the video. I didn't even know about the incident until today when I saw it on Youtube.

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[Matt]

I get so pissed at people who leave their cell phone volume on during plays or movies, even vibrate is too loud sometimes. If you have something that important going on- you should put it on silent and check every so often or just not be there to begin with. Hugh handled it better than I probably would have.

I don't think vibrate is unreasonable. Sure, it may distract someone in a close proximity to you, but what if you have a child at home, or are a doctor on call, or something along those lines? Nothing worth putting your life on hold over, but a situation where an emergency can errupt?

[narrows101]

This was ALL OVER the internet last week - I must have gotten 100 pages of Google alerts on it. I think the problem was that it happened during a critical point in the play and it just ruined the moment! Hugh stayed IN CHARACTER when he did what he did. It probably also destroyed his concentration - people just don't understand that! It destroys the whole mood and can even throw off the actors.

It must have really bothered Hugh since he normally would never do something like that. He was recently on Oprah's radio show and was asked about it and he said you could tell it was in a bag and it was just ringing and ringing and ringing and he was at a key point in the play and he just thought he had to do something about it. One of the TMZ paps that follow him and his family around (even all the way to a pumpkin patch in Connecticut and even watched him pump gas!) asked him about it and he responded "it's live theater baby!"

I think it got so much play because no one expected someone like Hugh to do something like that.

Can't wait to see the show next week!

Video of opening night curtain call:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid8823576001?bctid=42709818001


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[Bim]

I don't think vibrate is unreasonable. Sure, it may distract someone in a close proximity to you, but what if you have a child at home, or are a doctor on call, or something along those lines? Nothing worth putting your life on hold over, but a situation where an emergency can errupt?
Setting the cellphone on vibration is the logical way to go. Letting it ring loudly is what i have issues with.

I really wish i was able to see this play :csad:

[danoyse]

I don't think vibrate is unreasonable. Sure, it may distract someone in a close proximity to you, but what if you have a child at home, or are a doctor on call, or something along those lines? Nothing worth putting your life on hold over, but a situation where an emergency can errupt?

The only bad part about vibrate is that when they check the phone everyone sees that light from the phone. It's annoying as hell in a movie theater, and it's even worse when you're at a live performance. I have mine on vibrate when I see shows, but I at least wait until intermission to check it.

Rock of Ages on Broadway has the funniest cellphone announcement - it actually uses language I can't repeat here.

I saw A Steady Rain this weekend, and the cell phone announcements are crazy now - they have a sign on the door, the ushers go up and down the aisles reminding people to turn them off, there's another announcement before the show starts. It's just sad that people have to be reminded so much of what should be basic theater etiquette.

And it was the worst possible scene in the show for the phone to go off. :cmad:

Fortunately no phones went off when I saw it, and it's a great show. Hugh plays an absolutely reckless Chicago cop (although ultimately he means well) and uses some language that would have made Wolverine blush, but he and Daniel Craig are just terrific together.

They're basically monologuing off each other for the whole show, and it starts really funny, but then it just goes darker and downhill from there, and it's really intense. It would make a great movie, and I hear that's in the works now too. :up:

[danoyse]

This was ALL OVER the internet last week - I must have gotten 100 pages of Google alerts on it. I think the problem was that it happened during a critical point in the play and it just ruined the moment! Hugh stayed IN CHARACTER when he did what he did. It probably also destroyed his concentration - people just don't understand that! It destroys the whole mood and can even throw off the actors.


Seriously! I can't say it enough that it was a terrible moment for a phone to go off. When I saw it, and Hugh started the "I can see his face..." line that you hear in the video, all I could think in the theater was "THIS IS WHEN THE *$*#%^* PHONE WENT OFF?!" :wow: :cmad:

And that line Craig has at the end of the video ("Denny took it hard,") is part of the show - but the audience laughs because it sounds like he's referring to the phone, but that's not what it was about it all and it really wrecked that scene.

A woman we spoke to in the theater said she wanted to bring a taser to zap anyone who lets their phone go off near her. The scary part was she didn't look like she was joking. :wow:

[dark_b]

Well, since no one seems to have posted it, here's the video. I didn't even know about the incident until today when I saw it on Youtube.

iE6OpSdtvz8bravo Hugh. you did the right thing. i like how you can see he is pissed yet its hugh jackman ''angry'' with a smile.

but he was like seconds away to go wolverine on the guy :hehe:

[terry78]

You just know he has those prop claws from the movies stashed in his jacket for "altercations."

[dark_b]

you know you f.... up when Jackman is angry at you.

[Jack Bauer]

You just know he has those prop claws from the movies stashed in his jacket for "altercations."
That made me laugh and cough at the same time. I wonder if he would pull a good old Bub as well.

[danoyse]

Considering the number of 4-letter words and wildly inappropriate name-calling his character uses in this show, I'm equally impressed he didn't use any of them during that incident. :up:

My favorite headline was on EW.com: it said "Attn Rude Theatergoes: Hugh Jackman Will Go Wolverine on Your ***" :funny:

[narrows101]

Here's a great 45 minute interview with Hugh by Katie Couric - the cellphone incident is mentioned, as well as Wolverine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5367326n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

[danoyse]

That was a great interview! And I love it when he said he's been listening to Bruce Springsteen before the show (Bruce is my favorite singer - I just saw him in concert for the 11th time last week). :yay:

[squeekness]

Here's a great 45 minute interview with Hugh by Katie Couric - the cellphone incident is mentioned, as well as Wolverine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5367326n&tag=contentMain;contentBodyThis was an interesting interview indeed. Makes me want to see the play, but we never go. :(

[danoyse]

This was an interesting interview indeed. Makes me want to see the play, but we never go. :(

You should definitely see it if you get the chance. Although I read a movie version is in the works too. Hopefully that will happen with both of them reprising their roles.

Some of the critics griped that they both seemed "too big" for such a small production, but I thought one of the cool things about it was that you had these two actors most well-known for action movies on stage having to tell a story that had a lot of stuff you'd find in an action/cop movie, rather than have all the flashy special effects to tell the story for them.

And the audience was really into it - there was some audible gasping at certain parts of the story.

[Bim]

Here's a great 45 minute interview with Hugh by Katie Couric - the cellphone incident is mentioned, as well as Wolverine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5367326n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
Thanks a bunch for this, very cool interview :woot:

[Doctor Jones]

Always loved how he can play the badass that Wolverine is yet he's one of the nicest guys ever.

[Raiden]

I like Hugh Jackman but X-Men Origin: Wolverine was a disappointment. If they are making a sequel I hope they will do a better job 2nd time around.

[squeekness]

They are supposed to be using the plotline from the Wolvie's first mini which really was a great story. Having such good base material can only lead to a good result, one would hope. :)

[danoyse]

According to the special features on the blu-ray, they wanted the spinoff to start with the Japan saga, but the studio wanted a prequel first.

I think that would have been cool if they'd used that alternate ending of X3 with Logan in the bar (instead of him hanging around at the school), then they could have just gone off to the Japan story with the solo film. But it wasn't meant to be. :csad:

[Swordmaster]

Not a fan of the Wolverine movie at all, save for a few scenes and Liev, but one of the scenes I did like was the Japan-credit tag, particularly the line 'Drinking to remember'. So if they can build from that, I should like the sequel.

So long as there are no more shots of him screaming to the heavens.

[katie_girl09]

I can always appreciate Hugh Jackman. :o

[Two-Face]

Wolverine movie wasn't that bad but maybe I haven't read any X-Men comics....

[katie_girl09]

Wolverine movie wasn't that bad but maybe I haven't read any X-Men comics....
I certainly didn't think it was as bad as a lot of the fanboys make it out to be.

[squeekness]

It will never be a masterpiece like Dark Knight or Star Trek (2009), but it was far from stinky. Most folks I know who saw it that know nothing of the comics, really enjoyed it. :)

[narrows101]

Len Wein reports on Twitter account that he's going to see A Steady Rain tonight as Hugh's guest - how nice of Hugh!

http://twitter.com/LenWein

Still in NYC. Going to see Hugh Jackman's show tonight as his guest.

[danoyse]

I liked it too. No masterpiece, but it's a fun movie.

I put the digital copy on my ipod, but the movie keeps freezing halfway through and going back to the beginning of the movie. Very annoying. :cmad:

When I saw A Steady Rain last weekend, I think the ladies sitting in front of me were big Hugh fans. After Hugh and Daniel finished their last curtain calls and left the stage, the one of them said "Oh, sing a song!" It was pretty funny.

[Doctor Jones]

Alot of women seem to love Hugh. My mom has a huge thing for him. I can see why though.

[danoyse]

Alot of women seem to love Hugh. My mom has a huge thing for him. I can see why though.

I took this from across the street after I saw A Steady Rain on Saturday (you can just barely make out the back of Hugh's head in the middle of the picture). I don't think there's a guy in that crowd. :oldrazz:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/PA030371.jpg

I've seen Hugh on Broadway 6 times now, he's adorable. :woot:

[narrows101]

Happy birthday Hugh!

Check out the pinata that someone gave him at the stage door:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/101209_jackman.jpg

[Bim]

:hehe: cool of him to accept it too.

[danoyse]

Wow, that's a little terrifying, actually. :wow: :oldrazz:

[narrows101]

I finally saw the play, and Hugh was AWESOME - and a little terrifying towards the end!!! Daniel was also great and the play itself was very good. At the end of the show, the woman in front of me, who had mentioned Boy from Oz earlier, said "what a terrific actor!" (Since she mentioned BFO I assume she was talking about Hugh). I heard a lot of people talking about Hugh - none really about Daniel - before the show started. I really wish I could go again!!!

[danoyse]

I'm dying to see it again, although it's utterly sold out except for the premium seats, so that doesn't look likely. I hope they make it into a movie.