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| | Hugh Jackman won't do Wolverine again: 'Great parts outgrow actors that play them' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos of Hugh Jackman over the weekend at the San Sebastian film festival where he received a lifetime achievement award. He was also on hand for the photocall and premiere of Prisoners. The movie has already done quite well stateside — it’s almost recouped its production budget after 10 days. The film is a hostage-centered crime drama, which sounds stressful to make as a movie. Hugh makes it quite clear that while the film wasn’t easy, he’s not about to jump back into mutant form just because that’s more fun. He claims he’s not up to doing Wolverine again at all. Except in the bedroom, perhaps? Here’s some excerpts from a couple of new Hugh interviews:
He’s a morning whippersnapper: “I?m a morning person. The beach reminds me of the beach in the Sydney. I woke up at 8:30 in the morning and I swam. Rode my bike. The moral is, if you want to be left alone in San Sebastian, wake up early.”
No more Wolverine for him: “Great parts always outgrow the actors that play them. If you forget that, it?s at your own peril. They are working on it [X-Men] now, and it would have to be very compelling for me to do it again. I?ve been doing it for 10 years.”
He might be talked into a cameo: “I have people ask me all the time, ‘Do you think Spider-Man can beat Wolverine?’ It’s part of the DNA. Marvel wanted me to do a cameo in the first Spider-Man, but I couldn’t find my suit. I could have turned up before it was such a big deal. But I don’t have that kind of power to make it happen.”
On being a sex symbol: “Here;s the thing. No one was looking at me when I was 16 thinking of me as the sexiest man alive. Why doesn?t it come when you need it, when you’re 20, 21? Not when you?ve been married for 15 years, and you wake up in the morning and say ?Hey baby,? and she says, ?Take out the garbage.’”
On Prisoners: “The job is to pretend as convincingly as you can. A lot of people think that means you have to dive into yourself, but I feel it’s diving into the people around you, the other actors and the director. And when I come home, I feel like I’ve played a game of rugby and have a bath and I’m fine. It is cathartic.”
[From Hollywood Reporter and The Guardian]
You know what this tells me? Unlike Johnny Depp (who’s running back with his scarfy tail between his legs to the Jack Sparrow role), Hugh truly has lasting power. He refuses to stagnate as an actor. Good for him. I don’t think Hugh was throwing shade any other actor with his comments. He’s just ready to move on, you know? I’d be tired of wearing sideburns after a decade too. Hopefully, he’ll never do another Baz Luhrman movie again either. That sh-t was insufferable.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
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| | Hugh Jackman Brings "Prisoners" to San Sebastian Film Festival | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Pitching in on promotions for his new flick "Prisoners" (now in theaters), Hugh Jackman attended the 61st San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain on Friday (September 27).
While rocking a casual ensemble, the "Wolverine" star stopped to enjoy a photo op with the crowd of fans waiting for him outside before heading into the Kursaal Palace.
Recently, the 44-year-old actor opened up to The Telegraph about his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and how much she and their children mean to him.
"Debs has strength and a lot of courage. She is very grounded," Mr. Jackman explained. "Our family matters more than anything - and I mean anything."
Hugh continued, "At the Oscars when i put my hand on my heart, that's a sign to Debs out there, a reminder that this is what matters and that all the rest - the awards and the money and the fame - may come and go."
"There'll be times when I'm flavor of the month, times when I'm not. But Debs and my kids are what matters to me," he added.
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| | Furry Hugh Jackman covers Town & Country: would you hit it, always & forever? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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“Always and forever” came to mind immediately when I saw this cover of Town & Country featuring the formidable Hugh Jackman. It also is the perfect way to describe Hugh’s relationship with his wife of 17 years, that lucky bitch Deborra-Lee Furness. I honestly don’t dislike Deborra-Lee despite how jealous I am of her. There’s something so sweet about her relationship with Hugh, and I can’t hear enough about the two of them. I love it when they talk about each other and when Deb humble brags about Hugh. They adore each other, and it comes across as genuine to me and not like they’re trying to prove anything. So that’s why I particularly enjoyed this interview. Here’s some of what they told Town & Country, with more at the source. The article is primarily a profile of Hugh and Deborra, and they only give a few good quotes:
On trying to wait 6 months to propose to Deborra but only lasting four
“I decided, I won’t ask her to marry me for six months. Then after four months I thought, That’s the most ridiculous rule!”
Deborra on her charity work
“I’m working with Americans to create an international campaign to shine a light on the fact that there are 153 million orphans in the world. If that were a country, it would be the ninth-largest in the world, just ahead of Russia.”
Deborra on if she likes Hugh with a beard
“I do. But I like him clean-shaven. But I like him all ways: chubby, muscley, skinny. I?m always having affairs. Don?t make that headline.”
[From Town & Country]
I like Hugh with a beard, but one that’s much more close cut than this. He definitely needs to shave his neck. That said, these are some sexy photos, right? I want to smack that hand, unless it’s Deborra’s hand, in which case I’ll grudgingly tolerate it. Damn that hand model.
Oh and Town & Country points out that Jackman earned $55 million last year, making him the third highest paid actor behind Robert Downey Jr. and Channing Tatum. He certainly earned it. The Wolverine cleaned up at the box office.
These are photos of Hugh in Japan on 8-27-13 (he shaved the beard!) and outside the Late Show on 7-23. Credit: WENN.com Magazine photos credit: Joe Puhliese/Town & Country
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| | Hugh Jackman on his crazy Wolverine diet: 'I worry I?ll have a heart attack' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hugh Jackman fans should ready themselves for an onslaught of Aussie goodness in the coming weeks as he prepares for the release of The Wolverine. As such, Hugh covers the August issue of Hugh Jackman, and I do adore Hugh, but this is one of the cheesiest covers he’s ever done, right? I mean, it’s par for the course with Good Housekeeping, but it’s still hilarious. The magazine hasn’t released any good excerpts yet, but they have revealed a few tidbits, including that Hugh’s “recipe for romance” is “surprise.” Hugh told the publication, “If I bring Deb flowers every Tuesday, yeah, it?s nice, but is it romantic? Especially when a couple has children, so much of life is about your routine.” Then he revealed how he once surprised Deborrah by pretending he wouldn’t be home until very late and then arriving home early from a film set to sweep her off to a lunch at their favorite restaurant. That’s sweet, and I’m sure it was a much appreciated gesture and just the right amount of spontaneity without throwing an entire day’s schedule out of whack.
Hugh’s also entered the press conference realm (he is shown below at NYC’s Mandarin Oriental hotel), and he sat down for an interview with the Mail while recently in Montreal. Hugh has previously spoken about how his mother abandoned him with he was 8 years old, and touches more upon the topic (as well as many others) here:
On the appeal of Wolverine: “Kids can relate to it. Every teenager feels murderous and marginalised — just like the mutants in X-Men. I was bullied by my big brother. Playing Wolverine makes me think how I used to fight with my brother. He used to call me poofter and sissy for being interested in dancing. And by the time he said there was nothing wrong with that, I was too old. I was 18 then.?
He was abandoned by his mother at age 8: “She saw me off to school wearing a towel round her head and when I came back she was gone. Two days later there was a telegram saying she was in England. It took me years to realise it wasn’t temporary. I?ve been reunited with Mum since. We see each other four or five times a year.”
Is he lowering himself with a comic-book character? “I find it interesting. If I didn?t I?d get out. I was given three pages of script. [My wife] read them and said, ‘There are words like *kerpow* here.’ She thought it was beneath me. I was working with Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre (playing Curly in the 1998 production of Oklahoma). It?s the only time my wife has ever been wrong — and you can quote me on that.”
He gained 25 pounds in 12 weeks for the role: “The problem is my height. I’m 6ft 2in and lean but in the books he?s 5ft 3in and stocky. Part of the bulking-up was to make me look squatter — more Mike Tyson than Hugh Jackman. He was a touchstone because he?s ruthless and has that Wolverine build.”
Never meet your idols: “I said, ‘Good day Mr Eastwood, Hugh Jackman.’ He said, ‘Yeah, I know.’ So I said, ‘I’ve been told I occasionally look like you in films.’ And Mr Eastwood replied, ‘You’re holding up the line, kid.’ Well, I still watch his movies for inspiration …”
The trials of wearing claws: “In my living room, I?d walk around wearing the claws, to get used to them. I?ve got scars on one leg, punctures through the cheek, on my forehead.” But he stuck at it. “No one apart from Sean Connery has been in so many films in the same franchise.”
On his Wolverine fitness plan: “I used to go to the gym and see these guys pumping iron and I thought they were idiots. In what situation could you need to bench 350lb? I never understood the addiction, it?s just painful. But that?s what I do to become Wolverine.” Worse is the diet. “It’s not good for me to eat 6,000 calories a day. I have to eat a dozen eggs every day. I worry I’ll have a heart attack.”
It’s not all bad: “I shouldn?t gripe so much about what I have to do to become Wolverine. One thing that is good about having the body I have is it makes you more physically imposing. People back away when you?re in a crowd and give you more space.”
What went wrong with Australia? “Dunno. Was it a failure? I?m really proud of it, an epic about my homeland. Fantastic! I loved working with Baz. I guess somehow it didn?t catch fire at the box office.”
[From Daily Mail]
Aww, I feel kind of bad about Hugh’s feelings on Australia. It’s not his fault that the movie was an overwrought mess with hardly any commercial appeal whatsoever. It must be pretty crushing (to both him and Nicole Kidman) to try and honor one’s homeland in an epic film only to have it come crashing down. I remember reading that Baz hadn’t even finished editing the film until a few days before it was set to hit theaters. Yikes.
You know what’s even crazier about the fact that Hugh had to regain all that weight to play Wolverine in this latest movie? Well, he also had a false alarm a few years ago when the movie was set to begin production in spring 2011, but Darren Aronofsky dropped out of the movie at the last moment. So the entire production was postponed for several months, and then Hugh had to go and regain all of that muscle yet another time. He also had to lose and regain more weight for Les Miserables too. Ouch.
Now for absolutely no reason at all, here are some photos of Hugh riding a scooter around NYC’s West Village on 5/13. He’s adorable.
Photos courtesy of Good Housekeeping and WENN
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| | Hugh Jackman: Media Duties in Manhattan | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making the most of his time in New York City, Hugh Jackman stepped out to promote his new movie ?The Wolverine? this morning (July 12).
The ?Les Miserables? star looked a bit preoccupied with his mobile phone as he carried a bottled beverage through a crowd of fans and shutterbugs en route to an appearance.
In a recent interview, Hugh explained the secret behind his seventeen-year marriage to Deborra-Lee Furness- ?From day one, we were best mates. We just clicked. We were giggling and laughing - we just connected.?
?Deb is the last one to bed and the first one up in the morning. You know those dolls that, when you lie them down, their eyes close? And as soon as they?re vertical, their eyes open? That?s Deb. It?s almost annoying. She has two speeds: Stop and Go. She is always, ?Let?s do this, let?s do that.? And she is very funny, very quick.?
?My number one rule for romance is surprise. If I bring Deb flowers every Tuesday, yeah, it?s nice, but is it romantic? Especially when a couple has children, so much of life is about your routine.?
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| | Hugh Jackman's wife talks about 'offensive' gay rumors that plague her marriage | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hugh Jackman has been married to his wife Deborrah for seventeen years now, yet some people still insist that he’s gay. Some people point towards their two adopted children as some form of evidence, yet they fail to recognize that Deborra suffered miscarriages before she and Hugh decided to open their home to kids who needed a family. The rumors of Hugh’s sexuality seem particularly cruel because I don’t think it’s an issue of people basing their judgment upon Hugh’s inherent ability to sing and dance like a boss. Instead, I think people are saying this because Deborra isn’t the typical stick-thin, over-Botoxed trophy wife that we’re used to seeing with movie stars. This is about people saying that she’s “not good enough” to be married to a hetero A-lister, so of course, she must be bearding. And that’s an awful thing for people to think.
For his part, Hugh doesn’t seem to be upset by people questioning his sexuality, but it matters a lot to him that the rumors upset his wife. In a 2008 interview, Deborra claimed that she often told people that Hugh wasn’t gay. In 2011, she seemed to indicate that the rumors affect her body image by adding, “heaven forbid I have a human experience and carry a little weight.” Last year, Hugh covered the matter while conducing his Les Miserables Oscar campaign by telling the Hollywood Reporter that the rumors bother Deb. Still, the buzzings persist, and now Hugh and Deb are talking to the press together:
Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness have hit out at the “stupid” and “offensive” rumours that the Wolverine star is gay.
In an interview with the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes, Jackman said he finds the persistent gossip “frustrating,” especially for his wife of 17 years.
“If I was [gay], I would be,” Jackman told the program in a candid 16-minute interview last night. “It’s to me not the most interesting thing about a person anyway, but I do get frustrated for Deb, because I see Deb go ‘Ah, this is crazy’.”
Jackman’s hit stage performance as Peter Allen in A Boy from Oz a decade ago appears to have shaped the Australian actor’s image and raised speculation that the marriage between Jackman, 44, and Furness, 57, was a “sham.”
“It is just wrong, it’s like, it’s a lie,” said Furness, sitting alongside her husband. “It’s just offensive. If he was gay, fine, he would say he’s gay. It has gotten so out of whack … it’s stupid, yeah, it’s annoying, because it’s not true.” Furness added that playing a psychopath does not make an actor a psychopath any more than playing a gay man makes an actor gay.
[From MSN News]
I can totally understand why the persistence of these rumors would upset Deborra because, like I said above, she’s taking it personally because people tend to point towards her physical appearance as indicative of Hugh’s sexual preference. She’s not saying that being gay is “stupid” or “offensive,” but she’s saying that people’s attitudes towards her marriage are both of those things. I’ll never understand why people have to be so nasty, and sadly, I think people will only gain more ammunition by the fact that she’s so plagued by these rumors.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
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| | Hugh Jackman covers Men's Fitness: 'it's easier for me to be polite than an a-hole' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hugh Jackman covers Men’s Fitness in a t-shirt, which is somewhat disappointing to me. However I know that Hugh Jackman shirtless photos occasionally come out, and that we’ll have lots of opportunities to admire his manly chest when Wolverine comes out at the end of next month. Maybe, if we’re lucky, he’ll do some frolicking beach candids as part of the lead-up. Here’s hoping! Also, Hugh fills out a t-shirt much better than meathead Joe Manganiello, who can’t act his way out of a paper bag. I was just reminded of that in the season premiere of True Blood. Someone needs to put those stupid methhead wolves out of their misery.
Getting back to Hugh, he’s gorgeous, he’s thoughtful, he’s polite, and he’s an all-around decent guy. He knows this too, and he explains it in a very matter-of-fact way, saying that it’s easier to be nice to someone than to tell them off. I’m going to try and keep this in mind in my day-to-day life, not that I have an anger issue but I will tell someone off for being rude. (Cutting in line is a pet issue of mine.)
On Dwayne Johnson?s fitness advice: ?He told me that if in a six-month period you want to put on 25 pounds of lean muscle and not fat, eat natural and eat 6,000 calories a day. There were times when I would literally eat with the mind set of working out. ?One more mouthful, one more, come on, come on, you?ve got to finish this meal!??
On being referred to as the Nicest Guy in Hollywood: ?As an actor, I?ve always believed that any label is your enemy. Look, I was brought up in a way where you treat people with respect. So it?s certainly easier for me to be polite and respectful to people than to be an asshole. Like, if I?m walking down the street with my family and the 29th person says, ?Hey man, can I get a photo?? for me to say, ?No photos, get f?ked?? for the next hour I?ll be thinking I shouldn?t have said that. Whereas, if I say either, ?Yeah, no problem,? or, ?Listen, I?m with my family now, but it?s nice to meet you,? then I move on, in a way it?s easier. It?s a mixture of that and also not being a wanker.?
On trying to be himself: ?I try to be myself as much as I can when I?m not acting, for better or worse, but I?ve had publicists who?ve told me it?s a bad idea: ?You move your hands too much, you did this too many times, you should do this, you shouldn?t talk about that.??
[From Men's Fitness via Just Jared]
I love him so much! I want to have Hugh’s babies and make whichever constant recipes he needs for his latest fad diets. I know he’s happily married and it’s not to be, but that just ads to the attraction for me. He is good, committed husband and father, and while Hugh is widely admired he just doesn’t get enough love. You know why that is? Because he’s not controversial. As he said, he’s just who he is and he doesn’t try to be anyone else. He’s a genuine person and that comes through in everything he does. Also, he better win an Oscar in the next handful of years.
Hugh is shown out in NY earlier this month. Credit: FameFlynet
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| | Hugh Jackman Steps Out at the G'Day USA Gala | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Ready for an evening out, Hugh Jackman attended the G'Day USA Black Tie Gala on Saturday (January 12) in Los Angeles at the JW Marriott at LA Live.
The 44-year-old Aussie hunk looked impeccable in a fitted tux and bow tie as he rubbed elbows with fellow stars such as Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, and Keith Urban.
2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the highly anticipated event, which celebrates Australians who have made significant contributions to their industries.
The talented actor has another big night ahead as he is nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role in the musical ?Les Miserables.?
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| | Hugh Jackman Brings Holiday Cheer to LAX Airport | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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In good spirits after a long flight, Hugh Jackman arrived at LAX airport in Los Angeles on Saturday (December 22).
The "Les Misrables" star looked handsome in a gray collared shirt, black leather jacket, and jeans as he smiled and laughed with an airport employee.
Having traveled all the way from Australia, Hugh seemed to be glowing from the time in his home country.
While Down Under, the 40-year-old actor attended the premiere of "Les Misrables" with co-star Russell Crowe, where they delighted fans by racing down the red carpet.
On Friday, he tweeted, "Great way to end the #LesMiserables press tour with a premiere back home in Australia with @russellcrowe and all my old mates. Loving life!!"
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| | Russell Crowe & Hugh Jackman Premiere 'Les Miserables' In Australia | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Back in their home country, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman showed up at the big Sydney, Australia premiere of their brand new flick ?Les Miserables? today (December 21).
The ?Gladiator? hunk and the ?X Men? star had a blast as they clowned around outside the State Theatre, gearing up for a sprint in their classic black tuxedos.
Hugh and Russell also showed some love to their director Tom Hooper before heading into the venue to have a look at their own on-screen handiwork.
?Les Miserables? has already received rave reviews the world over, and will hit theaters here in the States on Christmas Day.
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