Hugh Jackman and the Art of Acting

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Cliff Bleszinski
@therealcliffyb
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Dec 11
Ever think about what a badass Hugh Jackman is?

-Played Logan, got jacked nonstop for it
-Did Greatest Showman
-Prisoners = amazing movie
-Starred in the revival of The Music Man on Broadway

etc...

Guy's a fucking legend.



PastryKacer
@pastrykace
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Dec 11
Putting greatest showman up here and leaving out Les Miserables is rude



Cliff Bleszinski
@therealcliffyb
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Dec 11
That film adaptation was ruined by Russell Crowe



PastryKacer
@pastrykace
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Dec 11
Thats very fair I just think Hugh Jackmans performance in that movie is better than his in Greatest Showman




Cliff Bleszinski
@therealcliffyb
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Dec 11
It was more emotional, that's for sure. Kinda apples and oranges though.




PastryKacer
@pastrykace
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Dec 11
Definitely, ill take most excuses to watch Hugh preform so Im happy we get both




JoAB
@joab46466753
Definitely. He received an Oscar nomination for his interpretation of JeanValjean in LesMiserables! Excellent dramatic acting&singing on the story of a man from the literary work of Victor Hugo.This could have been his Oscar moment, had he won that year.
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Guiiii DiCastro 🍥
@marcos83_castro

o que o Hugh Jackman é animal na atuação, pqp

Translated from Portuguese by Google:

what an animal Hugh Jackman is in acting, because

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Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦
@kellyscaletta
Challenge! Name an actor or actress with two roles that are so completely different it's hard to believe it's the same person. I have two.

1. Bryan Cranston: Hal on Malcolm and Walter White in Breaking Bad.




JoAB
@joab46466753
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@kellyscaletta
Both showmen, but in very different ways: HughJackman as Barnum in Greatest Showman who brought mass entertainment to the masses ( via the circus) & Angier in The Prestige who liked creating magic but loved showing off to the public even more.




JoAB
@joab46466753
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Replying to
@grahamlikecrakr
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@kellyscaletta
HughJackman: Charmer Frank Tassone in Bad Education vs Angry dad Keller Dover in Prisoners.





JoAB
@joab46466753
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@kent_lind
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@kellyscaletta
Also, Hugh Jackman in LOGAN, who loved the people around him ( even his unrecognized daughter) and fought for them... vs Hugh Jackman as the selfish father in REAL STEEL who only thought of himself.

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I would say his Blackbeard role in Pan and Stan in Swordfish.

Nancy

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JoAB
@joab46466753
Hugh Jackman was in an amateur production of Paint Your Wagon in 1989.

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Why do people only want to box in certain talented actors.

Someone posted a tweet to the effect that said "Hugh Jackman is a tragic case". "He was presumably meant for musicals but was boxed in by superhero movies instead...and that, sadly, he was only able to do 2 film musicals (LesMis&Greatest Showman)" -- Sorry, I could not reproduce his original tweet as he has blocked me ...presumably after seeing my replies.


Here are my replies --

JoAB
@joab46466753
Musicals were a moribund genre when HughJackman started doing musicals on B'way. However, it was the fame & boxoffice clout from his superhero films which allowed him to test the musicals's appeal in Les Miserables&GShowman in the film markets. His talent&charisma did the rest!




JoAB
@joab46466753
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However, while HughJackman is a treasure w/ musicals, his acting portfolio is even more enriched by his dramatic movies. Logan/Prisoners/Prestige/Fountain/TheSon all feature strong characterizations from him. Even LesMis is a dramatic musical.




JoAB
@joab46466753
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And the occasional dark comedy ( like Bad Education or even Real Steel) - he has strong acting skills. Sadly, the
@theacademy
has not recognized his talent & range with an Oscar win! Film & Stage and multi-genres!




JoAB
@joab46466753
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One last note -- he has a degree in dramatic theatre, not in musical theatre. It just so happened that his first theatre pro job offer was in a stage musical(B&TBeast, as Gaston), then SunsetB... &Oklahoma! in London, where he was discovered by XMen producer LSDonner.




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JoAB
@joab46466753
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HJ was in a recent revival of a classic B'way musical called TheMusicMan, running for a year&was the season's biggest hit ( coming as it did in the closing year of the pandemic). If you ever get a chance to see him performing live, you would be surprised at his joy of performing!

Hugh Jackman is the best example of an actor with very strong acting and performing skills. It seems some would like to box him in instead. That is not easy to appreciate, given what we have seen of him.

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alvar
@dumboftheass
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a timothee le pasa como a hugh jackman, que los dos son theater kids pero les ha pasado que son guapos y no les suelen dar este tipo de papeles



JoAB
@joab46466753
HughJackman has a degree in dramatic theatre,not musical theatre. His 1st pro theatre job offers were in musicals,incl Oklahoma! w/c led to his Wolverine casting. His biggest acting strength is in drama(Prisoners/Prestige/Fountain/TheSon... Logan&LesMis, both dramatic in nature).





JoAB
@joab46466753
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@dumboftheass
HughJackman's theatre work on B'way included straight plays : ASteadyRain,w/ DanielCraig,where HJ was an alpha male rogue cop where a series of tragic events sent him into a physical&mental abyss&a JezButterworth play TheRiver, w/c posed the enigma of how to find the ideal woman.





JoAB
@joab46466753
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@joab46466753
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@dumboftheass
A Steady Rain, with Daniel Craig.







JoAB
@joab46466753
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Replying to
@joab46466753
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@dumboftheass
The River

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I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏'
@il0venostalgia
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WHICH ACTOR CRUSHED A ROLE SO HARD THAT NOBODY ELSE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE UP TO IT?




Mario
@mario_albertt1
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Not even a generational actor won’t come as close to Hugh’s performance




JoAB
@joab46466753
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HughJackman came to the role w/ a very strong acting background. He has a degree in dramatic theatre, allowing him to provide the right interpretation of Wolverine's unique characteristics. He also has a unique charisma that makes people sympathetic to how he acts out a role.

Many people mistakenly say that the physical characteristics of the comicbook Wolverine should be the correct template for the film. But Hugh Jackman, defying the physical attributes of the comicbook Wolverine ( short, brusque, not good-looking) introduced a film Wolverine that is a far cry, but making sure that he retained the wry, sarcastic, comedic and badass attributes. And people fell in love with his Wolverine, allowing him to interpret the role in all the movies of the franchise which required Wolverine's presence... He is even going to enter the MCU franchise presumably with the same acting persona.

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Muriel Siméon
@murielsimeon46
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I just sat down to have lunch a little while ago, and the news tells me that the most anticipated actor in the world in 2024 is a certain Mr Hugh Jackman ☺️😊 I wholeheartedly think that you deserve all this because you are a splendid man, a person I respect very much,...



JoAB
@joab46466753
Movie audiences have anticipated Hugh Jackman in his 2024 cinematic appearance. When will @theacademy
recognize his worth as an actor w/exceptional acting talent? B'way has given him a Tony, TV has awarded him an Emmy & the music world has given him a Grammy. When will an Oscar come?

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Doge Das 🌚🐐
@bhuvanesan_
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Hugh Jackman 🗿💥

JoAB
@joab46466753
Unique example! I did not think it would be both Hugh Jackman until I saw a photo of him personally having breakfast at a New Orleans place & sporting the X-24 look 😂

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈🩸🎬
@the_GM_is_God
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Some will say that Logan has Hugh Jackman’s best performance as Wolverine when in reality it’s actually this 11 second clip

Ben 🏳️‍🌈🩸🎬
@the_GM_is_God
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JoAB
@joab46466753
HughJackman's best acting moments in Wolverine movies, esp LOGAN,are not the angry outbursts but the tragic time when he was telling the dying Prof that it was not he who harmed him...& the beautiful moment of recognition of his daughter as he lay dying!Excellent dramatic acting!
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A good number seem to agree with the acting comment above.

Wizard of DevoZ
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HughJackman's best acting moments in Wolverine movies, esp LOGAN,are not the angry outbursts but the tragic time when he was telling the dying Prof that it was not he who harmed him...& the beautiful moment of recognition of his daughter as he lay dying!Excellent dramatic acting!

Glad to note that people agree that Hugh Jackman has excellent acting ability.

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Charles Bramesco
@intothecrevasse
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2h
This is a gender-flipped repeat of the Anne Hathaway stuff in the early '10s — someone with try-hard theater kid energy wants too badly to be praised, nothing more offensive to a certain yet pretty common personality type

kenzie xcx 🪽
@kenzvanunu
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21h
what did bradley cooper do to yall like lmao
S
@s11026608
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Misogyny 101. Hugh Jackman & Neil Patrick Harris are both theater kids, but they are never labeled as theater kids. Lea Michelle is a theater kid, but Zachary Levi isn’t a theater kid. Give me a break.



JoAB
@joab46466753
HughJackman came from dramatic theatre(his degree)not musical theatre.His acting skills are equally applicable to film(the medium by which he rose to fame)&stage(straight plays). Musicals happened to be his 1st pro job offer(Gaston-B&TBeast)for w/c he had to take singing lessons.




JoAB
@joab46466753
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Next musical was a dramatic musical(SunsetBlvd)w/c gave him a chance to work w/ TrevorNunn. Nunn then cast him in the London Oklahoma!, where he was discovered by XMen producer LSDonner. He was able to use his dramatic theatre background to prepare him for a career on film&stage.

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Evelyn Waughluigi
@matress_island
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13h
Easily the funniest thing about our cultural moment is we've spent 20 years forcing movie stars to take medically dangerous amounts of bovine growth hormones so they can act in adaptations of children's picture books

DiscussingFilm
@discussingfilm
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19h
Hugh Jackman training for his return as Wolverine in ‘DEADPOOL 3’.

In theaters on July 26.

Judah Warsky 💙
@judahwar
Funny, but sad too. We've been deprived of potentially great Hugh Jackman performances so he could go and play the wolverine in some piece of shit franchise. Anyone who's seen Prisoners knows what the man's capable of.




@joab46466753

One HughJackman degree is in dramatic theatre. To be an actor initially in the theatre & presumably in other performing art forms eventually. Says he's interested in travelling the road less taken, so the choice of different genres is not unusual. Best way to appreciate his talent!

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Judah Warsky 💙
@judahwar
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Funny, but sad too. We've been deprived of potentially great Hugh Jackman performances so he could go and play the wolverine in some piece of shit franchise. Anyone who's seen Prisoners knows what the man's capable of.



JoAB
@joab46466753
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One HughJackman degree is in dramatic theatre. To be an actor initially in the theatre&presumably in other performing art forms eventually. Says he's interested in travelling the road less taken,so the choice of different genres is not unusual. Best way to appreciate his talent!



Judah Warsky 💙
@judahwar
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1h
I'll admit I'm biased, I don't like sequels in general. To appreciate a good actor I wanna see him play different characters, not the same one in multiple movies.



JoAB
@joab46466753
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Wolverine is career-defining role. HJ range&versatility include many genres. Drama(Prisoners/Prestige/Fountain/TheSon), action(XMen/Logan),dark comedy(BadEducation/RealSteel), musicals(LesMis/GShowman),sci-fi(Reminiscence/Pan),romcom(Kate&leopold), biopics(FRunner/EddieTheEagle).



JoAB
@joab46466753
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Onstage(B&TBeast/SunsetB/Oklahoma!/Carousel Concert/TheBoyFromOz/
SteadyRain/BackOnBway/TheRiver/MusicMan). Concert tour(2019- across USA/Eur/Aus/NZ/ Canada/Mex). Hosted 1 Oscars/4 Tonys. Plus voiceover work in animated movies.
Which actor has shown a more varied career journey?



JoAB
@joab46466753
HJ stage work has not been seen by many due to accessibility.His work here further accentuates his ability to bring the joy of performing&the depth of drama to audiences. My favorite stage work is SteadyRain w/DanielCraig.HJ plays an alpha male rogue cop where tragedy befalls him



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Cassiel 🛡
@chrisc8989
It’s honestly quite sad that given the popularity of this post, the general public still thinks disciplined strength training with progressive overload, caloric cutting, high protein, and maybe creatine intake leading to Hugh Jackman’s physic; means he is “on steroids”. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Evelyn Waughluigi
@matress_island
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Easily the funniest thing about our cultural moment is we've spent 20 years forcing movie stars to take medically dangerous amounts of bovine growth hormones so they can act in adaptations of children's picture books twitter.com/DiscussingFilm…

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This clip has drawn 9.2 million views on Instagram & 1 million views on "X"/Twitter in only 24 hours!

It has spawned all the discussions on the physical training & implications that Hugh might need to prepare for the role of Wolverine.

http://instagram.com/p/C2Umu6fO9A1

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Emperor Norton
@ashleynaftule
If Hugh Jackman was born at the dawn of the 20th century, he'd be living his dream doing MGM musicals and tapping his ass off. But alas, born too late, he is condemned to become as veiny as a Steiner Brother to play the world's angriest Canadian
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JoAB
@joab46466753
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Ironically, HJ got a degree in dramatic theatre ( he wanted to be a serious actor, incl classical plays like Shakespeare). Served him well because he has delivered such acting gems as Prisoners/Prestige/Fountain/TheSon/BadEducation & even the dramatic musical LesMiserables 1/2



JoAB
@joab46466753
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He got into musicals as it was his 1st pro job offer -Gaston(B&TBeast)but told to get singing lessons.Then SunsetBlvd( directed byTNunn). Nunn would cast him in Oklahoma!(London)where he was discovered byXMen producerLSDonner (suggested him to replace ailing DScott as Wolverine)



JoAB
@joab46466753
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A few yrs later, he leveraged his Wolverine fame to get into B'way. His 1st effort(TheBoyFromOz) won him a Tony. On B'way - mix of musicals&drama(TBFO/SteadyRain w/DanielCraig/BackOnBway musical variety/TheRiver/TheMusicMan. Hosted the Tonys 4x (Emmy win). Also hosted 2009 Oscars




JoAB
@joab46466753
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His well-applauded hosting of the 2009 Oscars, still a key favorite of all Oscars hostings, using his triple-threat talent! It won an EMMY for the writers.
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Hugh Jackman's Opening Number: 81st Oscars (2009)
Hugh Jackman's opening number saluting Oscar-nominated films at the 81st Academy Awards.

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BThyle Kerns Thespian Society et al: All Welcomed
@bthyle
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Will we get another Hugh Jackman movie as a super hero. Or a serious musical where he must sing. Lets test his seriousness.




JoAB
@joab46466753
HughJackman defines "triple threat" in a unique way!
Action/musicals/drama! The new Wolverine film for action...his recent yearlong run of MusicMan on B'way for musical...and his most recent film The Son for drama! No indication of his new project yet beyond his film w/ Deadpool.

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There have been quite a few tweets/"X"posts claiming that Hugh Jackman only wants to be in a musical.

One of them --

not matt
@panasonicdx4500
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we don’t talk enough about how great it is that daniel craig was going to kill himself rather than keep getting paid $50 million dollars to make a bond movie every four years and then immediately told rian johnson that he wants to play the foghorn leghorn detective until he dies


SwordSaintMichael
@swordsaintmich1
He's one of those living the actor's dream, Hugh Jackman just wanted to make musicals and got stuck with being an angry dude but I'm glad he got some of those movies in so far

Craig is awesome in the role and I can say I would watch 100 of these films easy




JoAB
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HughJackman has a degree in dramatic theatre(not musical theatre)...to be a serious actor in the theatre& film. But his 1st pro job offer was in a stage musical. His range now however inclhudes drama( Prisoners/Prestige/Fountain/BEducation/TheSon &LesMis as a DRAMATIC musical).




JoAB
@joab46466753
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The range & versatility is impressive! Not only in drama but also action, dark comedy, sci-fi, romcom&musicals. On film and on stage. He has even taken both protagonist & antagonist roles. It also has something to do with his commanding presence on both movies & live theatre.

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I posted this quote on Hugh's Instagram/"X" photos showing him being cleaned up after completing one of his most major projects ( Deadpool & Wolverine) -- I hope he will read it:

“No actor ever feels as if he’s forever good. Even when he works well and knows it’s good, he feels tomorrow it won’t be. The actor has a built-in broken heart, which helps him to understand, but doesn’t help him win. There’s no actor who looks like a banker at the end of life. He looks distinguished, but not as if he’s won. The actor pays a price, and that price is his heart.” —Stella Adler

Stella Adler is one of the most famous acting teachers ever!

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In Hugh's case, the fact that he continues to seek roles in different genres and different types of roles seems to suggest that he believes excellence can only be reached with his personal intellectual curiosity approach to seek a role that continues to challenge.

I was lucky to have received a reply from him once...and it referred to his approach to acting.




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While watching Hugh Jackman sing Bring Him Home -- these thoughts come to mind:

Jan 31, 2024 19:44:00 GMT -5 jo said:

Hugh Jackman's acting portfolio has been remarkably marked by some of his best interpretations of what being a father meant!

*In Les Miserables, he discovers the epiphany of love through his newly-adopted daughter in "Suddenly". The same love would make him weary ( and jealous) that the young man Marius would take her away...but later on realizes that life without Marius would be devastating for his beloved daughter. He sings of his troubled mind... and later on pleads with God to spare the young man in Bring Him Home.

*In Prisoners, we see a father near-deranged when his daughter went missing. His desperation bordering on near-insanity reaches its peak in the hammer scene in the movie. But then we see his deep feelings at her loss... when he sees the bloodied sock of his daughter - his body trembles and tears well up in his eyes.


*In Logan, he discovers the love of a daughter and finds peace as he dies. The most beautiful dying scene in many a movie.

*In The Son, he is both a father and a son. He is desperate to help his adolescent son troubled by depression. He relives his own growing up experience with his selfish father. But he also did not realize that by trying not to act like his father he is not able to understand or appreciate what is leading his son to depression, that he himself has caused it when he makes him a child of divorce.

*In The Music Man, Harold Hill softens and draws out a young boy devastated by the loss of his father to a happier frame of mind, with the promise of a band that draws out the love of music & a spanking new uniform. But the most telling was the scene of the two gone fishing, as they whisper inanities to each other!


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Does Hugh Jackman bring luck and further fame to directors/auteurs he has worked with?


*Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain) - now an auteur for films with unusual subjects coupled with strong portrayals

*Chris Nolan (The Prestige) - even more famous now as an acclaimed director

*Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners) - another acclaimed auteur now

*Shawn Levy (Real Steel... soon Deadpool & Wolverine) - nominated for Best Director by the Directors Guild of America

*Cory Finley (Bad Education) - won an Emmy for the film as Best TV Movie




Already Oscar/Emmy/Tony winners when Hugh worked with them --

*Florian Zeller (The Son)

*Tom Hooper (Les Miserables)

*Jerry Zaks (The Music Man)


Hopefully, one of them or a new one will bring the luck to Hugh Jackman so he can be recognized with an Oscar!

Jo

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Charlie McAdam
@charliemcadam4

People hating on Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards saying he won’t fit the role… Hugh Jackman was a literal musical theatre performer doing musicals before wolverine and he’s the most iconic person to play any part in superhero movies



JoAB
@joab46466753
True, XMen producer LSDonner discovered HughJackman via Oklahoma! in London. But HJ is a dramatic theatre graduate(in addition to his journalism degree) so he has a keen appreciation of humanity &its stories which has served him well as an actor with range & versatility!
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