Multi-topic interviews

[jo]

Jul 13, 2017 12:26:00 GMT -5 carouselkathy said:

How about a Broadway revival of MY FAIR LADY? I know he would rather do original work, but OKLAHOMA! was a revival.

Maybe because at that time when he auditioned for it, he was not yet "THE Hugh Jackman", as someone in the Oklahoma! RNT cast once called him ( maybe it was Josefina Gabrielle) as they remembered him for that yearlong stage stint.

After that and XMen ... and The Boy from Oz, he had the luxury of a lot more stage options

He did go to Vienna to view the new Stephen Schwartz musical SCHIKANEDER, but that could go a longer route before it can transfer to Broadway, if he ever agrees to the role.


Jo

[jo]

We have probably read this interview when it was current ( PAN promotion) -- but is an excellent summary of how Hugh Jackman likes to live his life as a family man --

www.news.com.au/news/hugh-jackman-talks-family-values-and-life-as-a-dad/news-story/05c61edeec2de8ecec6514d6ce8283c4

[jo]

An old one ( he was filming Van Helsing then, but before TBFO) but one of my favorites. Interview with Parkison ( a favorite with his Dad) -- this was longer but it looks like they cut off the first part ( which was also very enjoyable) --

[mamaleh]

That was such a good interview. Too bad the part about the long-haired Hugh likely looking like a "damn hippie" to his Dad was cut out, among other choice bits. Fun stuff.

Ellen

[hemma]

I liked the Jeff Probst interview for all the possible reasons but I noticed how close they sat to each other. It was almost as if two good friends chatted, ignoring the audience. It was a nice change of pace and he even "changed" some of his stories a little

[jo]

This is an old promotional appearance ( circa 2009) but it is a fun appearance on the Spanish TV show El Hormiguero.

www.20minutos.es/videos/television/biqzX126-hugh-jackman-baila-con-pablo-motos/

[jo]

Not an interview, but a promotional appearance for REAL STEEL in 2011 on French TV -- Wow, he is not so daring when it comes to Fallon and Degeneres

[jo]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hugh-jackman-the-greatest-showman-being-bullied-on-set-and-his-take-on-the-weinstein-scandal-3ckp2s3vs


Lengthy interview -- many personal insights shared by Hugh. It is less about THE GREATEST SHOWMAN than a friendly chat with a fellow human being:

Hugh Jackman: The Greatest Showman, being bullied on set and his take on the Weinstein scandal

The Hollywood star opens up to Polly Vernon


Hugh Jackman, 49
Reuters
The Times, December 30 2017, 12:01am

Hugh Jackman – razor sharp in a suit, 49 years old, glossy in a way only Hollywood people ever are, still ridiculously handsome – is being whirled between first-floor suites at Claridge’s hotel, meeting one journalist after another. Eventually, he is whirled in to meet me.

“Hugh, Polly … But you two already know each other,” announces his publicist, which is pushing it. We met, once, three and a half years ago when I interviewed Jackman for his 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past. He told me he thought actors are overpaid, that preventing his adopted son and daughter, Oscar (now 17) and Ava (now 12), from believing private jets are a normal part of life is one of his greatest challenges, and that police officers are less monogamous than movie stars. (My partner’s a cop, I’d told him, which is true. “Ooops! Sorry!” he’d said.)

The publicist leaves us. Jackman, renowned for his charm, makes a silent, delicate calculation, decides it would be more charming to be nice about not remembering me than it would to pretend he remembers, which he clearly does not.




Then: “I studied journalism, back in the day,” he tells me, as he settles his elegant body into the corporate upholstery on the armchair that faces mine. I know, I say; also that it was while studying journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney in the early Nineties that Jackman signed up for a drama course for extra credits, realised this was where his talents lay and abandoned journalistic ambition on the spot. He thinks that was for the best ultimately; not because the role of Logan/Wolverine in 2000’s first X-Men film would prove a break that propelled Jackman to international film star status, but because, “I wouldn’t have been good at trying to bring down a Supreme Court judge, or something like that.”

You don’t have to do that stuff if you’re a journalist, I say. You can just hang around in hotel rooms asking movie stars what they know about life.

“Do movie stars know a lot about life?” Jackman asks.
Some, I say. Does he?

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Jackman is touring the suites of Claridge’s today, promoting a new film. It’s his first since he officially ended his relationship with X-Men earlier this year, with Logan his swansong to the series. Jackman felt that after eight films and nearly two decades, he’d done as much with the character as could be done.



The Greatest Showman is a colossal departure from X-Men’s futuristic dystopianism, from Wolverine’s brooding, angry mutant adventuring. It’s a jolly, twinkly original musical, based on the life of PT Barnum, the American impresario and politician who began his career running a New York freak show in the 1840s. It has a substantial cast (Michelle Williams plays Barnum’s wife; Zac Ephron, his business partner; the pop star Zendaya, Barnum’s star-turn acrobat), yet it is unquestionably Jackman’s film. Jackman – whose considerable experience of musical theatre on Broadway has won him Tonys, and inspired some of the more persistent “secretly gay” rumours any straight actor ever endured – sings, dances and jazz-hands his way across moonlit rooftops every bit as deftly as he raged, glowered and slashed through American backwaters as Wolverine.



Is The Greatest Showman any good? It is shiny, good-hearted fun. Jackman is Jackman: eminently watchable, never not impressive, which certainly helps. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance before the film was even released. In the interest of producing a razzle-dazzle spectacular of a Christmas flick, though, it avoids moral quandaries over Barnum’s exploitation of bearded ladies, faked mermaid exhibits and so on, by conflating Victorian freak show principles with liberal, contemporary values on body politics and inclusivity.
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Jackman has said, in other interviews, that he thinks they “made the movie that Barnum would have liked to make”. I want to ask him if he thinks that’s OK; if we should portray real people according to their most narcissistic view of themselves, or if I’m being pious, or just plain daft, imposing modern moral judgments on a long-dead American. Instead, we’re talking about God.

When did Jackman give up on God, I ask. Jackman was raised in middle-class Sydney by British parents who were converted to Christianity by the evangelist Billy Graham after they moved to Australia in the late Sixties. When Jackman was eight, his mother, Grace, left Jackman and his two older brothers with his father, Chris, and moved back to the UK with Jackman’s two sisters. “I remember her with a towel around her head, and saying goodbye …” Jackman said during a 2012 TV interview. “I went off to school. When I came back, there was no one there, in the house. The next day, there was a telegram from England. Mum was there. And that was it.”


Jackman has said that he was 12 before he realised Grace wasn’t coming back. They’ve since reconciled, but still, I’d assumed Jackman would have given up on God, as a consequence of his Christian mother’s abandonment – or simply because rejecting our parents’ most rigid belief systems is the usual way of things.

He tells me that as a kid, “We were always in church,” that, “Everything was very formal, no elbows on the table …” and, “My dad never talked about feelings … or sex, or any of that stuff,” which is why, “I talk about mine all the time, so [my children] feel it’s OK to say, ‘Oh, I hate this. This acne drives me crazy…’ I just didn’t grow up in an atmosphere where you could talk about any of that stuff.”

But he says he really hasn’t given up on God. “I still call myself a Christian.” Furthermore, he doesn’t resent his father for his approach to parenting. “No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don’t resent him in any way, shape or form.” He’s described Chris as “my hero, my rock”, and said, “If there are any good qualities about me, it’s largely due to my dad.”
The Weinstein scandal is ‘shining a light that on some level everybody is involved’



His father has Alzheimer’s. In 2013, Jackman described him as being “fairly well into” the disease. Four years down the line, I ask Jackman how he is now. Jackman falters, turns away from me.

“My dad is … He’s … I can’t talk about it. I don’t really want to talk about it.” That’s fine, I say, and instead ask him something anodyne about what’s he’s learnt from his children, which he says is “a great question”. (Although it really isn’t, and nor is his answer: “Patience.”) It’s the first time in either experience of interviewing him that I’ve seen Jackman even remotely flustered by a question. Being endlessly open, fun, obliging and likable; charming the pants off every interviewer from Graham Norton to Jimmy Kimmel to me – that’s Jackman’s schtick.

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The first time I met him, I was embarrassingly bedazzled by Jackman. What a humble, fun, emotionally generous man, I thought. How well adjusted! How flatteringly interested he seems in me, but, oh! The way he talks about his wife, Deborra-lee Furness, whom he calls “Deb”, the actress and producer he met in 1995, on his first acting job when he was 26 and unknown, and she was 39 and a star. “The moment I realised I was really falling for her, I was horrified,” he told me, then. “I was like: cliché! My first job? The leading lady? I thought she was just going to go, ‘Ah! Sweet boy. Get out of here!’”

This time, I’m prepared. Less entranced when Jackman casually touches my upper arm – once, twice, three times – a gesture that isn’t flirtatious, but rather, designed to express reverence, the grooming instinct of the lesser ape. Less amused when he tells me how widely he wasn’t fancied as a young man. “I used to work at a gym, and I was the skinny guy at the gym. I was hired for the front desk, to make people feel really good about themselves. And – it’s terrible, I probably shouldn’t say – but they nicknamed me ‘Anna’, because they said my legs looked like I’ve got anorexia, right?”


When his publicist appears to tell us we have only ten more minutes to talk, and Jackman objects because, “We’re having a great time here! You can extend if you like? I’m having a good time. Clearly, it’s all about me, so …” I bristle, because of course his publicist isn’t going to give us any more time, and Jackman knows this. When he tells me he took the decision to ditch Logan in spite of it “not [being] an Aussie quality to leave the party at the right time, but it just feels like the right time, like, I’m on my way home right now, clearly had a few drinks and I’m not driving, and I’m going, ‘That was a great party.’ I’m not sitting in the car going, ‘Turn the car around, I’m missing that party!’ I feel like I’m really happy now to go home to bed,” I think: cute – but you’ve already used that metaphor on another journalist. I read it in your cuts. And if you’re regurgitating this one line on me, then how many others?




So his refusal to address his father’s illness is as interesting to me – an honest, raw shutting-down of an intrusive hack – as it is also desperately sad.

I ask about his reputation as the most charming man in Hollywood. Does he live up to it?

“It’s a bit like the Sexiest Man Alive title,” he says. (In 2008, People magazine awarded Jackman its Sexiest Man Alive accolade, which Jackman has – predictably – already dismissed as “a long time ago”, and feeling like “crap. I mean, ‘crap’ as in ‘BS’ … Because when I was 21, not one person said, ‘You know what? You’re the sexiest man on this street,’ let alone alive.”)

“It’s easy to live with. I do have very good manners, and that’s upbringing. It was drummed into me when I was young. My mum always said, ‘Everyone wants to be appreciated, every single person on the planet, so don’t forget that. Don’t assume that people are just doing a job, and say thank you, and look ’em in the eye …’ I’m not always the nicest guy on the planet. I have yelled. I have screamed, embarrassingly, ‘This is f***ing amateur hour!’ on a set. And if that had been caught on a tape, I would’ve looked like an arsehole.”




Now we’re cooking … I delve deeper. He tells me the last person he was mean to was Ava, his daughter. “It was a Sunday, and I was lazing around, I really was, and I said, ‘Babe, I need you to set the table,’ and she goes, ‘Well, what have you done all day? You just sit there all day. Like, Mum’s done the cooking and you’re watching football …’ And I got really angry, and it started with, ‘What do you mean, what have I done today? Well, what about this, and that?’ Then my voice started to ratchet up, and I could see my wife going, ‘Oh, this is a bit incommensurate …’ and it was a criticism that I couldn’t take on.”

Because you’re afraid you might actually be a lazy person? “Uh. Yeah. No. Well. I … Oh. I think you’re right. I hadn’t thought of that. I am one of those people. ‘Should have done more. Could have done more.’ With work, absolutely. Because I want to silence the critic in my head that will say, ‘Hmmm, you’re not going to be good in this. You haven’t done enough work. You should’ve done more. This other actor would’ve done more. You don’t work hard enough …’ That negative inner critic that, unfortunately, is a good recipe for overachieving, but not a great recipe for enjoying it while you do it.”


I wonder if that inner critic is perhaps harsher than the exterior ones.

“One hundred per cent.”

Does that mean he doesn’t care about reviews? “Oh, I do care! My dad said to me, when I told him I wanted to be an actor, ‘I’m worried that you’re too thin-skinned.’”

Was he right? “He’s right. Though actually I think all my idiosyncrasies and neurotic qualities are probably a great recipe for this business. What is it Bono says? ‘What kind of hole must there be in my heart, if I need 70,000 people to shout, ‘I love you!’ in unison?’”

Are you that bad?

“I don’t know if I need seventy thousand. Maybe forty.” Pause. “Thousand.” He laughs. “This is a really fun interview! Thank you!”




Don’t spoil it, Hugh, I think. But then he makes it better. “It is irresponsible to ignore the reviews. You try to be smart with them. There was one reviewer, I don’t want to tell you his name because I don’t want him to feel self-conscious, who’s written two things in two different theatre reviews about me, that I immediately went red when I read them …”

Red with anger? Shame? “Humiliation.”

Because he’s right?

“Yeah. I’d been found out. And one of them was on my one-man show [2011’s Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway], and he said, ‘All Hugh Jackman requires is that you love him loving you loving him.’ I had to read it about three times. I knew instantly what it meant, and then I was like, ‘Let me read that again. What does that mean?’, and it’s about approval. That was a hard thing, but actually I will later – I don’t want to be obsequious to him, in any way – but I will thank him.”

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Jackman is the first movie star I’ve interviewed since the Weinstein scandal erupted in October. I ask him if Hollywood is in turmoil as a result. He says it is.

“And for good reason. It’s shining a light in a really harsh and humiliating way that on some level everyone’s involved. Everybody is involved.”


I remember saying to one director, if you speak to me like that again, I may punch you

Was he involved? (I am aware, among other things, that Bryan Singer, director of the X-Men films, has faced lawsuits for sexual misconduct in the past, which were dismissed. The day after my interview with Jackman, a complaint is filed against Singer for an alleged sexual assault in 2003, an accusation that he denies.)

“Yeah. I think now we all have to go, ‘Hang on, I need to be more proactive …’ I think there’s often been, in the kind of way where a friend of yours is cheating on their husband, and you’re like, ‘I’m not going to say anything about that. This is my friend,’ and actually: no. I think we all need to be a little more on guard, watching what’s going on, protecting, and coming up with real practical solutions.”


I ask him if he has ever felt subject to any lecherous behaviour, and he says he hasn’t. “Although, bullying, in terms of directors …”

You’ve had that?

“I remember saying to – I don’t want to say who it is; I don’t think it’s helpful – but someone, and I was 30, so I wasn’t a kid, someone spoke to me, yelled at me in a way, and I pulled him aside, and I said, ‘Listen, never speak to me like that again. I don’t care who you are, or what job we’re doing, no one has ever spoken to me like that in my life, and if someone did that in a bar, probably I’d punch ’em. And if you speak to me like that again, I may punch you.’”
He brings up the rumours of his secret gayness without my asking, saying, “It’s no different from someone saying, ‘We know you’re secretly a New Zealander.’” And he brings up the issue of the 13-year age gap between him and Furness, again without my asking. “So they say, ‘Oh, Debs is older than you!’, and I’m like, ‘It did not matter to me. The numbers went out of the window.’ When you truly fall in love that way, Deb could be the headboard on that thing.” (He points to some upholstered boarding adorning the wall of the suite.) “I’m in love with the headboard on that thing! Everything else just fell away.”



Finally, I ask him what he’s afraid of.

“I remember being very fearful as a kid. Fearful of heights. I remember climbing, rock climbing, and I couldn’t make it up, crying, and everyone making fun of me, and I remember saying, ‘Yeah, you try, you try! You wait till you all try it!’ And one by one, every one of them went up … Humiliating. I hated missing out. I was the youngest of five kids growing up, but I didn’t want to miss out, and the fear I felt stopped me from so much I wanted to do. I was scared of rollercoasters. I was scared of the dark. I wouldn’t go into the house unless there was someone inside. Even when I was 12, I had to turn on every TV. I hated that feeling that I was trapped, that I felt trapped.” The amateur psychologist in me wonders how connected that was to Jackman’s mother having left.



Jackman’s publicist comes to reclaim him at the agreed time, having ignored his pleas for extensions, as she was meant to. He says goodbye, gets up and follows her, thanking me again for a “really, really great interview”. I feel validated, then bristle in case he doesn’t really mean it, then realise that my problem with the questionable legitimacy of Hugh Jackman’s charm is how much I want to believe the charming things he says. It’s about my ego, not his credibility.
He reaches the door of the suite. “Really great! You know, I think I told you seven things I’ve never told anyone else …”
Thanks, I say. Then, which seven?

But I’m too late. Hugh Jackman has already whirled off.


The Greatest Showman is out now

I had hoped that the interviewer would have asked him about his career after Wolverine -- how he thinks he is going to navigate a new fork down the road. I wonder if this journalist had even seen LOGAN and how that film has been a career-changing move for Hugh and a genre-changing turn for a movie that set up the landscape for the new and current box office kings? It's a bit on the gossipy side...and did not even touch on the long road for THE GREATEST SHOWMAN.


Jo

[ibtesam]

Hugh Jackman’s inside the actors studio interview


www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3tickW8nes

[jo]

Thanks -- that takes us back to the heady days of THE BOY FROM OZ!

There was another Hugh appearance on James Lipton's ACTORS STUDIO - not sure when that was.

Btw, Welcome to our Hugh chatterati group, ibtesam


Jo

[ibtesam]

Thanks for the welcome! And great forum.

[mamaleh]

Welcome, Ibtesam.

Thanks for posting that gem of an interview. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I truly think it was one of Lipton’s best ITAS segments, and of course lovely to see the “boy” aspect of THE BOY FROM OZ.

Ellen

[foxie]

Omg Hugh on The Talk Great!,,

[jo]

Thanks to Jackman'sLanding for the links to these interview ( translated from French) by French media --

www.facebook.com/JackmansLanding/photos/a.404651206279159.94721.388778624533084/1582766575134277/?type=3&theater


Interesting comments on his forthcoming movie ( The Front Runner), the current Hollywood environment, his outlook on his future as an actor.


Jo

[hughmanity]

A view-worthy interview, imo.

[jo]

Merci, hughmanity!

Hugh is always such an excellent person to interview - especially if the interviewer prepares well and do not ask the same tired old questions. In this case, he is able to delve deeper into Hugh's thoughts and motivations --and Hugh is always very accommodating even with deeply personal questions. Hugh is also a very deep person and even when the question could be a surprising one, he gives honest and thoughtful replies.

Re the question on the Jean Valjean role -- I hope the French ( who did not appreciate the film adaptation too much, via its box office response to the movie) later on took time to watch the video ( BluRay/DVD) because that is one of the most deeply moving portrayals from Hugh! And it is quite a signal appreciation of an actor's work when there are several key personages/roles with which he is now identified with as an actor - of course, there will always be Wolverine ( and later the slightly different Logan), then there was Jean Valjean, and now Barnum has been added among his memorable character portrayals! That speak so well of his talent and versatility! And we are talking only of the film art here.

Also, when you watch his interviews, Hugh gives us some deep insights from which we can also learn about ourselves. I never realized how true it is that often our gut instinct guides us even before we rationalize our actions/viewpoints mentally-speaking. His interviews also often validates his feelings about how important connecting to others or to an idea could be and that it makes us a more complete human being.


Jo

[njr]

Jan 25, 2018 15:42:03 GMT -5 hughmanity said:

A view-worthy interview, imo.

Says “Video Unavailable”

Nancy

[jo]

More insights from Hugh!

www.dailysabah.com/cinema/2018/01/27/hugh-jackman-actor-of-remarkable-versatility

Hugh Jackman: Actor of remarkable versatility
BARBAROS TAPAN
LOS ANGELES
Published
10 hours ago


An actor who has gained millions of fans around the world for his acting as well as great dancing, Hugh Jackman once again hit theaters around the world with his latest film, ‘The Greatest Showman'


After receiving his start in film and television in his native Australia, Hugh Jackman was catapulted to stardom as the edgy, violence-prone Wolverine in the blockbuster hit "X-Men" (2000), a role he reprised over the course of his career in sequels like "X2" (2003), "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006) and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (2009). In between, he earned critical acclaim for his performance in the romantic comedy "Kate & Leopold" (2001), played a computer-hacking criminal in the thriller "Swordfish" (2001) and cut down vampires as "Van Helsing" (2004). After starring in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" (2006) and Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" (2006), Jackman joined fellow Aussies Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann for the rather overblown romantic epic "Australia" (2008). A veteran of the musical stage, Jackman was a natural to host the Tony Awards and Academy Awards and star in the long-awaited adaptation of "Les Miserables" (2012). Thanks to his rugged charm and diversity of talent, Jackman capably alternated between great displays of theatricality and calculated reserve, while becoming one of Hollywood's favored leading men.


Daily Sabah: You did a great job with your latest, "The Greatest Showman." Obviously when people go to see this movie they're going to look at your character P.T. Barnum and say, "God, he really was a great showman." Could you tell us about your rehearsals for this movie, as the dance sequences are incredible?

Hugh Jackman: It was really a four-year process of workshopping, so we workshopped it in the way you should workshop a Broadway musical, which is you come together with whatever you had. It may have been four songs at the beginning, six songs the second time with the script that you had, and we would work with the best Broadway performers we could find and work for two weeks. When it came to the film we had 10 weeks of rehearsal. We rehearsed 10 hours every single day.


D.S.: In Oscar-winner "The Greatest Show on Earth," the story was all about P.T. Barnum. Did you watch that movie for your reference?

H.J.: No. I actually try not to watch those things. When I did "Les Miserables," there were five versions. I didn't watch them. I'm always a little worried that I'm going to somehow circumvent my instincts because once you see something or hear something you can get some great idea but it's like a shortcut to an answer. I believe as an actor you have to find the inspiration, find the character for you.


D.S.: When I see you singing and dancing, I feel there is something else coming out of your different energy.

H.J.: Thank you. Since I was five, I've been onstage. I don't ever remember it being like, Oh, I've got to get on it. It's going to sound really strange, but I always felt very comfortable on a stage. I always felt very much at home, sometimes more comfortable up there than offstage. Sometimes, I feel a connection with an audience onstage, with complete strangers that you rarely get in life. For me that's the magic of it. I've always loved it as an audience member to this day. If I'm onstage and I'm not onstage at the beginning of the thing, I always stand in the wings before I go on. I feel the specialness of that event. I want to feel like every night, this is the last time I'll ever do this. Something's going to happen tonight that could only happen tonight. That is the magic of theatre so you are right singing, dancing, doing a play. It does bring something out of me.


D.S.: Did you have a house that you were dreaming of like your character in the greatest showman when you were younger?

H.J.: My wife did. She was an actor who rented homes and stayed in hotels all her life so she had a book down to the taps, literally cut outs from magazines over 20 years, and that book was always with her. I was just hoping to pay the rent. I really didn't care. You can pretty much put me anywhere, I'll be happy.


D.S..: I heard your dad was a little worried when you told him you wanted to become an actor, as he thought you were too thin skinned. Were you a sensitive child?

H.J.: Yes, I'm still sensitive. I'm sensitive now. I told him I wanted to become an actor and he reacted, great, I think that's a smart choice, but I think you're too thin skinned. So, at the time, I felt like saying what are you talking about? I'm fine. I don't read a lot of reviews because I'm the type of personality that will only remember the bad ones, so I just do my best to try and be critical of my work since then. I found the best way to progress.


D.S.: But as an actor it must be hard to be judged all the time. How do you deal with that?

H.J.: Yes, it's hard, but I think all of us, no matter what, have to take some risks and do the thing we believe in. We come to terms with the fact that it's okay to fail sometimes, and I think what I've come to realize in life is that you actually don't regret failure if it was done for the right reason. Tell a story you really want to tell. This is one of those movies. It was also doing an original movie musical, which hadn't been done in 23 years, and I loved the challenge of that.


D.S.: How do you start your day? Do you meditate? How do you come up with this kind of energy?

H.J.: Coffee. My coffee. It's not too far from the truth. No, I always drink water first. I start with at least two bottles of that every day, then coffee. I usually work out, and then I meditate.


D.S.: We all have our own personal stories and what percentage would you say that you would change in your narrative of your own story throughout your life until now?

H.J.: I think, when I was younger, if I look back now, things mattered too much, like it just all seemed catastrophic. If a girl broke up with me, it was the end of the world. The final exam, if I don't pass, my life was over. I think I was a little too serious, and I missed out on a bunch of fun. I still had fun but if I look back, actually, I don't sit there going I wish I had done that differently. I spend time to try and fall still and create the narrative of today. Of course, there are events in my life I wish were different, and no one wants their parents to split up. But they also make you who you are, so I think it's more productive to think about creating the narrative of today, literally designing your day and that can be today.

[hughmanity]

Thats weird ..I will try reposting it as it's still up on Youtube

Jan 26, 2018 12:24:15 GMT -5 njr said:

Jan 25, 2018 15:42:03 GMT -5 hughmanity said:

A view-worthy interview, imo.

Says “Video Unavailable”

Nancy

[njr]

Thanks hughmanity, that one worked! Great interview!

Nancy

[jo]

From PEOPLE --

www.magtheweekly.com/detail/1589-hugh-jackman-on-love-family-his-journey

[jo]

More like multi-characters he has portrayed on screen

[hughmanity]

Here is the link to the GQ Australia interview.  It's great. 

www.gq.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/hugh-jackman/image-gallery/6d0c38d256402a5ffd78b5f106c7bf52?pos=19

[jo]

First -- Thanks, hughmanity, for the link.

Unfortunately, after I opened it, it did not stay open for me...and I had to go back to the original link. But, it wouldn't share the full interview anymore, unless I subscribe to the online publication.

Any chance you can reprint the full interview ( never mind the photos, just the text). If you are unable to --

Any chance if somebody else sees the link, to please reprint the full interview ( without the photos), if you can?


It looks very interesting, just for the first paragraph alone --

I'm enjoying acting more now than ever before. Because I feel excited about it. I feel at home on a stage and comfortable on film - which has taken a while to get to.

Thanks


Jo

[hughmanity]

Hi Jo--
Just woke up but have to get ready for work...will try later tonight unless someone else is able to!

May 30, 2018 1:46:45 GMT -5 jo said:

First -- Thanks, hughmanity, for the link.

Unfortunately, after I opened it, it did not stay open for me...and I had to go back to the original link. But, it wouldn't share the full interview anymore, unless I subscribe to the online publication.

Any chance you can reprint the full interview ( never mind the photos, just the text). If you are unable to --

Any chance if somebody else sees the link, to please reprint the full interview ( without the photos), if you can?


It looks very interesting, just for the first paragraph alone --

I'm enjoying acting more now than ever before. Because I feel excited about it. I feel at home on a stage and comfortable on film - which has taken a while to get to.

Thanks


Jo